Daily Routine

 Breathing routine
o Making sure to keep an open ‘OH’ and keeping the air constantly moving
o Timing my breath
o Focus on the muscles at work when breathing correctly
 REST
 Flow Studies
o Start everything with an air attack making sure to keep an open and relaxed
throat
o The ultimate goal is to have the same resonant sound through the whole
exercise
o Do not put too much stress on keeping time with these, focus on the sound and
how the horn resonates
 REST
 Long tones/Pedal Tones
o Taken from Louis Maggio
o Use a drone
o Start on middle space C (Concert Bb) and do a descending arpeggio holding each
note until the pitch center is attained
o Continue down chromatically to low C (Concert Bb)
o Make sure notes below low F# (Concert E) are open and relaxed and transfer
that relaxed open sound and feeling to the other registers of the horn
o DO NOT CHANGE THE EMBOUCHURE TO FORCE NOTES OUT
 REST
 Lip Slurs/Harmonic Slurs
o Set metronome to a comfortable tempo
o Pick a rhythm (eighths, sixteenths, triplets, etc.)
o Start on second line G (Concert F) and slur up to third space C (Concert Bb)
 Make sure to have a clean crisp attack
o Continue down Chromatically
o Reverse the process. Start on third space C and slur down to G
o Continue down chromatically as low as possible
 REST
 Whisper tones
o Play long tones or a scale
 Make sure to keep the whisper tone to help with air control
 REST
 Clarke Technical Studies/Variations
o Clarke Studies 1,2, &3
 Play quietly to ensure that you are playing in the pitch center
 Set metronome to a comfortable tempo
 Play exercises using different articulations and rhythms
 Expand the register both ways
 Do not force notes out
 Keep the throat open and relaxed
 REST
 Vacchiano Trumpet Routines
o Pick and choose different exercises from each practice routine to be prepared
for anything that will be played that day
 REST
 Arban’s Book
o Multiple Tonguing
 Set metronome to a comfortable tempo and do air patterns first using
the correct syllables
 Transfer to mouthpiece
 Transfer to horn
 REST
 Max Schlossberg Daily Drills and Technical Studies
o Octave Drills
 Making sure to hit every partial
o Scale Drills
 Set metronome to a comfortable tempo
 Play only with valves first and listen to the rhythm of the valves
 Play scales
 Vary rhythm and articulations
 REST