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Homogenize Your Low Range
In The Brass Gym authors and tuba virtuosi Sam Pilafian and Patrick Sheridan speak of the exercise they call “Schwarmaaaaaa!” as being excellent to “homogenize the sound you produce on your instrument.” It is a low range exercise, and in lessons this week I have found myself using this same term, as one big key to success on the horn is to homogenize your low range production. Besides warm-up exercises such as those in The Brass Gym I have other etudes that I am using with students, low range but mostly melodic and not too difficult. At some point I will collect these into a new publication. Until then there are many materials that will work, just keep with the goal of making a consistent sound in every range of the horn, especially in and out of the low range.
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