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Author: slocum
Date: 2002-08-13 19:18
I was practicing a particularly difficult piece (rather quick, atonal, multi-octave jumps, etc.) and found that air was escaping from the corner of mmy lips. I slowed down and it stopped, but continued when I worked back up to the original tempo. Anything I can do to make it stop, or will I just have to live with it?
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Author: Jeff
Date: 2002-08-13 21:31
I have found that fatigue is most responsible when I start to lose air at the corners of my lips. I am told that just as the three most important factors in real estate are location, location and location, the three most important parts of clairinet playing are embouchure, embouchure and embouchure. Any time I have a problem, my instructor tells me it's my embouchure not tight enough, not pursed enough, yadda yadda yadda. But unfortunately, fixing the embouchure always seems to fix the problem so I can't rag on him too much.
You might want to stop playing for a few minutes when this happens and stretch out your mouth and lips, take a break and come back after ten minutes. Obviously, working to stengthen your lip muscles should help make the problem stay away longer.
Anyway, that's what I've done with the same problem.
Jeff
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Author: William
Date: 2002-08-13 22:05
Assuming you use a traditional embouchre, try a minute or so of practice with the double lip method. This will help you seal the corners and get more of your upper lip envolved with your playing--always a plus--and may help you solve your leak.
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