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RE: brass

Author: Lelia
Date: 1999-07-14 11:41

I'm an experienced amateur clarinet and sax player. As a beginner on cornet, I'm finding that I need to devop new muscles for the new embouchure. As someone else said, I'm finding that the two embouchures are so different from each other that I don't get them mixed up, but right now the brass embouchure tires my chops quickly. When I asked a similar question here and in trumpet forums several weeks ago, someone gave me what has proven to be very good advice: separate the practice times for clarinet and brass. If I try to play clarinet with my chops tired from practicing cornet, I play clarinet like a pig. Right now, it's working better for me to do my longer practice session on clarinet or sax first (I rotate which I play from day to day), then wait to do a short session on cornet during my lunch break. I split the cornet session into two short ones. Right now, after less than a month on cornet, I can only practice it for about 20 minutes at a time before my embouchure falls apart, so I put the horn away and then get it out again for a few more minutes in the evening. So far, I don't seem to be damaging myself physically or hurting my clarinet playing, and although I haven't been lengthening those cornet sessions yet, I do hear a big improvement. (That's the fun thing about being a beginner again: swift progress!) When there's no difference in quality and consistency of tone from the beginning of my cornet practice session until the end, then I'll start gradually lengthening the first session until I can eliminate the "two-fer" practices. Good luck with doubling!

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