Low Eh!

I’ve recently had several students and band teachers ask me about how to build technique. I have found that when a student practices with a metronome, and plays a full range scale – start on the root, play to the highest diatonic note, then to the lowest diatonic note, and back to the root, in eighth notes, triplets, and sixteenth notes, their time dramatically improves.

I believe that the comfort with the triplet is the point where students either stop speeding up or slowing down.

I’m demonstrating it in a lesson with the metronome on quarter notes at 80bpm.