Advance Lip Slurs

Colin Dorman

After becoming proficient with the Basic Lip Slurs, you can incorporate more advanced slurs into your warm-up
routine. Use all the fingerings within your range - don't just stick to the middle register!
Practice slurred and tongued.

In all the following lip slurs, make sure to notice when the notes/partials are steps (for example, #1 line 1)
or skips (#1 line 3). Knowing the distance between two partials is a crucial factor to accuracy and flexibility.

  
#1

   
Start 0, descend to 123

      



Start T23, ascend to T0

        
  

   
        
Start 0, descend to 123

        
Start T23, ascend to T0

   


#2


Start 0, descend to 123

     
   

 
Start T23, ascend to T0

    
Start 0, descend to 123    

      
   
Start T23, ascend to T0

   


  



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For some of the following slurs, you'll need to finger a single note. The fingering for the written arpeggio is written
above the relevant note. As you descend or ascend, you'll need to adjust the fingering to match the new note.

 
#3

  
Start 0, descend to 123

         
(3)


    

           
Start T23, ascend to T0 (T0)

     
   


        
    
Start 0, descend to 123

   
 

              
Start T23, ascend to T0

      

   
#4

          
Start 0, descend to 123

      

   
           
Start T23, ascend to T0

   
 

    
         
Start T0, descend to T23

   
  

            
      
Start 0, descend to 123

 

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     
#5

   
Start 0, descend to 123

      
 

    
   
Start T23, ascend to T0

         

 
(T3)

       
Start T0, descend to T23 (T3)

       

   
   
(3)

       
Start 0, descend to 123


(3)

In the lower register, this 16th note slur pattern is an excellent companion to lip trill exercises.
The technique of "balancing" between two partials in a lip trill and a lip slur is almost exactly the same!
Keep it "light" and ride on the airstream to keep from getting "stuck" on a note.

#6
Start 0, descend to 123

                   
      
Start T23, ascend to T0

                         

             
Start 0, descend to 123

   
       

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 #7

    
Start 0, descend to 123

                   


                 
Start T23, ascend to T0

       


                 
Start 0, descend to 123

      


   
                   
Start T0, descend to T23

 

Similar to #6, the lower octave versions of this exercise make a nice companion to lip trill exercises. This is - for
most players - a much trickier register to negotiate smoothly, and so work here can pay off throughout the registers!

       
#8

 
        
Start 0, descend to 123

     
   

  
Start T23, ascend to T0

   
                     


                
Start T0, descend to T23

          

 
 
            
           
Start 0, descend to 123

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