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Re: Building stamina without playing

Author: sfalexi
Date: 2022-10-19 18:16

Are you familiar with the double lip embouchure? I used (use?) this many times to check that I wasn't biting down and was instead focusing on embouchure pressure.

You can also look up saxophone embouchures. One common embouchure is to form an O with your lips, and use the muscles of your mouth and lips, and NOT your teeth.

You can absolutely have a clarinet mouthpiece and form an O and keep your muscles in shape without having your actual teeth EVER touch the top of the mouthpiece. And you can practice this way too if need be!

If the no biting rule is specific to not putting pressure on TEETH, I'd suggest a double lip embouchure style for maintaining your endurance and keeping your muscles in shape.

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