Valdis Bizuns started the topic Teaching Tuesdays Live. in the forum WindWorks 7 months, 3 weeks ago
Hello!
I am new here and I would like to get some info about „Teaching tuesdays live“. How does it work? Do we get some email with zoom-link or how/where can I find it? At what time (Time zone?) does it take place?
Thanks in advance for your answers and best regards
Valdis
Rob Medina replied to the topic Is my pivot backwards? in the forum WindWorks 7 months, 4 weeks ago
Chris and Hajo,
Thanks for the insight! I agree there is a lot to the equation. I think I am on the right track with getting rid of forward jaw movement and jaw tension. I also don’t expect it to happen in the span of a few weeks or months. The MtM course has brought a lot of awareness to the limitations of my previous playing style and that is…[Read more]
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Christopher Hall replied to the topic Is my pivot backwards? in the forum WindWorks 8 months ago
Thank you, Hajo!
Hajo replied to the topic Is my pivot backwards? in the forum WindWorks 8 months ago
Christopher
I made the same way you described.
Watching Charly Porter and following his exercises.
Observing the embouchure of good players
Imitating there sounds etc.
Today I know that every player is different.
Every player looks different
What we can see is only the outside part of the embouchure.
After MtM I know that it is not important…[Read more]
Christopher Hall replied to the topic Is my pivot backwards? in the forum WindWorks 8 months ago
Rob,
I’ve always played the same way as what you are describing.
I’ve spent the last 18 months trying to change this, just over 12-months of it looking at MTM. I’ve made some progress, but not there yet, and don’t really know the answer.
However, I don’t think that trying to play ‘down’ is necessarily the answer in itself, though.
For me,…[Read more]
Hajo replied to the topic Is my pivot backwards? in the forum WindWorks 8 months, 1 week ago
How long have you been working through MtM.
It seems to me that you are very frustrated.
Although I can understand you I would like to give you an advice.
Stay in the process and concentrate on every tiny explanation from Greg.
I could improve my playing during the last two years and I am sure you will make it , too.
Frustration can be a good…[Read more]
Rob Medina replied to the topic Is my pivot backwards? in the forum WindWorks 8 months, 1 week ago
Hi Hajo,
I’ve been working through the MTM course and I can tell I’m not as efficient as I know I should be. As I progress higher my jaw starts to move forward. This is not the intention I believe Greg has when he says to keep the lips forward, milk spout, etc. However, it’s a habit I have had for a long time so it is difficult to change. I am…[Read more]
Hajo replied to the topic Is my pivot backwards? in the forum WindWorks 8 months, 1 week ago
Hi Rob
I recommend to you to start immediately with Greg Spence MtM and you will learn a new Technik to play the trumpet.
I learned his method during the last two years. Today I am able to play hours. My range improved incredible up to high g.
I am going to quit the program by the end of this month.
If you like please contact me…[Read more]
Rob Medina started the topic Is my pivot backwards? in the forum WindWorks 8 months, 1 week ago
Hi all,
I am wondering if anyone has come up with this in their own teaching or practice. Through over 20 years of playing, music school, and playing since then, I have had the habit of pivoting upward when I ascend in range. My jaw pushes very far forward, it is not comfortable, and I know it is wrong. It has always held me back and I have pretty…[Read more]
Henry Zielinski started the topic lip buzzing in the forum WindWorks 8 months, 1 week ago
Is lip buzzing without bracketing the aperture with the fingers as useful as “free buzzing” (knowing that pinching the middle of the lips is NOT the way to go)? I can free buzz until the cows come home but as soon as I place my fingers on my upper lip at the aperture corners the buzz stops. Please advise.
V/r
HANK
Hajo replied to the topic Questions on Embouchure formation and the "Milkspout" in the forum WindWorks 9 months, 1 week ago
That sounds good Jerome
It seems you are on the right way.
You are right to increase volume you have to activate your body but not to much.
To play higher only corners in and experiment with your tongue.
jerome.home13 replied to the topic Questions on Embouchure formation and the "Milkspout" in the forum WindWorks 9 months, 1 week ago
Hajo,
I think it’s ok for me from low C to E (top staff), passively and very soft sound. But when I have to activate for a louder sound (not FFF) and/or to play higher, I don’t understand how to do with coners, aperture and top lip (bottom lip is ok with milk spout).
Is the first goal is to have soft sounds, for each note, “only” with corners,…[Read more]
Hajo replied to the topic Questions on Embouchure formation and the "Milkspout" in the forum WindWorks 9 months, 1 week ago
Jerome
don’t think to much about the position or movement of the top and bottom lip.
I recommend to concentrate on the idea of aaaaaoooo and the feeling of milk spout.
With that movement ( horizontal) you can learn to play from nonote to low note and pitch change.
You have to learn the process and to practice the process first.
In my o…[Read more]
jerome.home13 replied to the topic Questions on Embouchure formation and the "Milkspout" in the forum WindWorks 9 months, 1 week ago
Hi,
I have the same problem and was wondering the same thing.
I have trouble “tightening” the corners while leaving the middle of the top lip completely free.
I must be missing something. 🙂
The concept of “No sound” is easy to understand, but that of “No top lip”, as you can hear Greg say in the videos, is less obvious.
It was actually a question…[Read more]
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Hajo replied to the topic Questions on Embouchure formation and the "Milkspout" in the forum WindWorks 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Hello Rob
The idea of the feeling and using of your top lip is the bedsheet.
The top lip reacts on the airflow.
You have to learn and practice the feeling of aaaaaaoooo to change the pitch first.
With the top lip ( bedsheet) and the bottom lip (Milk spout)
That will give you mor and more a good relaxed feeling to play a passive low c
Hope that…[Read more]
Rob Medina started the topic Questions on Embouchure formation and the "Milkspout" in the forum WindWorks 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Hi everyone,
I am working through the WindWorks course and noticing my tone gets very fuzzy (the same way it has for years) and I am wondering how you conceptualize the milkspout but for the top lip. I’d rather address this now before I get too much deeper into the course. I am wondering if I need to keep it flat against my top teeth or not. I…[Read more]
Greg Spence started the topic Sunday Sessions LIVE June 11th in the forum WindWorks 9 months, 3 weeks ago
Hi all, emails have been sent with login information for this week’s sessions.
Cheers,
Greg
Greg Spence started the topic June 4th and 6th in the forum WindWorks 9 months, 4 weeks ago
Hi team, Sunday Sessions MASTERCLASS and Teaching Tuesdays LIVE details have been emailed.
Cheers,
Greg