Author: vboboe
Date: 2007-08-06 06:49
Hi You Two, thanks for responding
<<Minimally required pressure is the right amount>>
Happy to report i can 'huff' and (Craig's word poo, euw!) & move the leaves of my houseplants from 6ft away but 8ft not successful, so is 8ft the minimum required pressure to aim for?
don't do candles, smelly messy smoky competitors for the oxygen i need to breathe, but sure can do heavy CO2 exhale breathing on my house plants, we've got a symbiotic relationship going there
but i can't see much difference between the huff and the other unmentionable option, leaves move about the same, maybe its the way the air leaves my lips, unfocused, disperses readily?
sucking cheeks between molars, good way to keep back teeth open, if bite down, ouch!
definition of terms -- when i say air pressure i don't just mean air support. Air support is blowing naturally, like one does to sing, but air pressure is deliberately squeezing the blow (and one can do that singing too). When you say 'back pressure' that might be it, as i'd have to squeeze harder to blow 8 ft away ... so, when you do the far away 8ft thing, is belly button further out, or pulled in closer to spine?
yes, maybe i'm trying too hard just now, muscles maybe aren't fine-tuned enough yet, it's like first year fingers, stiff and big lifts off keys, rude forked F's, but as time passes and skills move along, fingers curve over keys and are more relaxed, pump up and down in smaller movements, so presume same will happen to air support if i practice my long tones daily for many months, let's say six?
Yes, i like the great Huff Test idea too for checking responsiveness, thank you!
<<the only purpose of the lips is to cushion the reed -- i.e., they are passive, padded "anchors", nothing more, nothing less>>
... ah, this is important, maybe an AHA moment, this seems to be the main difference in reed blowing style, i'm coming into this ('way back when) from the mobile lip method, so i'm supposed to be aiming for 'passive, steady embouchure'?
Can't see how to adjust pitch if embouchure is passive?
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