Adams Routine - Jerry Hey Expanded Version
Adams Routine - Jerry Hey Expanded Version
*When extending #97 and #102a to F# both low and high, break up doing every one every day.
Day 1, start #97 on C, go to B, C#, A, Eb, G, F. Start exercise #102a on C, go to Bb, D, Ab, E,
F#, F#. On day 2 swap these patterns for each exercise.
BREAK
2nd Session
Next session start with Clarke 2nd , 3rd or 4th Study. Always start on E below the staff and
expand outward to low F# and C in the staff. When playing the 2nd Study, change modes on each
repetition, Major, Minor, Diminished scales.
Arban’s P. 14 #16-27 – Play each exercise twice, 1st time all slurred, REST, 2nd time all single
tongued. Play a few articulated 8VA.
Arban’s #46-50 – Start with #47 and #48, transpose each in all keys. Then play #49, #50, then
#46.
Schlossberg #45
Schlossberg Chord Studies #70 single tongue, #71 slur 1st 2 notes tongue next 2, #73 All
Slurred
Arban’s p.297 Characteristic Study #13 The goal is to play in one breath. “Never heard anyone
make it!” – J
Other Arban’s :
Obviously not every exercise was played each day but this material would get covered during the
week.
Saint-Jacome’s
157 Always single tongue, start with 1st exercise, 1st Variant triplets, #4 sixteenths, #11
sextuplets. The repeated G is in the staff, try playing all these variations with the repeated G
above the staff. Once Mastered (J or L) try p. 161 and variations. CORNERS!!!!
BREAK
3rd Session
Start 3rd session with another Clarke
Saint-Jacome’s Bugle Call p.19 #26, p.24, p.49 #3, p.68 & p. 81
Selection of Charlier or Bitsch etudes, Art of the Trumpet (Originally titled “Common Sense” by
William Thiecke)
We usually finished off each day with Maggio Long Range Chromatic. 1st a flexibility pattern to
start out loose. Slur from low C, G to C in the staff, lip trill between G and C then back to low
C. Rest. Go down by ½ steps to low F#. Rest.
Play chromatically from low F# up to F# in the staff back to low F#, breath, F# in the staff
chromatically down to low F# back up to F#. Breath. Start on low G and do the same pattern and
continue to go up by ½ steps. Continue upward to as high as you can go. It does get better but
never easier.
You Do Not trade off or rest till you’re done. And you WILL be done at this point.