Panaiotis

Try to practice at least 30 minutes each day on average.

The Practice Evaluation is used to keep track of daily practice and specify weekly assignments. Students should have a blank one available for every lesson. These are double sided PDFs, so if you print double-sided, one page will work for two weeks of lessons.

Each column represents a practice session. The following represents the rows on the sheet.

Mouthpiece Etudes: 2 minutes. We want dialog, sirens, and long tones. Try to sustain very high notes.

Harmonic series: Instructions are on the Harmonic Series Etudes page.

Thrills of Trills: There are two music systems per page, each with 6 staves of music. Practice one system each day (six exercises). The actual notes played are not important. The finger combinations are the purpose.

Scaleworks: There are 12 major scales, each with 22 exercises. Look at the Scaleworks Plan.

• • Each row represents one of the sets of exercises for a particular scale.
  • Each column represents one of the exercises for each scale.
  • Each cell represents a scale/exercise pair.
  • Practice at least two scale/exercise pairs each day.
  • Try to play these faster and faster over time. Ideally, try to get to mm. ♩ = 288 for exercises 1-4 (A-D) and mm. ♩ = 144 for the rest of them. However, don’t play any faster than you can play them perfectly.

NB: mm means metronome marking. mm ♩ = 144 means to fit 144 ♩ in one minute of time. If ♩ = 60, each ♩ is one second long.