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Re: Double lip

Author: nellsonic
Date: 2020-11-25 23:35

I've started all my beginner students on double lip for the past handful of years. Nobody has had any issues with it, and it's made embouchure a matter of much less discussion in the first few years of study, much to the better. I do tell beginners about single lip embouchure as well, as I know that is what their band directors will instruct them in. I ask them to stick with double lip for the first months of study and then experiment later if they would like. Almost all stick with double lip, including for marching band.

I've used double lip as a tool for helping older students correct embouchure issues for far longer, almost always with positive results. The only exceptions were one or two with short top lips/long top teeth and we just used a different approach. I've also had a surprising number of older student come to lessons already playing double lip, an adaptation they made themselves as beginners not liking the feeling of the top teeth vibrating on the mouthpiece.

I grew up as a single lip player and that is still my primary approach, although I do use double lip regularly in my warm-ups and occasionally in performance. I would like to work up to having equal endurance with both and still may someday.

Anders

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