Posted by Farah on January 01, 2001 at 10:17:34:
In Reply to: high register excercises posted by John V on January 01, 2001 at 00:49:43:
What I did was buzz my mouthpiece while playing 5-note scales on the piano (in tune of course). Because I'm a horn player, I started on Middle C. You may want to start an 8va below that. This is the buzzing pattern I used:
cdefgfedc
defgagfed
efgabagfe
defgagfed
cdefgfedc
then start the whole thing on D and go up to F and back down again. I suggest doing this for only 5-10 minutes. You won't notice a difference right away, but after 2 weeks of doing this everyday, I noticed some fantastic improvement.
Farah