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Originally Posted by rowuk  The human body has a certain amount of automation built in. To my knowledge there is no "mechanism" to force relaxation though.
If you have too much residual tension in the face, I suggest a hot bath or shower, and perhaps an hour of listening to great music keeping the mouth shut, except for an occasional sip of something tasty!
There was a very heated discussion about warm up and down here at TM. Most of the pros agreed that a liquid warm down (tea, beer, wine....) was better than anything else. The non-pros spend a lot of time thinking about less significant things - time better spent behind the horn! |
Yeah, good advice. I mentioned this too in another post once. A friend of mine who plays principal tuba for BSO now told me once that he recommends heating up a clean rag and just draping that over your face for awhile. Do that a couple of times. I think that he actually said to boil the rag, but I'm not sure about that. Just get the water out of the tap as hot as you can get it, but be careful. Then put on a good lip balm and just relax. I like rowuk's advice about the drink, but just don't do that and then go play again because there's a slight chance (however small that might be) that you could be TOO relaxed then and do damaged to your lips. If you're going to have a drink, do it at the end of your day and don't touch the horn until the next day. Maybe that's pretty obvious; just making sure.