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Re: Breathing/Embouchure Collapse Issue

Author: kdk ★2017
Date: 2015-08-10 17:24

ibemusicman wrote:

> Unfortunately, I have a hard time curling my upper lip to cover
> my top teeth. To get it to stay I have to really bite down, which
> is quite painful.

Paul Aviles wrote:

> Just a moderate amount of energy is required for a great
> embouchure. Double lip should be a piece of cake if you are
> doing a single lip embouchure correctly.
>

In my experience, forming a double lip embouchure does pretty much exactly what Paul has suggested. If actually playing double lip is painful, you might get the idea from just forming it, playing a few notes and then duplicating the feel but letting the upper lip out, keeping it against your upper teeth instead of under them. You can use double lip as a model for a single lip embouchure that takes the same approach.

Karl

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