| Hello RB and All,
I just read your post and out of concern I wanted to write to see how you are doing now that a month has passed.
Here are my thought after reading your post:
In your first post you said,"After about an hour or two of playing my upper register gets very fuzzy and i start to have a double buzz." If that is in one session, I can understand why you are having trouble. You would be training to exhaustion. When we are tired we do strange things to keep playing. One we all know is pressing the mouthpiece into the lips. Many will also adopt the "I'm too shot to play" setting. If this is you, let me tell you: Do not change stratigies and start to change to a tenser/different way of playing to keep playing. Just rest.
Bikephan has the solution for this in saying in essence: Don't overtrain but make use of the extra time. I like what he said about sight singing. I suggest that you spend a good deal of that time singing your trumpet practice materials and solos. This is highly underdone by most of us. It seams slower, but it a very efficient way to practice.
Of course, do what Edward Carroll said and relax all you can and many such problems do disappear. Think of the sound you want more than the one coming from your horn.
(Ok. I will warn all of you that I don't want to sound alarmist so just take it for what it is worth. If that's nothing, I'm fine with that).
If you have followed all the advice in this forum and form your teacher, you have been practicing with pleanty of rest, you have not drastically increased your total playing time, and you are more relaxed than ever, then you need to be considering the possibility that you may have injured yourself to some degree. It is possible to injure the lips by playing and by accidents with or without the trumpet involved. (Playing in a Drum and Bugle Corps it is easy to unexpectedly pop yourself with the mouthpiece with a quick horn raising or hitting a hole while playing). Also you may simply have overplayed and hurt yourself. You said that last time you had taken off six weeks to mend the problem. I must assume that solved your problem last time. If you are hurt and need the rest, than rest. You can postpone a recital, but hurting yourself can be much much more problematic.
Don't get too caught up in my last statement if it does not fit the facts of your experience.
In any case please keep us up to date on your progress.
May God bless you and your playing.
Gordon H. |