Over my 41+ years of teaching in San Jose, I have been asked many many times, "What can I do to get better?" Well, here is my simple answer. I call it my
Daily Routine for Sustained Improvement
1 – Long Tone Routine
2 – Lip Slur Routine
3 – 3- (or 5-) note patterns
4 – Scales
Major 3 octaves
Minor (2 octaves)
Relative
Harmonic
Melodic
5 – Legato study (i.e. Bordogni, Rochut, anything legato)
Normal tuba register
Octave lower
6 – Kopprasch
7 – Tyrell
8 – Blazevich
9 – Music for auditions
Solos
Excerpts
Try it, IT WORKS!
Enjoy!
