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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 r...

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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 beco...

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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 practi...

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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 frustrati...

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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 dedicati...

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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 tha...

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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 p...

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