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Re: Portnoy on Embouchure

Author: Windy Dreamer
Date: 2018-11-18 06:24

Thanks Seabreeze
You seem to have answers to questions I haven't asked yet.
Michael White is definitely someone I will be spending a lot of time looking into. He sounded a lot like Evan Christopher on the video I just watched.Evan Christopher is my all time favorite player and style of play inspiration.
I have a small touch of Louisiana-Mississippi black and indian ancestry so I hope the talents are hereditary. I believe much of the unique style of New Orleans jazz stars is rooted in rejection of traditional academic influence and the willingness to experimentally go where none have gone before. I like the picture of Michael playing with a nickel between his upper lip and the mpc. Only in New Orleans would something like that be considered ordinary. Watching his embouchure in the video it seemed identical to what I have been attempting today. My last attempt sounded awful but I did learn a few things about this embouchure.Pushing the clarinet slightly in gives base undertones, pushing a little more against the teeth adds vibrato and pulling out adds overtones and eliminates vibrato in the lowest tones. The harder I try the worse I get.It seems the greatest gains are made by only playing for a minute or two once every two hours. I suppose the lips need a lot of rest as they are being retrained.

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