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    Step Six: The Plateau
    C.L. Behrens
    • Sep 2, 2020
    • 3 min

    Step Six: The Plateau

    So we've been practicing and you're seeing progress. You've started an exciting journey to becoming a better musician. But you've hit a...
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    Step Five: Just say, "Toh" (Articulations)
    C.L. Behrens
    • Aug 25, 2020
    • 2 min

    Step Five: Just say, "Toh" (Articulations)

    "Just say Toh." Jim DeSano would say that to me all the time in lessons. Between that and "Are you keeping your corners down?" Would...
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    Step Four: the Low Range (you didn't know you needed)
    C.L. Behrens
    • Aug 11, 2020
    • 2 min

    Step Four: the Low Range (you didn't know you needed)

    Excuse me as I step up on my soap box. To have an excellent high range, you must have an excellent low range. That's right. Do you...
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    Step Three: Practice regimens
    C.L. Behrens
    • Aug 4, 2020
    • 2 min

    Step Three: Practice regimens

    So you've been putting time in on the horn? That's great! Getting started is the hardest part, and those first days can be very...
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    Step Two: Use a drone
    C.L. Behrens
    • Mar 19, 2019
    • 2 min

    Step Two: Use a drone

    Congratulations, you've started using a metronome! All of here at Good Rhythm, Inc. are proud of your efforts and your continued...
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    Step One: Have you accepted the metronome as your Lord, God, and Savior?
    C.L. Behrens
    • Mar 12, 2019
    • 2 min

    Step One: Have you accepted the metronome as your Lord, God, and Savior?

    The Metronome. My dreaded enemy, the executor of truth and justice. All through out my early music life I despised the little machine...
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    Spring 2019 Blog Series!
    C.L. Behrens
    • Jan 19, 2019
    • 1 min

    Spring 2019 Blog Series!

    Hello everyone! Happy to announce that this springs theme will be about practicing! This could also be viewed as what I use as teaching...
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