Superchops Embouchure

deleted_user_a4a6e56 · New Member Joined: 03 Apr 1996 Posts: 0

I am using the Superchops Embouchure for some weeks and the results are amazing. I can play up to DHC with a fat bright sound. I am so happy. Who else is using this embouchure?

musiclifeline · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 12:03 pm Post subject:

Contact Lee Adams for access to the SuperChops forum.

How high could you play before using this embouchure?
Did you study with someone or by yourself?

deleted_user_a4a6e56 · New Member Joined: 03 Apr 1996 Posts: 0

Before I could only play up to high D, sometimes high E. I did it myself (and I still do)!

musiclifeline · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 12:53 pm Post subject:

and the SC method let you play a big DHC in a few weeks?

histrumpet · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2003 1:24 pm Post subject:

Congrats,

This progress is not a common thing but it does happen, Tom Turner will be the first to tell anyone he was the exception, not the rule. Does lightening strike twice? Looks like it.

Have fun with your new found range.

Bruce

Hornman · New Member Joined: 05 Feb 2003 Posts: 6

It is wonderful how progress sometimes works. I know when something just clicks and you are there. Then you work for months and months and nothing seems to happen. Never know how things seem to work.

Lex Grantham · Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2003 5:25 pm Post subject:

I think when someone is able to have excellent results with SC in only a few weeks, something great must have already been happening. But there are those in the world that have proper traits for many things to benefit some more quickly than others.

Congratulations!

Sincerely,

Lex Grantham

[ This Message was edited by: Lex Grantham on 2003-08-19 20:26 ]

oj · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 12:43 am Post subject:

trumpetfun,

You said: "I am using the Superchops Embouchure..."

What do you mean?
Is it the new TCE (tongue controlled embouchure) you have used or is it the "old" one that Callet called "SuperChops" ?
(as demonstrated on a video and in a book from 1987)

What specific things did you do (exercises, etc.) that got you a strong DHC ?
Can you play up there?
(melodies, etc.)

Ole

govsecrets · Regular Member Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 49

what is the Superchops Embrochure?

oj · Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2003 11:03 pm Post subject:

The Superchop Embouchure is developed by Jerome Callet.

Here is an interview I had with Callet:

http://abel.hive.no/trumpet/interview/callet/

From there you will find link to more info about Callet.

Ole

P.S.
"trumpetfun", I'm still waiting for an answer to my question (see above)

deleted_user_a4a6e56 · New Member Joined: 03 Apr 1996 Posts: 0

Hi oj,

I use the new TCE. No, I didn't do any special exercises. (Look at Callet's Website - there it is described how to use the embouchure.) The only thing to do is: let the air do the work and use as less mouthpiece pressure as possible. That's it!!!

Hope that helps!

Markus

oj · Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2003 5:29 am Post subject:

Thanks for the reply, Markus.

Your URL is incorrect, btw. The correct one is (if you are Markus Exenberger):

http://www.trumpetfun.at.tf/

Austria and Germany, hm...
Callet and Civiletti will give a clinic in Germany soon.
Maybe you could travel up there?
If what you claim is true, both men will be very impressed.

The clinic is in Altenberge, Germany, the second week of September.
More info on http://www.super-chops.com/

Ole

dbacon · Heavyweight Member Joined: 11 Nov 2001 Posts: 8592

The only thing to do is: let the air do the work and use as less mouthpiece pressure as possible. That's it!!!

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Totally agree with that! It's been a basic principle of good brass playing forever. Make the air do the work and don't mash the chops. I heard Maynard say that about a hundred years ago. He was right then, it's right today!!

David · Veteran Member Joined: 22 Nov 2002 Posts: 379

Yeah, but I'm not sure MF wasn't using quite a bit of pressure - I've read some unconfirmed posts that he used enough to cause himself several problems over the years. I don't know any facts - it would be great if someone who does would post. I do know it LOOKS like he uses a lot of pressure and a TON of air - his whole body seems to be behind that sound.

BTW - if you've only heard him on record and were never lucky enough to see him in person, you have no idea how great he really sounds - I never heard it anywhere close to being captured on a recording.
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dbacon · Heavyweight Member Joined: 11 Nov 2001 Posts: 8592

When Maynard told me his "don't mash the chops, make the air do the work" this was maybe late 60's early 70's at a trumpet clinic. He was still in his prime, and he sounded unbelievable live. He was doing the body pivot thing, and holding the trumpet with as few fingers as possible etc. This is a man who's the greatest brass player of the 20th Century, but his playing today is not the same. It's tremendous, but in his prime he was very efficient in his tone production. Air speed to burn, amazing sound all over the horn.