BREATHING
5 minutes
Follow the link below to buzzing 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 Buzzing Exercises
LONG TONE
10 minutes
Follow the link below to long tone 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 Long Tone Exercises
SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS
15 minutes
From memory, to be played tongued, with legato tonguing and staccato in the following keys:
- Bass clef: B, C, Db, D, Eb majors; B, C, C#, D, Eb minors (a twelfth)
All other keys, major and minor (two octaves) - Treble clef: Db, D, Eb, E, F majors; C#, D, Eb, E, F minors (a twelfth)
All other keys, major and minor (two octaves)
Scales: in the above keys (minors in both harmonic and melodic forms)
Chromatic Scales:
- Bass clef: starting on any note E–Bb (two octaves)
- Treble clef: starting on any note F#–C (two octaves)
Whole-Tone Scales:
- Bass clef: starting on A and Bb (two octaves
- Treble clef: starting on B and C (two octaves)
- Arpeggios: the common chords of the above keys for the ranges indicated
Arpeggios: the common chords of the above keys for the ranges indicated
Dominant Sevenths:
- Bass clef: in the keys of A, Bb, B, C, Db, D, and Eb (two octaves)
- Treble clef: in the keys of B, C, Db, D, Eb, E, and F (two octaves)
Diminished Sevenths:
- Bass clef: starting on G, Ab, and A (two octaves)
- Treble clef: starting on A, Bb, and B (two octaves)
Scale Requirements on page 9 of ABRSM Scales and Arpeggios
00:14:50
30 minutes
The most performed trombone concerto. It is often found on professional and university audition lists.
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