Exercises aimed at good coördination of breath movement (blow and draw) and slide movement (in and out).
This exercise helps you to get fluent with every possible combination of breath and slide movement.
With the aspects 'blow or draw' and 'slide in or slide out' there are 6 basic physical movements. On the sheet music below, each basic movement is numbered resulting in 1a, 1b, 2a, 2b, 3a and 3b.
Always start the exercise on the first beat of the measure. But you have to change the starting note. For examples if you play exercise 1a, first you start with the note C and play the exercise. Next, you start on C# and play the exercise. Next you start on D, etc. Listen to the recorded examples to hear what I mean.
[1a - 1] [1a - 2]
[1a - 3] [1a - 4]
1b - 1 / 1b - 2
1b - 3 / 1b - 4
2a - 1 / 2a - 2
2a - 3 / 2a - 4
2b - 1 / 2b - 2
2b - 3 / 2b - 4
3a - 1 / 3a - 2
3a - 3 / 3a - 4
3b - 1 / 3b - 2
3b - 3 / 3b - 4
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