BREATHING
5 minutes
Follow the link below to articulation exercise videos. Choose one appropriate to your level and practice with it. In your next session, choose something else that looks interesting. Eventually, you will build your own practice routine with your favorite practice videos.
♦ Focused Breathing Exercises
RANGE
10 minutes
Follow the link below to flexibility exercise videos. Choose one appropriate to your level and practice with it. In your next session, choose something else that looks interesting. Eventually, you will build your own practice routine with your favorite practice videos.
♦ Focused Range Exercises
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Option 1: 30 minutes
Play along with these recordings of these etudes from Melodious Etudes for Trombone.
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Option 2: 30 Minutes
Play along with these recordings
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From memory, to be played both tongued and with legato tonguing in the following keys:
- Bass clef: Bb, C majors; Bb, C# minors (a twelfth)
E, Ab majors; F# minor (two octaves) - Treble clef: C, D majors; C, Eb minors (a twelfth)
F#, Bb majors; G# minor (two octaves)
Scales: in the above keys (minors in both harmonic and melodic forms)
Chromatic Scales:
- Bass clef: starting on G and Ab (two octaves)
- Treble clef: starting on A and Bb (two octaves)
Arpeggios: the common chords of the above keys for the ranges indicated
Dominant Seventh:
- Bass clef: in the key of C (two octaves)
- Treble clef: in the key of D (two octaves)
Diminished Seventh:
- Bass clef: starting on F (two octaves)
- Treble clef: starting on G (two octaves)
Exercises correspond to ABRSM Scales and Arpeggios page 9.
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