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Getting Spin on Your Third Octave Notes

Getting Spin on Your Third Octave Notes

How many of you feel like your third octave just does not have the same kind of resonance and excitement that perhaps your second and your first octave do? Learning how to “spin” your notes is one way to add that excitement to your high notes. We all need to work...

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Evening Out Your Registers

Evening Out Your Registers

When you play from a low C to a high C, just two octaves higher, what do you hear dynamically? Play it right now. Play from the low C all the way up the octaves to the high C. What do you hear? A lot of times what I hear from my students is they start off with a...

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How to NOT Go Flat at the End of Notes

How to NOT Go Flat at the End of Notes

Do you find that you go flat at the end of a long phrase? It’s quite common when you run out of air or lose your support. But you can keep those notes on pitch even when you’re running out of air by working on tapers, keeping the airstream up, and keeping up the...

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Bending Pitch to Work on Intonation

Bending Pitch to Work on Intonation

We all have intonation problems, and they can occur at the worst times where you feel like you've been playing in tune and then suddenly, you're out of tune. And that might be because the people you're playing with are different and you don't understand their...

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