| Re: Wayne Bergeron masterclass at NTHS
Well, Bear, let's see if I can get this right.
Wayne told a story to the kids about a session on which he was sitting between Malcolm Mcnabb and John Lewis. It was a legit session and Wayne was designated the principle player. There was one hugley exposed section where he had to come in ppp on a G on top of the staff. He said he'd rather come in fff on high A instead of this. Well, he cuffed it several times and ended up passing the part to one of the legit hotshots who nailed it.
Wayne said it was the most embarassing moment of his life and decided to get some lessons with McNabb in order to straighten things out.
McNabb told him he was setting up for fff - big open aperture and tyrying to play softly on it. Instead, McNabb used a smaller aperture and much less air to play delicately - no big wedge thing going on. In short, it was a different style of playing from what Wayne was used to using. Bergeron has since mastered the ability to cross over. It was a very interestin discussion.
Bergeron also emphasized the use of the methods of Shew and Maggio, including the wedge and pucker set.
If more ideas come back to me, I'll share. The class was only 40 minutes and when I was hanging with him, I was bugging him about the biz more than the playing.
TTFN
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