Hey everyone, here is the homework for this week! Susan: Really focus on your sound this week. Start your practice sessions with a long warm-up, whether it be a chromatic scale or register slurs. Make sure you are always pushing the sound in the upper register. Keep working on your tonguing exercise in all registers of the clarinet. Half notes, [...]

Hey everyone, here is the homework for this week! Jonathan: The app we discussed is iReal Pro and you can buy it off the App Store. Once you have done so, you'll need to go onto the forums, find the jazz forum and download the "Jazz 1300" package. Then, you will be able to access all the songs. Make sure [...]

Hey everyone, here is the homework for this week. Nancy: http://www.clarinet-tips.com/breathing-exercises.html Here is a link with some breathing tips/exercises. Remember, before you practice "long tones" try breathing in for as long as you are planning on holding the note. Work on the fingerings we discussed in our lesson (Bb to E I believe). Remember to make sure your embouchure isn't [...]

Hey everyone, here is the homework for this week. I am really looking forward to a new year of lessons with you all! Helen: http://guybbrownmusic.weebly.com/uploads/2/6/2/1/26218452/saxophone_fingering_chart.jpg Here is a link to a saxophone fingering chart. Check it out, and try to familiarize yourself with the fingerings/names of notes we worked on. The name of the metronome app I use is "Pro Metronome". [...]

Hey everyone, here is the homework for this week: Susan: Keep working through your twelve major scales. Remember - be honest with yourself! If you are not able to play them consistently and accurately with the metronome, slow down the speed. Try to work on evenness with your eighth notes; they should all sound the same. Remember to subdivide in [...]

Hey everyone, here is the homework for this week: Aubrey: Start off your practice sessions as you were before, with a chromatic scale with the metronome on 60-70, holding each note for four beats. Review your C, F and G major scales and arpeggios w/ metronome, tongued going up and slurred going down. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ve3uJxMiIDw Here's a nice version of "Everything [...]

Hi everyone, here is the homework for this week. Thank you for a great semester of lessons, and I look forward to teaching you guys in the months to come :) Jonathan: When warming up/practicing your chromatic scale, add in the new approach where you start as softly as possible, crescendo, and then decrescendo until the note ends. Hold out [...]

Hi everyone, here is the homework for this week. Jonathan: Info on where I'm playing: Poetry Jazz Cafe in Kensington Market from 4-7 this Sunday :) Keep working on your chromatic scale; remember to focus this time on coming down the scale. Remember to tongue all scales coming up, and slur them coming down. If notes are slurred, they are [...]

Hi everyone, Here is the homework for this week. Jonathan: - The name of the venue I'm playing at Sunday is Poetry Jazz Cafe in Kensington Market. I will be there from 4-7 :) - Keep working on your chromatic and C, G and F major scales. Make sure to leave no space in between the notes (even if you [...]