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Author: SteveG_CT
Date: 2011-12-20 16:55
I always do some long tones as part of my daily practice. Best way I know of to build up and maintain embrouchure endurance.
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Author: Trevor M
Date: 2011-12-20 16:57
I guess I do 'long tones', but they're incorporated into other warmup exercises. I try to do a lot of Carmine Caruso sort of stuff (although, honestly, that gets boring after ten minutes or so) but also use them when I'm practicing octaves right at the start of a playing session.
(edited for: what was I, drunk?)
Post Edited (2011-12-20 19:19)
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Author: sfalexi
Date: 2011-12-20 17:57
I do them, but incorporated into other exercises (scales and register exercises)
Alexi
US Army Japan Band
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Author: kdk
Date: 2011-12-20 18:07
Depends on what you mean by long tones. Playing Klose scales slurred, two scales on a breath (one of the ways I sometimes start a practice session) makes for quite long sustained sound - I just happen to be moving my fingers while I'm sustaining.
Karl
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Author: RachelB4
Date: 2011-12-20 18:10
I spend about 20-25 minutes just doing longtones. I need a lot of endurance for the amount of playing I do and those really have helped since I've started. Not to mention evening out tone quality.
First I do slowww chromatic runs, up and down about about 5 half-steps. I do phrasing like <> ... starting as softly as possible and getting as loud as I can within reason. I then go to the next half step up and do the same until I get to like high G.
Then I work with Octaves. I go 3 octaves up and then back down. Repeat the same thing with the next note a half step up.
I work with the tuner the whole time trying to keep the notes as accurate as possible.. It's hard...
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Author: oldvter
Date: 2011-12-20 18:22
I am hot and cold with them.
When I do them, I am happier with my practice session in general.
When I don't do them, I wish I had.
Christine
Orlando, FL
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Author: William
Date: 2011-12-20 19:01
Hate 'em--never do them. Except a couple at the start of playing to get my tone centered and focused. After that, it's scales and repretoire with special emphasis on musical phrasings played with evenly connected note transitions in tune. That builds endurance just as efficiently as long tones......maybe more so. At least, it's more fun.
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Author: ned
Date: 2011-12-20 21:06
Yet another fairly boring post along with the multitudes of others on this same subject........why not search?
You'll never get a definitiver answer you know.............on this or bore oil or grease or swabs.............or, oh dear.............all the rest.
And, yes, I do long tones.
It works for me.
It may not work for you.
Try it though.
Then again, you don't need to take my advice..........it's only an opinion anyway.
Merrick Wrist Mouse
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Author: bethmhil
Date: 2011-12-21 04:15
It's like cleaning house... you reeeeeeally don't want to do it, but the ending result is so satisfying and makes you feel good.
Your body is different from day to day, and that very much includes your lungs and your mouth. A long tone warm up is to the wind player that stretches are to an athlete...
I never, ever practiced long tones before the end of my freshman year of college. I used to think they were unbelievably boring and dull. I got by without them, and others can and do too.
Nowadays, I begin every practice routine with this particular long tone warm up: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8Z1y7E7_04
I like this because not only is it very meditative with the metronome going, but it is an excellent way for an individual to extend his or her range of both notes and breath support.
BMH
Illinois State University, BME and BM Performance
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Author: clarnibass
Date: 2011-12-21 06:17
Unless the music I'm playing doesn't have any, which is rare I guess, then yes, but not as part of excercise or warm-up, etc.
By the way, how many seconds (or whatever measurment you use) does a note have to be to be considered "long"?
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Author: Nessie1
Date: 2011-12-21 12:06
Personally I think five or ten minutes of long notes at the beginning of a practice session or before a rehearsal are vital.
I set a metronome at whatever I feel comfortable and count how many beats I hold. I also do crescendi, diminuendi etc making sure that they peak at the right point etc.
I like to be able to concentrate on something fairly simple to ensure that something as basic as breath control is as steady as I can make it before I get on to scales and pieces.
I also do slow octave jumps, top note slurs and tonguing exercises.
To me the point is that, even when you are playing the fireworks in, say, a
Weber piece, you have still got to breathe through the fingering and tonguing.
Vanessa.
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Author: janlynn
Date: 2011-12-21 14:15
ned - i wasnt asking if "I" should do them ...i wanted to see how many others do them and what their experience has been. whether it was a simple I do them, I dont ..or an added heres why .......The responses I got were exactly what I was looking for. sorry to bore you but you didnt have to read or answer a post that didnt interest you.
Thanks everyone who shared their thoughts on long tones, I appreciate it.
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Author: Liam Murphy
Date: 2011-12-21 19:32
Hi janlynn,
I don't practise long-tones.
Not one of my teachers has ever suggested I practise long-tones. This could be because making a nice sound and having good control have never been big issues for me.
Three minutes' worth mightn't kill me, but any more would put me off practising all together.
"Horses for courses" I say.
Liam
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