What on earth are you playing that is so exhausting? Or are you
neglecting your warmups?
If you haven't already damaged your lip, I imagine you are using too
much pressure. Easy to do if you have irregular teeth, like me.
I find that a few Kopprasch exercises played an octave lower than
written gets me back in good form when I've been playing lots of high
notes.
My 2 lumens.
Simon
On 2008/12/12, at 3:00, horn-requ...@music.memphis.edu wrote:
message: 2
date: Wed, 10 Dec 2008 15:45:18 -0500
from: sirgallihad <sirgalli...@gmail.com>
subject: [Hornlist] A Practicing dilemma
Hi horn listers, I've been having a sort of practicing dilemma for
the past
couple weeks, and I was hoping someone could shed some light on my
problem.
Lately, it seems like the more I practice during a day, the more I
loose the
feeling of how I "should" play horn (ie airflow, tone, embrosure
pressure,
musicality, high range, the list goes on) and I begin to feel like I'm
regressing in technique rather than getting better. I am currently
practicing for about 2 and 1/2 hrs a day, and the effect is a LOT more
pronounced when I try and ease into 3 hours a day (spread into 1 hour
chunks). When I do this, my abilities suffer greatly for the next
two days
or so, and I'm forced to play very little in order to get my sound and
endurance back. Additionally, I develop an air leak on one side of
my mouth,
which is sort of a red flag as to when I'm too tired.
If anyone could shed some light on this problem, it would be a huge
help for
me,
Sirgallihad
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