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hi Chris thank you for your post and this is just post your lesson uh so I’ll address a couple of things firstly uh you rais an important thing do I move further through the course even though I can’t do this with pure process I can’t get this so do I just stop doing the rest what I’m going to talk a lot about coming forward is the concept of an intentional point of difference like a really aware point of difference so I know that my process isn’t
quite right yet but when I start working through the course I can feel that I’m backing up and we spoke a lot about it in the session backing up elevating choking off so we know that the feeling that we want based on the drills that we did and then um as you start going further through the course it’s going to get worse and worse everything’s going to get engaged and lock off so uh I’m going to show a little snippet from our lesson where you realized
that the milk spout we fan those Corners after about an hour then we lift the horn up and all of a sudden a um opens up so I’ll put that in now then I’ll come back and comment uh let’s hear a Lo see okay can’t dog got a new dog awesome good company yes we I have three in here she’s the new [Music] one can I get you to lift your bell up bit more horizontal yeah get that out and get the milk spout even more
yeah yeah yeah yeah then the milk spout straight down through that yeah [Music] a yeah how does that feel feels really weird yeah i’ I’d like it to if anything let’s let’s just do a little experiment here I would like you to start off lower where You’ normally play it and then slowly bring it up to and I don’t I don’t necessarily want everyone playing out straight far from it I’ve seen marching bands destroy people from having them hold horn up there but for you I
think it needs to come up a bit you imagine that Air Stream imagine the milk spout the Air Stream out straight yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah you want me to play here and then come up right yeah have a listen to that it just it did didn’t it yeah and my my head was telling me that was it wasn’t going to do [Laughter] that that that that it was telling me that basically as I bring this up it’s going to smush my lip no spout come
out because you got your Corners working now yeah yeah that’s the business holy crap I didn’t think that would happen at all there you go that’s awesome to hear that open up now the big problem that everyone has and we mention mentioned it in our session you know my singing C logo right it’s very counterintuitive for people to think here’s our instrument sound here a here but then we’ve got this tiny hole so people can’t get their head around thinking I can get this sound that’s
an amplification of this but everyone tries to force too much energy through this tiny hole that’s why the whole concept of the body’s Concert Hall don’t blow pull the bow back release there’s no blow this is the hardest thing for people to understand there’s no blow breathe in drop release don’t blow right Corners I’m not blowing the horn and it’s just so hard for people to get their head around and you did it then and you bought the horn up just in the right to get
the milk spout out now everyone wasn’t watching the lesson of of course but the amount of time that we spent working on getting those aperture Corners in right aperture Corners in there’s no air leaking so there’s enough strength milk spout get the lips out of the way top lip like that sheet on the on the line there’s no blow and you just demonstrated it because this is an amplif amp amplification of this the concert hall but let the reflection of the energy wave I’m not blowing
here at all I’m taking a little breath stopping there with the tongue because the corners are grabbing the top lips loose like the Sheep the whole system works together I still got some brown hair but soon it’ll all be gray and I’ll be saying the same thing until it’s all gray and until it’s all gone radio great job um I’m sure that’s going to be very helpful for a lot of people to see good on you buddy if you’re a winw work subscriber you need to
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In this lesson excerpt, Greg Spence works with a player on the Milk Spout, aperture corners and the feeling of the airflow. The discussion shows how an individual adjustment can change the playing sensation.
What can you learn from this aperture corners lesson?
Greg demonstrates observing the player’s response and making a small, individual adjustment rather than applying a fixed position to everyone. He also discusses recognising when effort increases as you progress through an exercise.
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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