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PostPosted: Mon Jun 03, 2002 6:51 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Which embouchure do you think would best achieve playing the upper register the fastest?
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 03, 2002 9:17 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Most of it depends on your mouth and teeth formation.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 03, 2002 10:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This depends ENTIRELY upon the individual.
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 03, 2002 11:26 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The one that utilises YOUR natural chop set up right off the bat ...ie.. the most efficient!
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PostPosted: Mon Jun 03, 2002 5:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Everyone else has said what I agree with, but there are just a few things that I believe are not right no matter who you are.

Things such as loose corners, bulging lower lower lip on the sides, and lips that are stretched to tight are never good. They usually result in an airy and less full sound. I should know, I still suffer from it!

Of course, my trumpet teacher today showed me a lot of it is air flow too, so...

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 06, 2002 9:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I agree that tight, stretched lips are never good. But, "Things such as loose corners, bulging lower lower lip on the sides" are working really well for Maynard, Maurice Andre, and many, many other top players. Best regards, Kyle
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 9:55 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

There is no perfect embouchure.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 10:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

If we get into every tiny detail there are an infinite number of embouchures. As other posters have said, the best embouchure for you to produce the high register depends in large measure on your physiology.

That being said, there are two different primary approaches. Both involve the positioning of the lower lip relative to the upper lip. One approach is Stevens-Costello, which involves curling the lower lip inward over the bottom teeth. The other approach is Maggio, which involves puckering the lower lip outward. The concept of both is to create the beginning of the aperture tunnel in the soft flesh behind the upper lip. That flesh is easier/more flexible to vibrate than the harder/stiffer flesh of the red of the upper lip.

Please understand that these are extremely general descriptions. The Stevens-Costello and Maggio embouchures involve far more than just lip curl/pucker. However, by experimenting with both methods you can identify which method is most compatible with your physiology.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 12:10 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Post number 1.......

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 12:17 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Guidryte wrote:
There is no perfect embouchure.


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 1:15 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Maybe the OP can post an update 15 years later.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 1:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

My embouchure is perfect. I just haven't figured out how to make it work, although I've been trying for almost 50 years.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 1:59 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

JoseLindE4 wrote:
Maybe the OP can post an update 15 years later.


I didn't notice the date of the original post. I need to look at that in the future.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Fifteen years!

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 3:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 4:01 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I will say this, based upon my own experience- if you have a big overbite, you have to avoid too much of a downhill horn slant; you have to learn to be a "two lip" player. My only other thing is don't stretch your lips too thin, try to keep more lip in the mp. It is frustrating to me that my early teachers didn't recognize my embouchure flaws; I learned the corrections myself, then later private teachers corroborated it.
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PostPosted: Sun Sep 17, 2017 5:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Brad361 wrote:
Post number 1.......

Brad


SO WHAT ?
Here we go again...
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PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 5:09 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Self deleted, just not worth the aggravation.

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 18, 2017 6:41 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Miles wrote that
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PostPosted: Tue Sep 19, 2017 12:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It has usually been proven difficult for trumpet players to severely alter their embouchures and achieve rapid results.

Granted it happens. Roy Roman effectively the direct "heir" to the Stevens-Costello triple C embouchure technique is someone who swiftly changed his embouchure and near immediately played] great. However for every Stevens-Costello success story?

There are about four dismal failures. Having said that? You might want to dabble in such a setting just to see if you have the necessary physiology capable of pulling it off. Stevens-Costello is a foward jaw setting and as such most cats cant use it. Why? I have long speculated that in order to pull the Stevens embouchure you're going need an upper lip texture which is very soft. Thus easy to get the air vibrating.

In general the fastest way to add notes to your musical sounding upper register?

A. Work on your stance and breathing. Study both Maynard's video on air support and stance. When I started with my last fulltime big band I literally forced myself to stand and lean back as how Maynard describes various places on Youtube. You won't believe that stance and breathing are major players in your blow until you finally get serious and enforce as essential M/F's breathing and stance habits.

B. Choose a mouthpiece better suited for upper register work. Because the trumpet player who can spend more time in the upper register will certainly build his register faster. That's on average. If you're having trouble adjusting to shallower/smaller equipment? Just start your gigs or rehearsals on your main mouthpiece. However as you get tired out working the bigger piece? Prepare to put the "screamer piece" into the horn. And what inevitably happens is that you'll soon start switching over to the screamer piece earlier and earlier in the night. Until at some point you start the night with it. Use this procedure every time you switch to something smaller or shallower. Dont concern yourself with the edgy tone the small piece creates. As you can always have the back-bore and throat widened by the professionals. Having a more open throat and back-bore was one reason why Maynard sounded so big in every register.

Smaller mouthpieces require "smarter chops". Their shallow size limits the variables involved with playing well. So the shallow piece will likely dictate to you what you need to do to pull off the gig. I suppose you could say that "shallow pieces will better educate a trumpet player". Its been my experience that the mere fact that we're open to trying a new piece? The more this screamer piece helps us learn...

C. Practice your fake books up a minor third, perfect 4th and 5th and lastly an octave higher. And as Maynard said,

"You dont own any note in the upper register until you can play it romantically".

Rest at least as often as you play. Because playing the fake book an octave or even just a fiftth higher is very strenuous. That and likely to induce swollen, over-trained chops.

Articulation studies in the lowest of registers, like Low G and F# will broaden that tone up.

D. Schedule at least two rehearsal sessions per week in a big band or taxing other group. Two per week. Even if all you want to do is to focus on high notes. As we tend not to push ourselves hard enough on our own. Not unless there's someone looking over our shoulder...

E. Study the basic physiology of embouchure and umderstand the 2 aperture theory as described in live video by William Moriarty. Is on Youtube somewhere. As an FYI Bill Moriarty wrote the preface and most of the text for Roy Stevens books.

F. An over-trained embouchure is a huge handicap. Depending upon the extremes of overuse you may reach. Because the only treatment for O/Trained chops is plenty of rest. And while you're resting and getting over your O/T chops? You cant be improving. The chops must first drain of lactic acid, rest, regroup and start over.

Instead of over-doing it? Practice heavy one day, light the next. Heavy, light, Heavy, light.

Thats it for now..
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