Fourth week of SA

Hello, i am continuing with the exercises. They don't seem to be much trouble except that i don't like playing the F and E and Eb pedals because they just don't feel right on the lips and they don't sound very good. It's as if it is not natural for the note to be there and you need to artificially produce the note with your lip.

And i seem to have hit the E above C threshold. Try as i might i can't seem to get that F.

I've decide to not do the K tonging - I'm just not sure of it's benefit at the moment.

Still waiting on the Herbert L Clarke book to arrive in the post.

CU soon
Rob Lane..

Pencil Exercise week five

I'm up to 2:30 min time 3 with 5 min break inbetween. I've noticed a pattern appearing whereby my chops really hurt at the start of the week but by the end of the week i can manage the time pretty much without trouble.
I think that is the beauty of approaching a difficult task in stages. Looking forward to reaching the 4 min mark so that i can start to really gain som benefit from this activity.