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Exercise PDF: Slurpies

PUBLISHED: September 12, 2008, Bruce Hembd

Smoothing out the bumps. Practicing in extremes – going “outside of the lines” – can help to sharpen up a problem area so that it becomes easier to manage. A previous post, “Pitch Benders,” touched on this concept with pitch-bending exercises and this new PDF download takes it a bit further. The main goal with [...]

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Exercise: Expansion Flow Study

PUBLISHED: September 1, 2008, Bruce Hembd

A long tone in disguise. This download is a PDF version of a long tone exercise which expands on a concept illustrated in a previous post; that a “flow study” may be perceived as a long tone exercise. It slowly expands range by interval with each set. View this basic PDF as a guideline and [...]

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Exercise: Pitch Benders

PUBLISHED: July 11, 2008, Bruce Hembd

Blurring the lines. As children we are told to “stay between the lines” – whether it is playing with crayons in coloring books or when instructed to follow rules and boundaries. When it comes to music however, sometimes it is a good thing to stretch these boundaries. Practicing extreme techniques can make performing regular tasks [...]

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Exercise for Till Eulenspiegel: Till the Cows Come Home

PUBLISHED: June 10, 2008, Bruce Hembd

An exercise for Till Eulenspiegel > Download Till Exercise PDF On practically every “high horn” audition – and even on some low horn auditions – the opening solo from Richard Strauss’ tone poem Till Eulenspiegel will be asked. For any aspiring orchestral player, this excerpt must be known backwards and forwards. Taking this literally, I [...]

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Exercise PDF: Buddha Lee

PUBLISHED: June 1, 2008, Bruce Hembd

A supercalifragilisticexpialidocious flexibility exercise. > Download the PDF Years ago when I was a student at Arizona State University, Tom Bacon showed me this superb flexibility exercise. In group practice sessions, he came up with the name “Buddha Lee” because when playing the exercise it aurally sounds like “buddah-lee-buddah-lee-buddah-lee,” and the name stuck. I am [...]

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