Author: RobinDesHautbois
Date: 2012-06-08 00:18
All the above is very excellent advice.
May I rephrase it with a slightly different twist: you just need to develop comfort with the instrument.... actually, with playing period. How is your sax and flute playing?
Whether it's the embouchure, the posture or anything, the enjoyment of playing will lead the way. Technique, exercises and so on are crucial, but they are only the building blocks: even for things like embouchure and sound, it's the inspiration that drives the rest.... striving to hear the music the way you feel it.
Now that is much more easily said than done, especially when starting a new instrument, so don't be too hard on myself. But I think just relaxing and enjoying will help with things like the cracked low note and the vibrato.
In my early student days, vibrato was still discouraged and only taught on request. In my later student days, lots of ado was made about mouth versus breath vibrato.... and different instruments seemed to do things differently. I would recommend that you start with dynamics and range before working vibrato too much: but that is only my opinion.
Biting or not, you just seem physically stressed. Relax, man, chill and have fun!
Robin Tropper
M.A.Sc., B.Mus., B.Ed.
http://RobinDesHautbois.blogspot.ca/music
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