| Believe it or not, results usually come very quickly for me doing this - the last 4 - 5 days have worked a small miracle, but I'm not quite there yet.
As for pulling off the pressure, I just kept working at it. I would pull off some pressure, and the tone would break down into a double buzz, so then I would reapply just enough pressure to get the tone to sound correctly again - sound quality was important too.
Anyway, in the third day of doing this, I could control the sound again without it breaking down into a double buzz, and last night, I had it to the point where I could pull the mouthpiece completely off of my lips so that my lips were still buzzing, and then "walk" the mouthpiece back in until I got a solid tone.
I've done this before, so I had an idea of how to approach it. Tomorrow night will be the true test because I have a gig. All I want at this point is to be able to play the ink and not chop out. Nothing fancy, no 8va, just the ink with good sound, good intonation and good endurance.
It's going to take a few weeks, but I know that it will help because I have done this in the past.
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