| I think that it's great that you are using a tuner. Might I suggest a better way of using it, that will get "better" results...
don't play and watch the tuner the whole time, you are just learning to play with your eyes. The key to being a good musician is to use your ears. So set the tuner to play a note, usually refered to as a "drone". So when you are doing your C long tone set the tuner to sound a C and play with it trying to match the pitch exactly using your ear to tell you if you are on.
...And what you should really do, if you're a very diligent high school student... ;), is put the drone on the note you're on...sing the note, then play the note on your mouthpiece (preferably with a B.E.R.P.) , and then play it on your horn.
Once you can do this comfortably start doing simple scale exercises the exact same way... drone on the root of the scale, sing, buzz, play...
Hope this gives you some things to think about.
Matt |