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Re: Jaw Movement in Tonguing

Author: TomS
Date: 2015-04-09 05:38

I had the same issue over 35 years ago ... no one told me this was wrong until I found a good teacher that "jerked a knot in my tail". My chin, cheeks, neck modulated all over the place. Primarily the problem was too much movement of the tongue during tonguing ... and just trying to compensate for bad notes due to bad instrument, MP, reeds, ignorance and emoting. Yeah, total lack of real professional training in early days caused a lot of grief ...

I know great professional players with advanced degrees in performance that still have this facial modulation problem. It's painful to watch them play ... but they manage to get by ... just brute power through their problems ...

Robert Marcellus said: "the chin should remain very calm ..."

Tom

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