| Re: How to play higher notes with no pressure.
The pressure should be the minimum required to seal your chops to the mouthpiece. What you want to avoid is smashing the mouthpiece into your face using brute force thereby thinning the lips to achieve the higher note.
The tounge position helps act as a venturi speeding the air up as it passes over it. Higher notes require higher frequency vibrations, higher frequency vibrations are aided by air traveling at a higher rate of speed.
Think of a Jet Engine.
__________________ Stan J. What is to reach the heart must come from above. If it does not, it will be nothing but notes, body without spirit. --Ludwig van Beethoven Music is God's best gift to man. The only art of heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to heaven. --Letitia Elizabeth Landon  |