The point is that you have to play and love what you play. No matter if it is pop, movie themes, video game themes or whatever. I ask my students what they like and then we play. The most important thing that we do in lessons is to listen to our sound and to play music. We also sing our parts as close to in tune as possible. My students do all of these in each lesson. When practiced daily, for ALL brass players, the Cichowicz Flow Studies, Caruso Isometric exercises and the Lip Flexibility Drills, (especially the Frank Brown Lip Slurs) have helped me and my students develop characteristic sounds, range and endurance. And I also like technical virtuoso’s and firey playing like Maynard Ferguson and Wayne Bergeron as well. To me they are the most difficult to play. I like to listen to players with great sound: Bill Watrous, Chris Botti, Maurice Andre, Bobby Shew (and hundreds more). The only way to get where you want to be is to practice.
Cichowicz – providing an unparalleled pedagogical treasure for students and professionals alike to mine. It also includes a CD of recordings of most of the etudes in the book, made by former students of Mr. Cichowicz’s former students makes for a more informed approach to get the best results from this collection. More than that, commentaries by some of Mr. Now here is a formalized collection compiled by Mark Dulin and Michael Cichowicz. Vincent Cichowicz Compiled by Mark Dulin and Michael Cichowicz Flow Studies Volume 1 Vincent Cichowicz’s famous collection of studies from numerous sources, to which he added his own articulations, has been passed around for years.
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