This Week - 2nd February
Friday 22nd May (it's a bit late I know - took longer than I expected...)
Ronde
- Work slowly and practice it bit by bit.
- Learn the rhythms first.
- Practice the tricky bits
- Follow the tutorial video. Keep pausing to practice, don't try to do it all at once!
- Can you play it all the way through without the letters?
- When you can play it slowly and neatly, start speeding up!
- Record yourself in BandLab - more information here.
Friday 22nd May (it's a bit late I know - took longer than I expected...)
Ronde
- Work slowly and practice it bit by bit.
- Learn the rhythms first.
- Practice the tricky bits
- Follow the tutorial video. Keep pausing to practice, don't try to do it all at once!
- Can you play it all the way through without the letters?
- When you can play it slowly and neatly, start speeding up!
- Record yourself in BandLab - more information here.
Friday 22nd May (it's a bit late I know - took longer than I expected...)
Ronde
- Work slowly and practice it bit by bit.
- Learn the rhythms first.
- Practice the tricky bits
- Follow the tutorial video. Keep pausing to practice, don't try to do it all at once!
- Can you play it all the way through without the letters?
- When you can play it slowly and neatly, start speeding up!
- Record yourself in BandLab - more information here.
1. Hand position
1. Hand position
1. Hand position
2. First 3 notes: G A B
2. First 3 notes: G A B
2. First 3 notes: G A B
This Week - 18th January / 22nd January
This Week - 26th January
This Week - 26th January
This Week - 26th January
This Week - 26th January
3. Tonguing
3. Tonguing
3. Tonguing
4. Changing notes
4. Changing notes
4. Changing notes
Brecknock & Torriano
Primary Federation
Camden Youth
Recorder Group
Coleridge Primary
Orchestra
Fleet Primary
Brass
Brass - warming up
It's important to warm up properly before you start practising. If you don't you'll most likely find you get tired very quickly and may find it hard to play next day. Different players warm up in different ways. Some people use the same warm up every day, some prefer to vary it so they don't get bored.
1.Breathing
No instrument required!
Nearly everyone agrees that it's not a good idea to play too high or too loud at the start of your practice session.
It's best to start without your instrument - some breathing, some buzzing, some time with just your mouthpiece.
These are also good things to do if you haven't got your instrument with you (left it at school / on holiday) or can't make lots of noise.
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2.Buzzing with lips
Some quick exercises to get your lips vibrating before you start
playing your instrument.
Pause the video between exercises and have a go on your own.
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3.Buzzing with mouthpiece
Pause the video between exercises and have a go on your own.
The same exercises with just your mouth-piece.
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4. Copying
This is how we normally start lessons in school.
Listen to and watch the trumpet and trombone in the video and try to copy what they play straight afterwards, in time with the metronome. Use your ears and your eyes to start with, but when you can do this easily, try without watching the video, just by listening:
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The trumpet plays through the right speaker or headphone, the trombone through the left.
If you have a balance control you can turn it all the way to one side and listen to your own instrument on its own.
5. Copying & Reading
Trumpet warm up
These are the same exercises as in the copying video, but with the notation. Don't do both every day, it'll get boring! Maybe alternate them.
Both are good for your ears, eyes and lips!
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Trombone warm up