{"id":112,"date":"2008-01-11T12:18:59","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T12:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/2008\/01\/11\/upper-range-expansion\/"},"modified":"2008-01-11T12:18:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T12:18:59","slug":"upper-range-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/upper-range-expansion\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper Range Expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Most likely todays Blog will only be of interest to Brass and Trumpet players)<\/p>\n<p>I have a lot to say about this topic. However this is just a mention of the stuff I&#8217;m currently using in my everyday practice. Here&#8217;s a breakdown of my routine at the moment:<\/p>\n<p>Technique Building (lip slurs, tonguing an finger exercises)<br \/>\nStudies (Looking over The Arban, Bitsch etc &#8211; practical outlet of My Tech. Build)<br \/>\nJazz Theory &#8211; I now have time to work on patterns and their application. (Scales, modes and Patterns)<br \/>\nUpper Register &#8211;  This needs to be done everyday but NOT OVER DONE!! Damaging your Lip will mess up your practice routine!<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m currently playing Arp&#8217;s and a few exercises from Jerome Callet Super Chops. (Again, more scales). I&#8217;ve found improvement comes after controlling every note in these exercises, remaining completely relaxed (with no though of screwing on) and holding the upper notes before coming back down.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll keep an update of how this is going for any trumpet\/brass players who might be interested.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Most likely todays Blog will only be of interest to Brass and Trumpet players) I have a lot to say about this topic. However this is just a mention of the stuff I&#8217;m currently using in my everyday practice. Here&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,3],"tags":[130,8,131,129,128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/37.9.62.138\/~mattrobertsmusic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}