The Glidd Heavyweight Member
Joined: 22 Aug 2003 Posts: 1329 Location: Humanity Towards Others
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Posted: Mon Apr 11, 2005 8:13 pm Post subject: Stamp and Caruso 2nds. |
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I put this up in Caruso, too. Any thoughts?
I've recently added some Caruso to my playing and am trying to reconcile some things from a Stamp (at least as I've understood it) point of view.
A couple of presuppositions from Stamp:
When you begin a note, you're lips are touching. You blow, your tongue compresses the air (or not, if you're on a breath attack), the air reacts with the lips and a sound is created.
When you rebreathe, you're trying to achieve (at least) two things:
1. A breath
2. Get the lips back together to set-up for the next phrase/ note.
Now, when doing the second excercises (or any of the other Caruso intervals), I play, faithfully keep the breath through the nose, no motion on the rest, etc, but as I ascend, my lips are blown farther and farther apart. Since I'm not meant to remove the mouthpiece (where I would normally reset doing Stamp), the lips never have any opportunity to retouch. By the time I'm above the staff, I feel like I'm blowing through a PVC pipe (my lips), which is good since I feel the lips toughening up, but then again other tension begins to creep into the sound and production.
Then when I miss an interval, I begin at the miss, usually with a better result since I've had time to reset the lips and let them touch again.
I guess my question is, it seems that the goal is to keep the lips touching throughout each exercise, but how can I, when I'm constantly blowing them apart? |
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