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Viktoras Regular Member
Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Posts: 31
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 5:13 am Post subject: Energetic air |
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Pat, in the first post of the sticky thread "A Balanced Approach to Playing" you said that:
"The primary focus is first and foremost on sound and secondly on a free and energetic delivery of the air. "
I can understand that you can work on your sound awareness by listening to great players and imitating them, but how Bill Adam and his students proceed in improving the delivery of air and making it more energetic? |
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Tradeoff Regular Member
Joined: 08 Nov 2004 Posts: 64
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Posted: Wed Jul 20, 2011 11:08 am Post subject: |
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I was always told to "spin" the air THROUGH the horn/sound, and that the sound floated on the air/breath. |
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PH Bill Adam/Carmine Caruso Forum Moderator
Joined: 26 Nov 2001 Posts: 5860 Location: New Albany, Indiana
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:37 am Post subject: |
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I can't think of anything Mr. Adam did specifically to directly have us work on our air. His standard approach to everything was usually...
1) Focus on sound. Listen to the right models.
2) Mr. Adam often says that 90% of trumpet playing is mental. Of the remaining 10% (physical aspects) 9% is breath and the remaining 1% covers everything else. Therefore the breath is 9 times as important as all the other physical aspects combined. Just this awareness makes a difference.
3) Adam often uses visualizations in addition to demonstration to create physical changes without getting the student's mind into dangerous analysis/paralysis.
4) The playing under water trick can be used occasionally to give a visualization of the airflow and increase awareness.
5) Focus on a full inhalation (without describing mechanics) and no hesitation before changing the direction of the air flow.
6) Keep the air in motion.
7) Adam also used some illustrations that he drew from his background in martial arts.
Other things are at least hinted at here. http://everythingtrumpet.com/Bill-Adam/articles/ClinicAddress.html _________________ Bach trumpet artist-clinician
Clinical Professor of Jazz Trumpet, University of Illinois
Professor Emeritus of Jazz Studies, Indiana University Jacobs School of Music
Faculty Jamey Aebersold Jazz Workshops 1976-2019
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Nonsense Eliminator Heavyweight Member
Joined: 03 Feb 2003 Posts: 5212 Location: Toronto
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Posted: Thu Jul 21, 2011 9:58 am Post subject: |
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I would agree with Pat -- while occasionally Mr. Adam would talk about the inhalation, the exhalation is directed by the sound. _________________ Richard Sandals
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