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Re: Embouchure issue

Author: laughhearty
Date: 2004-03-18 06:45

Thanks everyone for the advice.

Thank you Ron b for your offer of a box of reeds. It's really not necessary and besides I haven't a clue which brand I prefer. I've only been using Rico 1 1/2 because that's what's mostly available here in Santa Barbara.
I just got some La Voz 2's. We'll see...

But after I posted my original message and tried to put advice into action my fledgling embouchure simply fell apart. Except I didn't realize this. So my tones were sounding stuffy and I was having a horrendous time in the upper registers, squawking and squeaking.
I had 3 days of practice, 3 days of frustration. I finally realized that I needed to go back to the beginning of my method book and practice just blowing notes and working on my embouchure. I've printed out some online embouchure info which I keep on my music stand and refer to the tips before each exercise. This is really helping tremendously. I wasn't keeping my chin flat and my top lip was not hugging the mouthpiece.

Anyway, this is a long winded way to get to a really dorky joke my boyfriend told me tonight.

I said to him, "My embouchure just wasn't ready to play the exercises I wanted to. I guess I was just too ambitious."

He replied, "No, you were too "embouchious".

I told you it was dorky....

Alicia

"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my
chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great
and noble."

- Helen Keller, Author and Inspiration

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