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Mine (its intense/complicated):

Warm Up (45minutes-1hr)
-Flutter Tongue/Hissing Noises; this gets my chops loose and my air moving
-Breathing Exercises
-Water min. 2 cups; I always make im hydrated, and my lips are moist before playing....always helps to make my tone has good as it can be
-Play on my horn low C to low F# chromatically, long tones
-Play lip slurs (I have note cards with pages to my Foundations Book, and I play the lip slurs on the page/note card which I choose, keeps it varied)
-Play chromatic exercises at pp, starting from random notes, stopping at the end of my range, and coming back down, even sixteenth notes, slurred
-Play (this is in the key of Bb) C, D, Db, E, Eb, F, G, Ab, A, Bb, B scales, long tones, then quarter note-sixteenth note rhythm, then do the scales with their minors, and arpeggios. I also do this special scale thing which combines them all in one smooth exercise
-Play all Jazz Scales, double octave
-Work on six/seven sharp/flat scales

After I do my warm up, ill typically take a break, and put down my horn. I will go and drink plenty of water, and either play piano/guitar, work on music theory, or just do regular homework.

Technical Work (10 min)
-work on tonguing exercises, going through single, double, and triple tonguing, making sure its as clean as can be

Range (20 min)
-Do all scales, double octave
-Take upper octaves of the scales, and play them long tones
-Slurs above the staff
-Peddle tones, to keep chops from getting too tight
-Play a few parts of the marching music that are screaming high

Water Break

Repetoire Work/Music Practice (1hr+)
-I start with Marching Band Music, running through each section, slowly with my met, to make sure fingering/tonguing is perfectly aligned (mistakes like that, are very noticeable to those damn judges.)
-I then bring up my met to show tempo, and run the movements down, looking at the music while I do so. I rarely practice my marching music without the music. While I have it memorized, seeing the music while practicing, helps me make sure every note im playing is perfect, and allows me to concentrate on dynamics, and timing
-I normally will then move on to audition solos (Bergen county band, and Region/All-state band), making sure they are as clean as possible
-Work on the solos my teacher has given me
-Work on jazz audition, and pieces
-Improv!!!
-Play around with random songs


After this all, I always drink a lot of water, flutter tongue, POP (loosens muscles around mouth), and then make sure I eat a decent amount of protein for dinner, to help build muscles in my mouth.


Yeah, I have a complicated schedule. But it works.

Tune
Warm-up (D minor scale)
School music (boring)
Sibelius Violin concert Op.47 in D minor
Summer and Winter from the Four Seasons by Vivaldi
Paganini Caprice #s 5,13,24
Bach's Chaconne
Sight Read random selections from my extra books i have not learned yet

Generally I'll break my practicing up into 45 minute sessions scattered throughout the day but heres generally what I cover

Warm up
10-15 minutes or until I sound good.
Buzz 5-15 minutes
ETUDES!!!!! for majority of practice time (Maxime Alphonse, Kopprasche, Shoemaker, Gallay, ect....) this about 1/2 of my practice time
Youth Orchestra music
Solos and other fun stuff

I try to get in 2 or more hours at least all together

Yeah, most of my solos and etudes cover it as well, but at this point in time, my playing needs even more. I get bored otherwise. What do you play?

well right now w have auditions for a youth symphony thing so its pretty much me trying to keep the beat with a scale and to not go mad from the most obnoxious trumpet player in the world.

I practice every day for like thirty minutes.

I start off with a glass of water, then, positioning my flute head piece just right to fit my mouth, go from low F, to High F, then back down, two times, fast, and slow.
Then once im warmed up, i start with a song, usually one i am having difficult times with. Because i tend to do better at the begging of practice.
I work through the piece, do measures that im having trouble with, and continue with that, until i think i'm doing pretty good on that song, i move onto the next song, then the next, then once im done, i do the scale one more time, ((Which i do to hear my sound quality improve, and my speed, and no slurrs in between notes. Basically to hear my progress)) then i put my flute away, and im done!

I warm up by playing scales, starting at C and going counterclockwise around the circle of 5ths.
Then I do the complete chromatic scale.
Usually I'll slur the scales, sometimes I do different patterns.

Occasionally, I'll mess around in a method book for awhile.

Then I do some sight reading in various solo books.

And finally, work on my solo piece.

hmmmm Tchaik 5 on mellophone (mvmnt 2???) ..... Idk how that'd sound on mellophone.... you're probably like a million times better than me on mellophone. Our school doesn't have a marching band, just a pep band. Besides playing mellophone in pep band I kind of avoid it like the plague because I sound so bad lol. Horns a different story though. I loooooove Tchaik 5! We attempted the 1st mvmnt in school orchestra. It was a good attempt for a school orchestra, I'd loooove to play it in youth orchestra though!