Thanks. I, and many others, can identify with your experiments on the side. I’ve really liked how Greg has developed MTM content to present strategies, how-to, encouragement and reinforcements to help us stay the course with his core approach, while being thoughtfuland realistic about how other ideas are considered. I’m trying to devote more tim…[Read more]

@johnelwood I may have misled regarding using “burst of lung and throat air.” This only refers to my efforts at stab notes. The question in my post is focused on Greg’s demonstrations at 8:08 to 9:20 in the Compression Depression video linked above. Otherwise, I think I am good with passive air above the staff, within my current range const…[Read more]

Two ideas here, not sure they hit the mark on this thread, but thought I’d share.
1. I arranged 30 second segments of the drone MP3s Greg offers on the site into 3 groups, 1/2 steps rising from C-G, G-C, C-G, with a 60 second rest between each group. Makes for a nice 13 minute long tone exercise at the end of the day.
2. Play one of Greg’s…[Read more]

Watching the Compression Depression video linked above is making me wonder about something that I noted and forgot about the first time through the course (I am new since Nov 20). Greg demonstrates “mouth compression” and produces decent-sounding notes at various pitches, several above the staff. When I use strictly mouth compression–not adding…[Read more]

I use TE Tuner for iOS and love it. It has many, many features, including metronome, recording. I think it is also available for Android. You can find details here: https://www.tonalenergy.com.