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Goldenchops55
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PostPosted: Thu Mar 14, 2002 6:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hello all,
I have been using MCFB for about 2 weeks now and I hit my first High F last tuesday night during seconds routine. I was wandering if i am doing something wrong. I am a very wet player and it is not unusual for me to wipe my mouth several times while playing a couple of measures. During the six note study and seconds, my mpc will start to slide around. My bottom lip will start to slide out while i am playing. During the middle of the rest, I will have to pull my bottom lip back into the mpc. Is this bad? I know you are supposed to keep mpc, on at all times and I do, even while pulling my bottom lip back in. I am seeing good results, but I would like to know if I am hindering possible results by pulling my bottom lip back in. Thanks.
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PostPosted: Fri Mar 15, 2002 6:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Don't tuck your bottom lip back in. Just keep playing no matter what happens until the sound stops. One of the things that can cause the sound to stop is if the bottom lip falls out of the mouthpiece...Oh, well! This used to happen to me all the time when Carmine first started giving me the chromatic pedals (along with an irresistable urge to scratch my nose).

If your lips (or your jaw, or your mpc. placement, or anything else) wants to move around that is OK. This is your unconscious mind experimenting with different strategies in its quest for your balance. As long as you attach no emotional significance to this or see it as a problem it won't be a problem.

This is in large part how the studies work their magic. The unconscious mind causes your body to experiment with different strategies in an attempt to more efficiently meet the demands your conscious mind is placing. If the new strategy works it will become a new habit through repetition and gradually displace the old method. If it doesn't work the unconscious mind files it under strategies to be avoided. In this way the Caruso studies cause evolutionary embouchure changes (and everything other kind of physical change that might be required) without going through the self-conscious trauma of physical analysis.

Keep your conscious mind out of this part of the process. The conscious mind demands the calisthenics be played with a perfect sense of timing and keeps the blow going. This should be 95%+ of what your are consciously thinking. The conscious mind might use the remaining small percentage to observe what results in a detached and calmly unemotional manner, but it will be counter-productive for the conscious mind to get involved with issues of motor control or evaluation.

Read the Inner Game of Tennis!

[ This Message was edited by: PH on 2002-03-15 09:42 ]
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