Advanced Student Curriculum
Warm up exercises
Long tone studies
Vibratos, trills, growls, and shakes
Advanced scales, patterns, and
chords
Advanced musical composition study
Advanced Theory
Advanced improvisational studies
Advanced ear training exercises
Advanced music transcription/transposition
Advanced altissimo high harmonic studies
Alternate fingerings
Learn the theory
behind spontaneous composition
What notes to play
How play through
changes
How to structure a
solo
Playing “outside
the changes”
Build the
confidence to play out
Develop an
extended, high-harmonic range into the 4th octave
Learn special exercises to support "top tones"
Learn which
fingerings work with your horn
How and when to
use extended range high notes
Frighten
your dog or cat IV.
Learn When Not to Play:
Let
your audience breathe (and you too)
Punctuate your
solos with poignant pauses
Sometimes what you
don’t play is just as important as what you doV. Ear Training:
A necessary skill
for effective improvisation
Play what you hear in your head without hunting around for it
Pitch and interval recognition
Learn how to
harmonize on the spot
Learn how to play
by ear. You'll be glad you did if you ever lose your sheet music,
Compliment your
reading skills
Sheet
music’s evil twin IV.
Emergency Instrument repair
Why won’t it
play 5 minutes before you go on?
Diagnosis
check list
Never
underestimate the power of a rubber band
Popular spare
parts to have on hand
When to call in the big guns (A.K.A. a professional repair technician)VII. Listen to the Pros:
Learn
from those who have gone on before you
You have to listen
to the pros if you want to play like a pro
Learn to play
along by ear or with sheet music
Fatten
up your “lick library” with ideas the pros use
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