Author: TonkaToy
Date: 2005-08-04 21:12
1. Long Tones
Each day I start with 3 octave dominant 7th chords beginning on low E and continuing to the 1st line Eflat. (I do three octaves up to the C chord and then 2 octaves on Dflat, D, and Eflat)
While doing the long tones I'm thinking about several things; a centered beautiful tone, a firm and relaxed embrochure, and most importantly, connectivity between notes. My primary teacher was a Bonade student and silky legato, playing "through the notes", and a minimum of finger noise was something that was fundemental in his teaching.
Also, I try not to rush through this portion of my warm up. If I'm not satisfied with the connection between two notes or the timbre or volume between the two doesn't match to my satisfaction I'll work on it a while so that I can live with it.
2. Scales
A long time ago I learned all the major and melodic minor scales from the Klose book. There is an section that has all the scales connected with little "turn arounds" and transitional notes to tie them each together. I do this once tongued and once slured.
From the same section of the Klose book are the major and minor scales in thirds. I do them both tongued and slured. Occasionaly to mix things up I'll do the scales in thirds in different articulations; two and two, one and three, three and one.
Again from the Klose, there are exercises where he goes through the circle of fifths with major chords, major 7th chords, and diminished 7th chords. I do each of the exercises once slured and once tongued.
3. Baermann
Each day I do one major and minor scale from Baermann, working through each exercise presented for the key, i.e. scales, chords, returing scales etc.
Some days due to time constraints i have to cheat a little, maybe just do things tongued not slured, but this takes me about an hour as a rule.
I know lots of really fantastic players who warm up for ten mins and they are good to go. I've never been one of them. I've always had to warm up very methodically and for a fairly long time before I felt like I was ready to go work on etudes, solo pieces, or ensemble music.
It's interesting to see everyones warm-ups. Lots of ideas to think about.
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