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Double Stop 8's Play with 2 and 4 mallets

MWHS Front Ensemble Warmup 2016

Double Stopped Scales

L R L R L R L R etc

L R L R L R L

R L R L R L R L R L R L etc

R L L R L L R L L R L L

R L L R L L R L L R L R L R R L R R etc

Doublestop Thirds

Ascending 4's

Triplets

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

3 3 3 3

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

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3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

3 3 3 3 3 3 3 3

Metric Triplets

3 3 3 3

3 3 3 3

3 3 3 3

3 3 3 3

3 3 3 3

3 3 3 3

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R L R L R L R L R etc

R R etc

Green Scales

4x 4x

Scale Gauntlet

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Chromatic Sixlets

3 33

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3 3

Chromatic Gauntlet

3 33 3

3 33

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3 3

3 3

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3 3

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Double Beat

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4321

1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2

4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4

4321

1 1 1 1 etc

8 on a Mallet

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Play in reverse direction

down chromatically.

etc

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f p

POP CULTURE

sub.

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1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 1 2 3 4 etc

1 3 2 4 1 3 2 4 1 3 2 4 1 3 2 4 etc

Variation 1

etc...

Variation 2

etc...

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4 3 2 1 4 3 2 1 44 3 2 1 444 3 2 1 etc

V.S.

Variation 3

There are 24 possible variations for sticking

Please feel free to experiment.

Airflow

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