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Re: How much bottom lip pressure on the reed?

Author: Micke Isotalo ★2017
Date: 2022-02-11 23:24

McDonalds, besides listening to your tone, I would advice you to basically let your tuner guide you. That would probably be the simplest way to know when you have reached the appropriate amount of lip pressure.

I would also strongly recommend applying your lip pressure "all around" your mouthpiece, instead of just vertically (up/down). You could imagine forming your lips around your mouthpiece similarly as when you are whistling, or as when sucking through a thick straw, as a drawstring or rubber band around your mouthpiece, or as when kissing - which all are analogies of the same thing.

I've also been a biter, but the benefits of an embouchure as above have been numerous to me: Better tone, better internal tuning, better control and securer responses at low dynamics, and less rising of the pitch at the beginning of a note after an inhaling.

Post Edited (2022-02-12 21:59)

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