- Using a Metronome (often on 2 & 4 for swing)
- Using a Tuner (for about four minutes during one half a long tones exercise)
- Long Tones Exercise (by George Young)
- Jackie McLean Scale Book
- Classical Method Book (usually Rubank)
- Jazz Phrases Book (David Baker right now)
- Transcription Book (currently Stanley Turrentine)
I use these things everyday, usually in this order.
For the last three, I listed the three I’m currently working on.
Those are a matter of personal preference and I have a number of those things.
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