| An exercise I use on a daily basis, in my own playing, and one which I use with my better students is smething that was taught to me as bouncing chromatics.
The idea is that you start off by slurring a small interval (C, C#, C), then you ascend through the chromatics (C, C#, C, D, C, D#, C, E, C, F, C, F#, C, G etc) - the aim is to keep every slur as smooth and even as the previous one.
My general advice is to keep it slow and steady. If you get to an interval that is problematic, go back a few notes - to where it last sounded easy. |