So you’ve got some tough music you’re working on that you’re struggling to lick, and practicing it is approaching the wall of frustration. Some of these strategies are very good for breaking up a problem further – some of them are just useful so your brain can shift the context of the problme.

Any and all of these are things to layer on top of the basics…taking small chunks, and putting them into context. These aren’t the first things you should turn to. I’m mostly sharing these strategies because I think they’re useful things to know or have in your toolbox that I think you should know as a serious music student. Not all of these are going to help you a ton in practice

Brass Partial Accuracy Strategies

Metronome Stratgeies

Metronome Basics

1. Make sure you can tell when you’re getting off – you should be accenting beat one always
2. Don’t always use a voice with it. That can make you too dependent.
   • There are other psychological reasons I deign fit to use the voice almost all the time in band

Appropriate subdivision…

Advanced Metronome Matters

Variety

Leveraging Features

TonalEnergy and most good metronome apps have a couple of powerful features you can use for certain things.

Tempo Trainer

- These features are for progressively speeding up the time - Start it somewhere comfortable and have it work up to your goal

Beat Skipper

- Great if you’re struggling to keep the tempo consistent when you have the metronome off, but have gotten pretty proficient with it when the metronome is on. -