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Re: Squeaking student

Author: Exiawolf
Date: 2018-03-31 20:49

I struggled with this exact problem for a while! What fixed it for me was realizing that my throat was closing up whenever I tried to play high E. The problem got worse and worse because I would tense up more and more thinking that E “was a hard note to play”. What fixed it for me was working to be as relaxed as possible when playing E (not thinking about it being too high), actively working to relax and open my throat, and furthermore finding the correct voicing by doing an excercise where I would play a low c and go up to the clarion G, altissimo E and A without using the register key (all voicing). Perhaps he is having the same problem?

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