Daily Routines for the Student Tuba Player, by Bill Waterman

Daily Routines for the Student Tuba Player is intended for younger players, but also works perfectly for those more advanced players wanting to hone a particular skill or play a gentle yet all-inclusive daily routine. The routines in this book provide a comprehensive way to ensure that you practice all your fundamental tuba skills every day. Practicing fundamentals is the most important practice session of your day because when your fundamental skills improve, everything you play gets better. Daily Routines contains eight routines: Beginning; Basic; Articulation; Flexibility and Accuracy; Valve Dexterity and Intonation; Ear Training; Advanced; and Duet. Each routine is further divided into ten skill categories: breathing; long tones; dynamics; articulation; low and resonant; lip slurs; valve technique; subito dynamics; scales, intervals, and arpeggios; and range (high and low). By combining the ten skill categories with each routine, Daily Routinesassures that all of your fundamental skills will improve equally over time.