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  • Trumpet Practice 01/06/25

    Warmed up with mouthpiece sirens, then 22 beat long tones at 60BPM, C down to F# chromatically. Bend exercise then Stamps followed. Noticing much better air/breath control. Practicing with Shhhhhmute so tonal improvements are difficult to ascertain at this point, but things feel better. Also did chromatic lip slur exercise (C, G, F#, B…, G, C, B, F#…). After this took the flow study I’ve been working on at 76bpm. Made it to all but the last passage without error. Will run that passage more then try this study at 80bpm next week. Concluded this session running the first Minuetto again. I do not yet quite have the chops to get through this, but it is sounding smoother and smoother. Warmed down with long tones and pedal tones.

    I want to get back to being able to play the Takemitsu Paths. I want to revisit my paper on the piece as well. I also would like to get to a point where I can start composing more weather pieces for the trumpet.

  • Trumpet Practice 12/30/24

    Started with mouthpiece sirens on Yamaha 14B4, a 7C equivalent, then did long tones, 20 beats at 60bpm, C down to F#. Followed with Stamps, then down bends exercise, half-step followed by whole-step.

    After warming up, did Flow study A on page 5 of the Trumpet Lyrical and Flow studies collection, attempted at 72bpm. This went fairly well until the final passage, spent some time going over that. After some practice was able to make it all the way through the etude, but was definitely running out of physical steam.

    Completed practice session playing through Bach’s Minuetto I from the Cello Suite. It’s marked at Moderato, but even at 108bpm it feels rather fast, both for my current abilities, and for the piece itself. Ended up being unable to play through it, reached failure point for embouchure. Warmed down with pedal tones.