Practice Schedule 2010/06/03

Still working on playing classical etudes on tenor with jazz set-up. Using stiffer reeds in the box and a 7* (ish) mouthpiece - similar in bore and mold to a rubber Otto Link. Can feel muscles being worked in new ways. Still pushing through Klosé exercises. If and when they become too easy, will incorporate Marcel Mule exercises and Sigurd Rascher exercises.

To complete the transition to stiffer reeds, must buckle down and practice longtones and harmonics (with tuner).

Also starting to run chordal patterns on tunes again. I need to make serious strides in getting repertoire back together and have spent too much time avoiding intimacy with the chord progressions.

Starting with arpeggiations of basic 7th chords. Planning to begin practicing rootless left hand piano voicing through tunes on saxophone.

Working on ascending 3rds through entire range of instrument. Both while ascending scales and descending.

Considering new exercises for altissimo range. Possibilities include learning bebop melodies in the altissimo, practicing ballads up there, etc.