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Mr. Benge
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 Posted: Mon Nov 14, 2011 9:33 am Post subject: Doing it right feels different?? |
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| My range has finally started clicking lately. About a year ago I started playing around w. a little bit different embouchure type, maybe a little more rolled in, for high stuff. Slowly started intergrating it into gigs and lately things have really started working well. I almost feel like my regular embouchure is slowly becoming a cross between the two, which seems to not be an issue really, not for my style of playing anyways. Lately, it seems as if I've started dialing in "the feeling". For a while, F#'s and G's were popping out accidentally, but finally it's happened enough so that I think I'm starting to understand the mechanics behind it when I "do it right". All this to get to my question, and let me see if I can explain this in a way that makes sense. Obviously, up to about high C or so, I am "buzzing" the notes, putting my lips together and using a lot of buzz energy to produce an actual buzz. But when going up high around E or higher, it's almost like you barely touch the teeny tiny tips of the lips together and the effort and buzz is MUCH smaller. It's almost like if I were to try and use the same "buzz power" I do down low, it would blow the lip setting apart. It just seems like when a good high note pops out, it's a very precise, very tiny movement of the lips squeezing together w. just a tiny little burst of air popping out. This is about as good as I can do right now, just wondering if this sounds familiar to anyone else out there who went through this? Thanks for the help! |
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mkowb896
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ya...its interesting you talk about the very tips of lips vibrating when playing in the upper register...
I work on whisper g's in the staff and going above the staff. This engages that fleshy tip of the lip which is where those high notes come from.
I also find that in order to support the tips of the lip vibrating, the corners and muscles under the bottom lip need to be brought slightly in to hold that lip into position.
when I do that correctly, nothing feels greater!! |
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trumpetteacher1
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| Posted: Sun Dec 04, 2011 8:14 am Post subject: |
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It sounds like you are stumbling (positively) into concepts that are covered in detail in The Balanced Embouchure.
Congratulations!
Jeff |
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Qnaza
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Great story to remind me why I keep trying to improve in small steps.
Today was one of those days, when just playing a normal C scale felt like push-starting a car up a hill... with me asking why the heck I do this... and keep coming back to it for more... 
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