I started a thread asking the community on how much and often we should be practicing..
http://www.dwerden.com/forum/showthr...nd-frequencies
... got many helpful posts!. I forgot to comment that I'm now on a 2nd instrument, and possibly looking into a 3rd instrument. May as well just make this into another thread, here. AFAIK, the premise here is similar? Any tips for those who play multiple instruments?
All I've heard were from fellow band members who say more times than not, plans can tend to go out the window. For example, another euphonium player ended up spending the whole summer break practicing exclusively on trombone.
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Euphonium is my main instrument, so definitely focus on that. Will continue playing this in community band whenever we can pick up with that again.
I have a hand-me-down flute, so that's very low upfront cost there. Self taught, been playing it for a few months. I've managed to go from not being able to do anything, to making notes with decent success rates (my range is low F/F4 to middle G/G5), although still need to work on long tones, and increasing those success rates. Need to look up how articulation should work here :\ Nice thing with flute is I can practice it even after noise ordnance kicks in (although I still limit it to no latter than mid evening)
I've been holding off on buying a trumpet (the instrument I started off with, after piano), on account of time management with practicing euphonium :x I'm thinking if this ended up eating time into euphonium practice, it wouldn't be that bad since there is decent overlap between that and euphonium. I'll likely want to invest in a practice mute here as well.
http://www.dwerden.com/forum/showthr...nd-frequencies
... got many helpful posts!. I forgot to comment that I'm now on a 2nd instrument, and possibly looking into a 3rd instrument. May as well just make this into another thread, here. AFAIK, the premise here is similar? Any tips for those who play multiple instruments?
All I've heard were from fellow band members who say more times than not, plans can tend to go out the window. For example, another euphonium player ended up spending the whole summer break practicing exclusively on trombone.
.
Euphonium is my main instrument, so definitely focus on that. Will continue playing this in community band whenever we can pick up with that again.
I have a hand-me-down flute, so that's very low upfront cost there. Self taught, been playing it for a few months. I've managed to go from not being able to do anything, to making notes with decent success rates (my range is low F/F4 to middle G/G5), although still need to work on long tones, and increasing those success rates. Need to look up how articulation should work here :\ Nice thing with flute is I can practice it even after noise ordnance kicks in (although I still limit it to no latter than mid evening)
I've been holding off on buying a trumpet (the instrument I started off with, after piano), on account of time management with practicing euphonium :x I'm thinking if this ended up eating time into euphonium practice, it wouldn't be that bad since there is decent overlap between that and euphonium. I'll likely want to invest in a practice mute here as well.
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