GUEST on
1280583534 wrote:
Tell your sister to buy Claude Gordon's Systematic approach to Daily Practice for Trumpet.
Published by Carl Fischer.
Sneldog on
1280221448 wrote:
There are lots of fancy metronomes, but my experience is that the best way to improve time accuracy is to put a single click off the beat, not too close together, but not so far apart that you can't connect at all. For example, to get started, put the click on 60 bpm. Just a single click, no accent. Call the pulse a quarter note, and imagine it as beats '2' and '4' of a bar of 4/4. Now you have a very rudimentary drummer, who has a clean backbeat cross-stick, uncluttered by a lot of dings and quacks (yes, I heard a metronome that actually quacked!). The tempo is a very middle-of-the-road 120 bpm (2x60=120). Start your scale or pattern practice in quarter notes, then eighths, triplets, sixteenths, etc., switching back and forth with different subdivisions. Good luck! - S.
Jennetta_Rose on
1265581529 wrote:
btw if anyone could help me help my sister. she plays trumpet and needs help with playing with control and strength. she is a good player but won't listen to me when i try to help but she calls me a "silly woodwind! brass is far superior!" i agree that brass can be superior in someways but im not here for a debate im here to learn more ways to help my sis. i know little about trumpet playing. if anyone has any ideas or websites i could look at that wouldbe very helpful. plus if u could help me with playing clarinet 2 that would be helpful ;P. just need help with technique for fast and easy fingering switching for me maybe alt fingerings. Thanks for the help everyone=)!!!