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the journey from your 1.0 to your dream Avatar your desire the play that you want to be is fraught with danger traps and errors and in this video I’d like to reveal to you one of the massive errors made by a lot of brass players congratulations I’m wanting to take the shortcut to easier brass playing now I’d like to share with you one of the massive errors that people make on their Journey from their 1.0 to their desired outcome their dream Avatar that error is known
I call it as Thro have you ever been in a rehearsal or jamming with a friend at a recording at a gig and you hear the person next to you going clicking in the throat or even worse have you experienced it yourself this kind of feeling of choking in the body the world thinks that brass play’s hard work and there’s proof because things like thrul actually happen so when you learn the efficient easy way to play all of a sudden we get rid of Errors like
thrul so you can make playing a heck of a lot easier what it is is when the brain senses energy and resistance like at the instrument or lips thanks to buzzing and mouthpiece buzzing tight lips when we sense that resistance all of a sudden the brain sends a message to blow it out of the way us humans with gusto strength when I blow it out of the way and unfortunately the poor throat gets caught in the middle so every time we go to play there’s a
little release from the throat so whilst we’re not articulating with the throat it is opening and closing the Vel silver maneuver or what I call Thro articulation is really common in brass playing it does not have to exist at all and with the efficiency approaches that we work on you will eliminate the Thro culation era in absolutely no time make playing a lot easier and get to the dream Avatar that stage that you want to be on a heck of a lot faster so we want
to avoid errors and we definitely want to avoid Thro culation click this next video right here and make sure you come and check out mystery.com in the traditional methodology of brass playing there has been an obsession on looking at the ink looking at exercises and playing through books and in this video I’m going to explain to you how we use the feeling of playing to take your playing to the next level welcome to the new world of brass playing come and join us you will feel
the difference
Greg Spence discusses the throat clicking or closing sensation he calls throaticulation. This short lesson considers unnecessary resistance and the instinct to force the sound.
What does throaticulation mean in this lesson?
Greg uses the term for an unwanted opening and closing sensation in the throat during playing. He connects it with resistance, tight lips and excessive effort, and introduces a more efficient approach to sound production.
This recording is part of Greg Spence’s public teaching archive. References to dates, events and offers reflect the original recording.
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