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Re: Embouchure - for adult learners!

Author: Dutchy  Date:   2009-09-21 03:33 I too am an adult beginner who has been playing for 4-1/2 years now, and I too didn't make much progress until I switched to softer reeds. My thinking was that since I was an adult, and not a child, that I ought to be playing on "Medium" reeds, but they were just too hard and I wasn't getting anywhere. As soon as I changed to "Medium Soft", I started getting ahead. So the moral is, just because you're a grownup doesn't mean your embouchure will also be automatically grownup, too. And for a long time (a LONG time) I measured my practice time in 3 to 5 minute increments, because that was as long as I could hold the embouchure. It is a fact that as you get older, you build muscle tissue slower, and at age 50 I was building muscle tissue a lot slower than the teenagers. Which was something else that took me a long time to realize.

Topics	Author	Date
Embouchure - for adult learners!  new	robinsky	2009-09-18 11:10
Re: Embouchure - for adult learners!  new	hautbois	2009-09-18 13:03
Re: Embouchure - for adult learners!  new	robinsky	2009-09-19 10:07
Re: Embouchure - for adult learners!  new	D	2009-09-18 16:33
Re: Embouchure - for adult learners!  new	mkirby	2009-09-19 08:03
Re: Embouchure - for adult learners!  new	ceri	2009-09-19 12:09
Re: Embouchure - for adult learners!  new	Wes	2009-09-20 05:18
Re: Embouchure - for adult learners!  new	Dutchy	2009-09-21 03:33
Re: Embouchure - for adult learners!  new	Ehafb	2009-09-21 13:20
Re: Embouchure - for adult learners!  new	jhoyla	2009-09-22 07:02

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