Describing how to play higher to a beginning student - Page 3

S-Money · 04-14-2008, 09:59 PM

All great stuff. Just dont say tense or tight... makes me shudder!

Try keeping lips and corners "firm" or something like that!

brunets · 04-14-2008, 10:43 PM

I was wondering how many of you read the essay of Claude Gordon called "Brass playing is no harder that deep breathing"...

I finally decided to order it and read it carefully and there is one this that comes often : "forget the lips".

I won't spoil your pleasure to discover the rest of the essay. Quite entertaining on some part but this is still a really serious reading on the subject.

Stéphane

oj · 04-15-2008, 02:54 AM

There are some "mantras" in brass playing.

Many of them can be usefull at times, but useless at other. Gordon is not my favourite brass teacher - Arnold Jacobs is.

His mantra (if understood) is more to the point: Song & Wind!

As Gordon, Jacobs teaching experience was that the lips was almost never the problem.

If breathing was good and the brain was focusing on the song, everything would fall into place.

Ole

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S-Money Pianissimo User Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Mechanicsburg, PA Posts: 162	Re: Describing how to play higher to a beginning student All great stuff. Just dont say tense or tight... makes me shudder! Try keeping lips and corners "firm" or something like that! __________________ Blow your life through your horn

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brunets Pianissimo User Join Date: May 2007 Location: Montreal,QC Posts: 112	Re: Describing how to play higher to a beginning student I was wondering how many of you read the essay of Claude Gordon called "Brass playing is no harder that deep breathing"... I finally decided to order it and read it carefully and there is one this that comes often : "forget the lips". I won't spoil your pleasure to discover the rest of the essay. Quite entertaining on some part but this is still a really serious reading on the subject. Stéphane

04-15-2008, 02:54 AM	#23 (permalink)
oj Pianissimo User Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Norway Posts: 84	Re: Describing how to play higher to a beginning student There are some "mantras" in brass playing. Many of them can be usefull at times, but useless at other. Gordon is not my favourite brass teacher - Arnold Jacobs is. His mantra (if understood) is more to the point: Song & Wind! As Gordon, Jacobs teaching experience was that the lips was almost never the problem. If breathing was good and the brain was focusing on the song, everything would fall into place. Ole

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