Convince me that aperture shape control isn't nonsense

[deanoaks]

Contact Jim Thompson at the Eastman School of Music if you are genuinely interested in understanding the concept of aperture control. You can find his email and office phone number on the Eastman faculty website. A lot of his method book and pedagogy centers around lip/air balance and aperture control.

[TKSop]

I'd go so far as to say that most trumpet pedagogy is metaphor - finding the best progress for a given player is often about either finding the right metaphors to encourage progress and/or in finding ways for the player to relate those metaphors to their subjective sensations (which the teacher ofcourse can't know).

If a given instruction/metaphor doesn't work for you, either seek understanding (ie: threads like this) or seek alternative ways to look at things to get the results you're after - the teach has value both in term of providing the lenses we think of playing through and in terms of monitoring whether these are getting us the desired results.

In many ways, the very analytical and scientific way we go about life these days is great - but often the hardest thing is relating those facts and analyses to reality, primarily in terms of the GIGO principle (garbage in: garbage out) as players we often don't know precisely what we're doing, only how we feel like we're doing it, which means we don't have the correct data to form our conclusions from, not could we accurately apply them even if we did...
In other words, it's still an art - even if the science is understood (by some), applying it may well be even more complicated...

[Robert P]

[RussellDDixon]

"Robert P"quoting "RussellDDixon - "pass the buttered popcorn."

Robert P - "Hey kid you got a ticket? Or did you sneak in through the fire exit again?"

Robert at 56 years old ... I LOVE being called a "kid." Thank you. I snuck in as usual and the popcorn is with extra butter.
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[Shaft]

Robert P-who are you? Old pedagogical wives tale. Let's see your books, let's see your resume let's see it all buddy.

Nobody gives a darn what people believe when they go home
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[Shaft]

In my initial post almost put that I thought that your post was rather demanding.

That last statement I made was quite filtered to say the least.

What do you want from all of us? You're not going to get a cookie either way
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[mm55]

Robert P issued a sort of a skeptic's challenge. It's really striking how much flack he's getting from people who cannot meet the challenge.
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[razeontherock]

But the OP is a trumpet player, which means he comes equipped with his own flak jacket.

[TKSop]

[Robert P]

[TKSop]

[Robert P]

[mm55]

[TKSop]

[mm55]

[TKSop]

[Robert P]

[Shaft]

No-my hide is not chapped. In fact, I stated that I don't give a darn what he believes because it is not chapped. I made my points and they are what they are. So I'm asking for some points that prove that it is an old wives tale and that everything that I said does not matter.

When I asked about seeing some sort of backing as far as resume or otherwise. Perhaps I should've reworded it.

Show me something that would tell me that everything that I said is total BS.

You convince me
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