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
