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surprised i'm looking for some good finger exercises o.o any suggestions? i'd prefer to keep it more on the simple side, so i can just do it every time i get my instrument out...instead of needing to read from a book..(btw i play clarinet and saxophone)

There is a band director who is publishing a scale book for technigue and scale mastery that lives and works in my district. He gave all the district band directors a rough draft of it to use with their students as a warmup. They have the students use it, then give feedback and suggestions. They also get to keep it. It is really good. It has a page of each major scale. For each scale it has several excerszes, all the same in the same order for each scale. It starts with a scale, then goes to an excersize where it goes up the scale, but every note has the next three. For example on clarinet Bb scale, you would start on C, then go up D,E and F all in eight notes. You then hop back down to D then go E, F and G. It does that(hoping down to the next note in the scale) until you get to the seventh note, on clarinet B. You go B, C, D, E like normal and then hop down and play a half note C. You go down for the scale notes C, B, A and G, but then you should end with going from the fifth to the last(G, F, E, D then whole note C.) Once you get that one fast enough for each scale, it is a very good finger workout. You should try that.