ARTICULATION
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 Articulation Exercises
FLEXIBILITY
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 Flexibility 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
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)
Exercises are found on page 9 of: ABRSM Scales and Arpeggios
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