Scale practice for the whole band

One link. Every instrument.

Assign one exercise, and every student opens it in their own key, clef and range. No student accounts. Whatever you assign opens free.

Try it as the teacher

The curriculum

You send concert B♭ major. Your students open:

FluteB♭

B♭ TrumpetC

E♭ Alto saxG

Horn in FF

Nobody transposes anything. Nobody makes an account.

Try it

You’re the teacher.

Here is an assignment, ready to send. Open it as any of your students.

Your assignment
Major scale
- Concert B♭
- quarter note = 96
- One octave
This is the link you send

thewholehorn.com/practice/?wk=major-Bb-quarter-96--1&k=concert

A sample link. In the app, For Teachers makes yours. Paste it into Google Classroom, a group chat or an email.
Open it as…

Pick a student in step 3.

Their part appears here, written for their instrument.

One Sound

These aren’t just exercises. They’re music.

One scale. Every voice. Every note comes from the app’s exercises.

Voices are synthetic vocal instruments (Synthesizer V), arranged and produced by Thomas Hornig. All notation, product demonstrations and photographs are authentic.

From control to freedom

Fluency in your twelve major scales is what translates into everything else.

One good note is the only goal.

It is possible to write down on a single page the work that can take a lifetime to master.

Jazz ultimately is about freedom of movement.

The curriculum

A body of teaching work, week by week and year by year. Every exercise in it is a link.

Beginners · four weeks The First 30 Days From the first note to the twelve major scales, week by week, with the practice links. Band · October to July The First Year From the first note in October to the final exam in July. One link a week, written for every wind and brass player.

Jazz Jazz: The First 30 Days The Jazz Year The Jazz Program From the first month to the Licence and Maîtrise. Every link in concert pitch, so the whole band plays the same sounding scale.

Saxophone · nine years The Study of Saxophone The Saxophone Program A nine-year course for the modern saxophonist-doubler: saxophone, flute and clarinet.

Download the syllabi (PDF)

No student accounts. Nothing sent anywhere.

A student opens the link and plays. The app keeps each player’s practice record on their own device. A practice log can be downloaded as a CSV file, and it goes to the teacher only if the student chooses to send it.

Free means free.

A free core. Nine of the eighteen modules, including all twelve major scales, are free forever.
Assigned work opens free. Everything a teacher assigns opens free for the student.
Full Studio: $24.99, once. One optional upgrade opens the rest. No subscription.

Made by a musician and teacher

Thomas Hornig

Saxophonist and Henri Selmer Paris artist, teaching at the Lebanese National Higher Conservatory of Music since 1994.

More about Thomas Hornig

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