Incase you guys are wondering how my routine is going, here is what's up. I've been practicing for 2-6 hours a day. At first I started to do 1 hour long sessions with long breaks but now I'm only doing 30 minute long sessions. My whole objective is to keep my lips fresh for the entire day so that I can play more that way. Before, I was wasting my chops by the 2nd practice session. Anyways, I've been doing my daily warm up and lip slurs. It usually takes me about 30 minutes to do my warm up and then I usually spend a good 2-4 hours on the lip slurs. As you can probably imagine my flexibily has gotten real real good. I'm probably lip slurring better then when I was doing the Claude Gordon routine or maybe at the same level. I'm not quite sure but everyday I've been seeing constant improvement. Today during the warm up I mouthpiece buzzed a double Ab and then I hit a high F# on the trumpet. But since too me range isn't really that important I'm more concerned about trying to get as flexible as Mr. Blount. I still have a lot of work to do. I feel like as if I'm in a constant competition with my self. Everyday I push my self to do better then yesterday. I think this is something new that I wasn't doing before. Anyways, after I'm done my lip slurs I do the etude that was assigned to me. I can play that pretty good, but not as strong as I would like to play it. The etude is pretty high for me. Actually it's right within my range. The etude stays up in the upper register the entire time. The purpose of it is to get me use to playing up in that register and just not hit the note but to be able to play the note. It's a very interesting but logical approach, but hey! it works! After I'm done the etude I usually pull out a song and play it or sometimes I do some sight reading.