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Re: Lower Lip Problems

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2010-06-11 15:04

One thing you might give some attention to is why when you take more lip over your teeth it "seems to make my corners pull out too far, so that I get air leakage." In general, taking more lower lip shouldn't "make" you do that at the corners - different muscles control each. There are still other muscles involved around the entire circumference of the mouthpiece that you may not be using much if at all. Check to see where the corners are and what they're doing when your lip is in each of the two positions. See if you can get more lip pulled in *without* changing the corners or stretching them apart (away from the mouthpiece, allowing air to escape). Just to feel which muscles do what, try stretching the corners out with less lip pulled in to duplicate the air leak with less lip over your teeth.

It sounds as though you're concentrating too much on one area of the embouchure (lower lip) and not controlling the rest.

Good luck,
Karl

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