Warm-Ups

In the beginning of every single class we do the same warm-ups which are Wind Orchestra Warm-Ups and a different styles of Warm-ups. The Wind Orchestra Warm-Ups consist of 5 different exercises which help you practice your articulation, and practicing the notes in up to three different octaves which helps me make my pitch more accurate and have a wider knowledge of fingerings for notes I may never see on sheet music, but it can be useful. Then with the major scales, we do different kinds, derived from the same notes. The one we most popularly do is a very simple scale that only goes one octave higher, that we repeat. The other one however is different major scales that go up two octaves higher, which repeat and then it moves to arpeggios so we can familiarize ourselves with the different intervals between notes on a scale.