Hayden
Woods Music

Once a week for a scheduled hour, your learning trombone/euphonium student will have a full regiment tailored to the reinforcement of good habits, correction of habits that can inhibit the performer and the addition of new techniques required to perform at the highest standards. What will be focused in an hour long session:

• Scales: Learning/enforcing the 12 major scales over time, ability to learn other modes (minors/ blues etc)

• Technique: Utilizing exercises such as long tones, lip slurs and tonguing/air exercises to develop versatility in many styles and genres of performance

• Practical application: Students throughout the year will work on executing these points in their music courses at school, as well as dive into solo/chamber works appropriate to their level. These may come from multiple book sources or solos, which the student may be required to purchase.

Lessons are schedule on a weekly basis, with a set day, time and location, determined by the mutual schedule of the student (and parents for those still in school) and the instructor.

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Once a week for a scheduled 30 minute session, you and/or your young musician will learn the basics of their instrument if they are new or have a tailored practice routine with exercises built for enforcing good habits for your progressing musician. What will be focused in these 30 minute sessions:

• Tone production: working towards good tone qualities within embouchure, air quality, fingering/slide positions and more, depending on the instrument

• Scales/Technique: Beginning to learn the major scales for beginners, one new one every week or two preferable for beginning students, or more for those who have been working on them. Techniques depending on the instrument will be applied as a tool to work with the music they will be performing

• Practical application: Students will use these skills either in the academic setting or from pieces picked by interest and application of techniques

Scheduled on a weekly bases, on the mutual schedules of the student (and parents) and the instructor.

These lessons will be designed to allow any musician to expand their abilities to compose, arrange and even improvise. You will learn everything about musical theory, written and aural, and work to apply it within your goals.

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These lessons will work to assist in building a fundamental foundation within your instrument (intervals, counterpoint and more) as well as learning how different timbres and ranges work together to create the great works from centuries ago to now. Learning to compose appropriately will give you the tools necessary to create pieces that push the musical boundaries as well as keeping the tried and true foundation that brought civilization a myriad of genres, instrumentation and more.

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These are scheduled either in half hour, hour or as needed sessions. They are scheduled preferably on a set weekly basis, but depending on the openings can be based on the needs of the students.

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