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Author: pliscapoivre
Date: 2011-11-09 13:49
Hi everyone,
I just wanted to share a warm-up that I made up and ask if you have any other creative supplements to long tones to offer the group...
I choose a note and start moving either up or down chromatically: e.g.
A-G#-A
and then, with always only one beat to breathe, add one additional note to each series:
A-G#-A-G-A
A-G#-A-G-A-F#A
and so on until I reach an octave. Difficulty varies with your chosen range and tempo. At 80, it takes about 2 minutes and 15 seconds. It's not as boring as single long tones, and I think it does quite a lot of good -- also really challenges the breathing mechanism. (I don't allow myself to circular breathe on this one -- feels like cheating.)
If you want, you can also put a tone (from tuner or other source) on the main note you've chosen to listen to the intonation of each interval as you go.
I hope this is useful to some of you, and that you also have some goodies to share so that we can all expand and vary our routines a little.
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