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A list of resources for beginning/intermediate musicians!

Woodwinds 🎼

(A quick note - cork grease is an absolute must for all woodwind instruments EXCEPT the flute. Please for the love of all that is holy do not put cork grease on your flute. It will tarnish the joints and can cause them to get stuck together.)

Flute

How to Clean a Flute: DO NOT PUT CORK GREASE ON YOUR BABY.

Basic Flute Warmups

Oboe

How to Clean an Oboe

Basic Oboe Warmups

How Your Reeds Are Made: See why they’re so expensive now?

Clarinet

How to Clean a Bb Clarinet

How to Clean a Bass Clarinet

Basic and Advanced Clarinet Warmups

Bassoon

How to Clean a Bassoon

Bassoon Warmups

Saxophone

How to Clean a Saxophone

Alto Sax Warmups

Tenor Sax Warmups

Bari Sax Warmups

Brass 🎺

(Clear your spit valve regularly. Extra spit sloshing around in there will degrade your instrument over time. Besides, we can hear you gurgling and it’s not pleasant. Here’s how to clean an icky-sounding brass instrument.)

(French) Horn

Basic Horn Care: Horns need special attention because of their rotary valves. It’s important that they’re properly maintained.

A List of Horn Warmups

Trumpet

How to Clean a Trumpet

Trumpet Warmups

Trombone

How to Care for Bass and Tenor (regular) Trombones

How to Oil/Grease Your Slide

Low Brass Warmups & Maintenance

Baritone/Euphonium

Baritone & Euphonium Daily & Monthly Cleaning

Low Brass Warmups & Maintenance

Tuba

Cleaning a Tuba: If you have a rotary valve tuba, stop right there. Cleaning a rotary valve tuba the wrong way can damage it. Please see Basic Horn Care for how to maintain rotary valves. If you have a regular ol’ piston-valve tuba, see How to Clean a Trumpet.

Not sure what kind of tuba you have? Check here.

Low Brass Warmups & Maintenance

Strings 🎻

(If you’re having problems with your violin/viola/cello/bass, talk to your teacher or a luthier. Stringed instruments are delicate and can be damaged easily.)

For All Stringed Instruments:

Here’s all about rosin.

Instrument storage

Warming up

Got bridge problems?

Violin/Viola

No violin tips list would be complete without a link to TwoSet. Violas proceed at your own risk.

Violin & Viola Basic Maintenance

Violin Tuning: If you are a beginner, it’s usually not a good idea to tune using the pegs.

Viola Tuning: Again, beginners should not use pegs to tune.

A comparison of clefs

Cello

Cello Maintenance

How to Sit

Double Bass

How to take care of your monster of an instrument

Tips for Double Bass

Percussion 🥁

For All Percussion

Percussion Tips

Timpani

Weird Timpani Facts

Tuning Tips

Choir 🎤

Choral Singing Tips

Learning to Sight Read

Basic Music Theory

How to Sing in a Group

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Potatoes! 🥔

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this evening's activity has been making a honey cake inspired by the latest chapter of @hypnotisedfireflies story, where Joel and Tess try wedding cake flavours. I read it this morning, finished my classes, and dragged my partner to the shops on the way home for ingredients.

cake notes: somehow needs more honey, despite having almost 400g of honey in the cake you see above. this may be because I didn't use the really nice honey, but that is like £10 a jar and I don't have the budget to recipe test with that. recipe testing is also potentially a generous statement here given I just winged it. and then had to go to the shops again because I forgot icing sugar the first time. oops.

the spider in my parents garage: friend shaped. delightful. huge, to be clear, probably the largest native british spider I've ever seen, but proportioned in a friendly and charming way

the spider in their bloody shower: evil. cursed. why is it like that. somehow too many legs??? (still eight legs)

yes insects can be friend shaped or not friend shaped the same way snakes can be

i would like to say an apology to the poor pedestrian who walked by my yard just in time to hear me say "oh you are NOT friend shaped"

i can assure you that i was only speaking to the absolute unit of a fuck off bug that was menacing me while i was innocently trying to inspect my zucchini