Stan Getz’s Palm Key Exercise

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I’ve been practicing this exercise off and on for years. Spending five minutes a day on it at 60 BPM will greatly improve your upper register technique and help to eliminate any glitches between notes.

Takeaways:

• Spend 3 times as long in the extremities of the horn as you do in the middle of the horn.
• Move your fingers efficiently, keeping them as close to the horn as possible.
• Looping an exercise like this slowly will help to get you into a great practice mindset.
• Keep your fingers moving even when breathing.
• Use your phone to record yourself to hear technical glitches.

Related Lessons:

• Build Your Technique Through Tunes, Triads, and Triplets
• Five Note Drills Over the Break
• Isolation Drills to Clean Up Your Technique