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Miss Trumpet Regular Member
Joined: 29 Mar 2007 Posts: 68 Location: Austria
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 11:19 am Post subject: Younger students with throat issues: Best practice? |
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Teaching trumpet students, „throat issues“ are something I hear/see quite often. Helping older students (16+ y.) to overcome these issues is something I usually don’t have problems with: It’s about explaining them, what is happening and what to do or change to make things work like they should. Unfortunately, this is something that doesn’t really work too good with my younger students (8-12 y.). To keep it short – they need less words and more easy & fun exercises to experience how playing the trumpet with less effort should feel. I already read and tried quite a lot and I think I am a pretty self-reflected teacher, but I have to say: I'm still not satisfied with the outcome of my pedagogic efforts with this.
I’m sure, there are teachers out there and among this online-community, who found great exercises and advices to help especially younger students to overcome throat-issues and keep them from building bad playing habits. So what about collecting some best practice examples in this thread? _________________ Dowids Bb (rotary valve)
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Richard III Heavyweight Member
Joined: 22 May 2007 Posts: 2655 Location: Anacortes, WA
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 2:56 pm Post subject: |
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Singing with a resonant sound and good projection. _________________ Richard
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Don Herman rev2 'Chicago School' Forum Moderator
Joined: 03 May 2005 Posts: 8951 Location: Monument, CO
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Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 3:50 pm Post subject: |
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Exactly. Have them sing "eeee" then "ahhhh". The "fogging the mirror" example also works. sitting, take a deep breath keeping shoulders down and relaxed and letting their belly button push out as they inhale. The old toilet paper, paper towel, or wrapping paper tube in the mouth to breathe through can help. Also check out the Breathing Gym. _________________ "After silence, that which best expresses the inexpressible, is music" - Aldous Huxley |
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clare New Member
Joined: 14 Mar 2019 Posts: 5
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Posted: Sat Mar 16, 2019 3:49 pm Post subject: |
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That's a great question. I've found it common in young students to use the throat to stop sound when articulating, especially with staccatto notes. Here's a tip to help with that issue: Have students wear tight headphones or ear plugs while they're playing. It allows them to actually hear their throat stopping the air. Awareness is the first step!
-Clare
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kehaulani Heavyweight Member
Joined: 23 Mar 2003 Posts: 9014 Location: Hawai`i - Texas
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Posted: Mon Mar 18, 2019 2:18 pm Post subject: |
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You can fog a mirror with contractions in the throat. I think of that foggy, mirror clouding mist as originating in an open throat saying a deep "aaah". _________________ "If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn." Bird
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