| Great responses! One of the ways I try to deal with less time/need to practice well issue is doing a couple of things at the same time. Example: articulation combined with scales. Diminished scales single/multiple tongue. Flow studies for warm ups, but do a ii-V pattern all over the horn. Instead of Clarke (gotta come back to the original once in a while) do Vizzutti/Tony Plog material. 30 mins in Nagel's "Trumpet Skills" book rather than Schlossberg. Sight read at the piano (which I suck at) while resting the chops. It's still sight reading!
Find out what you can't do, then practice that until you can. Then find something else you can't do and practice that until you can! |