The Sachs and Hickman will be much more manageable. People like to suggest the Arban’s or Clarke or etude books, but those books are meant to be studied thoroughly with a teacher first. Two books I recommend: “Daily Fundamentals” by Michael Sachs and “100 Progressive Lessons for the Beginner or Comeback Player” by David Hickman. Even if it’s just a few weeks to get some direction, you’ll have the most success with a teacher. My students and I do well with virtual lessons. Virtual lessons are totally reasonable if the teacher has a good setup and good pedagogy. Your session needs to be about the improvements YOU want to make, but in general it should be well rounded and hit all areas of technical ability. After hitting your every day targets, you can move on to playing some music and trying to incorporate whatever improvements you might have made into your songs/etudes/excerpts/whatever. You could get some exercises from books, or make up your own, but whichever you do make sure there is a way to make them more challenging (add the next harmonic, articulation and scales to a metronome and increasing range, scale patterns etc.) or find a book that focuses on those areas that gets progressively more challenging for you (Bai Lin lip slurs, Arban for articulation, Clarke for scales/arpeggios etc.) Then, on certain days you can put more focus into the areas you feel need more work. For instance, if you’re fairly beginner at this point I would say harmonic slurs, articulation and scales/arpeggios should be 3 things you practice every day. So what kind of level are you at, and what are your goals? Use this to come up with a few things you feel you should do every day. If you want to go in depth on specific days for certain things, that’s great, but if you’re only doing harmonic slurs at all 1 day a week, you’re not going anywhere with them. Even if you don’t use the specific exercises from that book, you can structure a practice schedule based on the areas it suggests to cover.īasically, you want to do a little bit of everything each day. There’s a book called “A Comprehensive Practice Routine for the Aspiring Brass Player” that does a really good job of breaking this down. I had weekly lessons and band practices (during school term time) from aged 12 to 18, and appreciate that the most beneficial thing to do would be to get some virtual lessons. Long term: be confident in my abilities to join a local big band or jazz band. Short term comeback goals: be able to improvise for prolonged periods to some jazz tunes in my house Both range and endurance have suffered as you can imagine. I have been pleasingly surprised with how much music theory I have retained, my main loss has been chops. Would just like to regain some decent playing ability to be able to enjoy the trumpet properly again.Įdit: I previously played at grade 8 standard. Obviously a teacher would provide this accountability factor, but I'm not ready to commit to lessons quite yet (which would have to be virtual right now anyway). I just need telling what to do every day or it won't get done.
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I was wondering if anyone would be able to point me in the direction of a specific schedule/ training plan with set work to do each day. Obviously I need consistency just to keep my chops up. This usually leads to a few days sporadic playing before a week with no playing. I have plenty of old music but lack definite structure to my practice. I've had 5 years off after I stopped at 18 when I moved to university. Hi, I'm looking to get back into playing.