| I use this technique first thing every day. I and all of the other players at my school use the Adam method. Our prof who has been there 2 years now has us do this first thing everyday and at the beginning of each practice session. Wow is all I can say since I started doing this and the rest of the Adam routine. The entire studio has improved by leaps and bounds. For those of you wondering I attend Morehead State University in Morehead KY. The trumpet prof is Gregory H. Wing. He studied under MR. Adam at Indiana for his Masters. He then went on to play with everyone under the sun. He has played lead with Buddy Rich, freelance in Vegas for years, and to many other people to name. I won't say that the entire Adam routine is right for everyone because it's not but the, as we call it "blowing of the pipe" is an excellent exercise. The first pitch is concert Eb or somewhere close then the partials from there up are Concert F, C, F,Bb. these partials should lock in and if you can blow a double C on just the leadpipe it should be easy on the horn right. I dunno I still can't hit that one. |