Goals for Each Level

Level I
   
Establish correct basics
        breathing and blowing
   
     embouchure and tone
       
     lip slurs -- pairs
        how to practice
       
fingers (including basis for whole-step trills)
       
Music
        basic intonation:  unison, octave, fourth, fifth

Level II
   
Continue to establish correct basics
       
upper and lower ranges
    Technique
        lip slurs -- very fast pairs, Colin
        double and triple tongue
        major and minor arpeggios
        chromatic scales
    Music
        subdivide beat
       
Voxman (rhythms, applied scales, phrasing)
       
first Performance Lab

Level III
   
Technique
        lip slurs -- lip trills
        large intervals - Colin
        chromatic triplets
    Music
        subdividing
        major and minor scales and arpeggios -- two octaves
        dominant 7th chords
        diminished 7th chords
        Brandt (orchestral style, more complex harmonies)

Level IV
   
Technique
        lip slurs -- Dirty Dozen
        large intervals - Arban
        gruppeto (turn)
   
Music
        subdividing
        Bousquet (agility, clean slurs and tonguing, accurate articulations, large intervals)
        Sophomore Review

Level V
    
Technique
        range -- Cichowicz
        beginning transposition -- Cichowicz
        lip slurs -- Irons
        diatonic triplets
        grace notes
        mordents
    Music
        Bordogni (bass clef, phrasing)
        Gates (odd meters)
        Charlier (advanced harmony, complex articulation patterns, remember accidentals)
       
Choose Junior Recital Music, if appropriate

Level VI
   
Technique
        Jacobs (clean octave slurs, transposition)
        Zauder (additional technique)
    Music
        Sachsei (transposition)
        Bordogni (bass clef, phrasing)
        Charlier (advanced harmony, complex articulation patterns, remember accidentals)
        Arban etudes (culmination of Arban technique)
       
Junior Recital, if appropriate

Level VII
   
Technique
       
Ridgeon (adavanced lip flexibility)
       

Level VIII
   
Technique
       
Ridgeon (advanced lip flexibility)
       
Choose Senior Recital Music

Level IX
   
Music
        Chaynes (barely tonal)
        A. Colin (atonal)
        Senior Recital

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