Download the PDF of “Range Smoothing #2“ This “Range Smoothing” Routine is designed to help you build and solidify your range, while maintaining a connected approach to all registers of the instrument. This is an expanding series. However, while you should practice all the keys below the start note, you should only expand upwards within…

Download the PDF of “Alternative Technical Study #11“ For this Exercise of the Week, Bryan Davis presents another Alternative Technical Study. This one is a somewhat angular Dorian mode line, a further example that the inner parts from arrangements can yield some interesting and challenging things to play!  We want to hear you playing this…

For this Exercise of the Week, we have another set of Twisted Flexibilities. This collection has all the odd meter flexibility goodness you’ve come to know and love, along the additional twist of a coordinated note bend in the patterns. It’s great for dialing in your airspeed, to make your lip slurs extra precise. Download…

By request, this Exercise of the Week focuses on developing clear and consistent tonguing in the upper register. Bryan Davis is here, as ever, to show you how to reverse engineer, then practice, a correct articulation at the top of the staff and beyond. Download the PDF of “Upper Register Tonguing #1” For more on…