| Lip Bends?
Dear Ed,
What is your opinion on using lip bends as conditioning exercises? Have you worked much with lip bends. Have your students had success with this?
About 2 years ago, I did them very consistently for about 6 months and found them beneficial. I used Mr. Hickman's exercises from his "Lessons with David Hickman" volume. About 2 months ago, I went back to doing them very consistently as Mr. Hickman prescribes as part of the last session of the day at a loud volume.
Recently, I've been experimenting with using lip bends in a similar fasion as prescribed by Mr. Hickman but at a much softer dynamic and earlier in the day as part of my "morning fundamentals" sessions. I've found this to be good at quickly focusing my aperture similar to buzzing the mouthpiece.
What are your thoughts?
Thanks,
Mike Blutman |