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Re: playing out

Author: Ken Shaw ★2017
Date: 2010-07-15 18:58

You've gotten good justifications for playing out. Now, practice doing it.

Begin with the swab-up-the-bell bugle call exercise:

Stuff a cotton swab up the bell, finger middle B (with the register key open), take plenty of mouthpiece, loosen your embouchure and blow like the wind. You'll get a weak 4th space Eb. Blow harder and harder until you get a decent volume.

Then find the Bb above. You do this by raising the back of your tongue and lowering the tip, lowering your jaw slightly and raising your soft palate. It's easier to do than to describe.

Then find the Eb, G and Bb and play bugle calls.

When you get these going well, take out the swab and blow the same way. You'll get volume like a hurricane.

You won't play like that all the time, of course, but it really does open things up and reveal new possibilities.

Practice being the person who plays out. Stand in front of a full-length mirror and watch yourself as if you were someone else. Do it with a clown nose on. Give a Tarzan yell before and after. Do it naked. Do it as a professional wrestler. Show off. Surprise and amaze everyone who didn't know you had this in you.

Ken Shaw

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