Hi Mr Steven Always great and understand all the suggestions about different approach how practice these exercises. I am enjoin your instructions and recommendations. Truly appreciate your dedication and knowledge base, clear and simple ways to explain along with all provided tips. Personally, it makes me open my mind and try different ways when I sit down and practice. I am little more conscious during my practice. Main thing (at least personally) I don’t get frustrated. I learned long time ago that it is better to walk away and relax, start again most importantly slow down. Have a wonderful day and thank you so much for sharing these tips and your knowledge.👏🙏🎺
Hi Efren, Thanks so much for all your comments. You are the kind of person I was hoping would find me on RUclips. I wish you a sense of wonder, the joy of discovery and peace in the holiday season and during your trumpeting endeavors.
Hello Steve - thank you for this. I have a suggestion for metronome games if you don't have a partner: one can use notation software to set a tempo, be silent for a while, and then resume. (Musescore is free notation software and can easily do this.) Create a score with a snare drum or wood block and fill it with quarter notes and rests, set your tempo and voila, a play-a-long duet with a metronome. I use this technique for difficult rhythms as well - enter the rhythm in whatever instrument, and add a wood block. This decodes any counting challenge -- although getting it under ones fingers is always another matter :-) - Chris
Thanks Chris, I will look forward to you explaining this when we next get together. I did a series on the "Develop Sight-Reading" Etudes by Roger Voisin and Gaston Dufresne which will begin public release the day after Christmas. Some of those etudes would definitely benefit from a customized metronome accompaniment since there are mixed meters and multiple subdivisions back to back.
Hi Mr Steven
Always great and understand all the suggestions about different approach how practice these exercises. I am enjoin your instructions and recommendations.
Truly appreciate your dedication and knowledge base, clear and simple ways to explain along with all provided tips. Personally, it makes me open my mind and try different ways when I sit down and practice. I am little more conscious during my practice. Main thing (at least personally) I don’t get frustrated. I learned long time ago that it is better to walk away and relax, start again most importantly slow down.
Have a wonderful day and thank you so much for sharing these tips and your knowledge.👏🙏🎺
Hi Efren, Thanks so much for all your comments. You are the kind of person I was hoping would find me on RUclips. I wish you a sense of wonder, the joy of discovery and peace in the holiday season and during your trumpeting endeavors.
Hello Steve - thank you for this. I have a suggestion for metronome games if you don't have a partner: one can use notation software to set a tempo, be silent for a while, and then resume. (Musescore is free notation software and can easily do this.) Create a score with a snare drum or wood block and fill it with quarter notes and rests, set your tempo and voila, a play-a-long duet with a metronome. I use this technique for difficult rhythms as well - enter the rhythm in whatever instrument, and add a wood block. This decodes any counting challenge -- although getting it under ones fingers is always another matter :-)
- Chris
Thanks Chris, I will look forward to you explaining this when we next get together. I did a series on the "Develop Sight-Reading" Etudes by Roger Voisin and Gaston Dufresne which will begin public release the day after Christmas. Some of those etudes would definitely benefit from a customized metronome accompaniment since there are mixed meters and multiple subdivisions back to back.