Well interesting!! These days I struggle to "get any notes at all" :) I wouldn't worry to much about the high notes. If you can get them on some days and not others, just try and analyze what might be different on those days you can't. To much practice can really axe the highs on the next day.
Al studied with me a couple of summers at Brevard. He is an incredible horn player. Milton Milton Kicklighter 4th Horn Buffalo Philharmonic Retired ________________________________ From: William Bard <[email protected]> To: The Horn List <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, June 27, 2011 5:42:35 PM Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Articulation and 'airy' sound issues Great idea. Right now I'm struggling with my two extremes in the range, high and low. My mid range is great, but on some days I just feel like I can't play high. This will hopefully shape up the more I play when I get to college. Some days, high C's are no sweat, and other days I dread even thinking of attempting above a G on top of the staff. My low range is okay, but there's a gap/notable shift in my embouchure from around low D to C. I can play all the way down to pedal E or so, but I almost seem to require a completely different set for C and under... I had a lesson earlier this year with Al Spanjer where he said the key is to basically find an embouchure that will work for just about any note, high or low. He went on to demonstrate how he could hit each note with 3 or so different sets. I think that this could definitely help me, but only time will tell. I just really need to get consistency in the bag. -William On Jun 27, 2011, at 5:32 PM, valerie wells wrote: > I learned a lot from Milton while in San Francisco. Milton really has a lot > of experience with embouchure issues. We had an appointment set for Friday > evening to further discuss things he had learned about his chops through the > years, but hubby and I got stuck at the peer for over an hour waiting for > trains, so I didn't get my time with Milton. Hopefully in Denton, Milton > and I can take up where we left off in SF. > > Anyway... one of the things Milton shared that really resonated with me as > the promoter of BE, is the importance of keeping balance. He told how he > had at one time used a very rolled in setting on both horn & trumpet that > gave him a fabulous high range, but eventually morphed into this overly > rolled in monster that limited his flexibility. (Please correct me if I've > got it wrong, Milton.) This reinforced the BE idea of daily practicing both > extremes (roll-out & roll-in) to keep things balanced, possibly preventing > either extreme (roll-out or roll-in) from taking over. > > Val > -- > Valerie Wells > The Balanced Embouchure Method > http://bebabe.wordpress.com/ > http://www.beforhorn.blogspot.com/ > > Message: 4 > Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2011 12:08:19 -0700 (PDT) > From: Milton Kicklighter <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [Hornlist] Articulation and 'airy' sound issues > To: The Horn List <[email protected]> > Message-ID: > <[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 > > Bill, what happened to me was this:? I was doing a lot of mouthpiece > buzzing... > which I have always done and still do... but had let the tip of my > tongue?move > up from the very?the bottom of my mouth to right behind my teeth.? I had > done?this so gradually that I did not notice the change.? But it had a major > change on my horn sound.? > > > Try this:? buzz on your mouthpiece and gradually move your tongue up behind > your > teeth and then back down into your mouth.? You should notice a radical > change in > the sound of the buzz.? > > ? > Milton > > Milton Kicklighter > 4th Horn Buffalo Philharmonic > Retired > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at >https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/wdbard%40me.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/kicklighgter%40yahoo.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
