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Re: St. Louis Blues

Author: sfalexi
Date: 2016-06-29 18:07

Have you changed or do you change your embouchure pressure as you practice all the registers? Your setup seems fine and I can't think of a reason why rue lepic 3.5+ wouldn't work perfectly fine.

Sometimes as people practice changing registers, they start to squeeze the embouchure a bit to make the changes "easier", but it can lead to he habit of squeezing a bit more and unwanted breaks in partials.

There's an embouchure check exercise I like to do every now and then. Play an open G with a nice forte attack. If it doesn't squeak, take in a LITTLE more mouthpiece. Attack the G again. No squeak? Put in a LITTLE more mouthpiece. Repeat until you squeak, then back out a hair. This should allow you to have the maximum amount of mouthpiece and require the least (if any) embouchure change between register changes.

Alexi

Ps- if you try the embouchure check exercise, don't be surprised if you end up with a TON more mouthpiece in that normal. Not everyone likes to play with this much mouthpiece, but it certainly makes MY life easier.

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