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Csms Practice Strategies
Csms Practice Strategies
Below is a list of various practice strategies. Use this as a guide on different ways to get better at
your instrument and your music! Happy Practicing!
THINK IT, SEE IT, For those times when you ● Baby bro is sleeping and you can’t practice?
● On a road trip in the car for 10 hours?
5 can have your music out ● Get out your music and speak some of your
DO IT! but not your instrument! rhythms and finger through your part on a pencil.
Take your mouthpiece off ● Make sure you have a reference pitch for the first
note you’re about to buzz
and buzz your part.
14 buzzzzzzzz it Buzzing your part will
● Take off the mouthpiece and buzz your part
● Use enough air so that the notes you are buzzing
increase your flexibility. are the correct partials
Scales are the foundation ● Make sure to look at your key signature
Scales
of your playing. The ● Practice scales with the correct fingerings
15 more comfortable you are ●
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Practice as many octaves as you can
Practice scales with different articulations- just for
with scales, the easier
your music will be. the fun of it!
● Sit up tall
● Take a deep breathe- below your belly