My new book, entitled Complete Warm Up and Daily Routine for Tuba, is designed to provide students, amateurs, and professional tuba players with a useful guide to warming up and daily exercises. This new series of exercises enables tuba players to experience rapid, step-by-step progression in embouchure and, as a result, in their technical precision and speed. In particular, this enables:
• step-by-step development and progression in embouchure
• improvement and increased confidence in attacks
• improvement and increased confidence in all registers
• improvement and increased confidence in control in legato
• increased confidence in moving from one register to another and in leaps
• increased technical precision and speed
My advice is to tackle these exercises starting at a comfortable pace (75 – 80 on the metronome) and then to gradually pick up speed in order to reach the maximum attainable pace. Another idea might be to practice in major and minor keys on alternate days, or to play in the ordinary way on one day and the opposite the next. Everything is at the sole discretion of the
player. As always, I leave full freedom of execution up to tuba players who want to try their hands at this new series of daily exercises for rapid, step-by-step progression as part of their training as musicians.
Angelo Piazzini
