Hi guys,
Thank for the feedback. Paul is a great teacher with some great ideas. I’m also totally on board with what everyone is saying. I guess for me personally, I wonder if my mpc diameter is quite right for allowing my lips to oscillate in the m2m way. It feels like my mpc kind of pushes some of my bottom lip tissue over my bottom teeth which…[Read more]

Hey Greg,
I’ve just got to the first exercise at Andante (C adding Eb then Ab) and it has, coupled with playing outside of the windworks practice, made me more aware that my bottom lip gradually slips between my teeth and eventually blocks my air stream. I’m definitely not clamping or forcing the air but the whole thing just shuts off. Could it…[Read more]

Hi Greg,
All of the breathing , releasing air, backswing etc is making sense and I really get it. I’m going slowly through the largo stage and being patient.
I’m working at mmmmaaaahoooh and again, it makes sense but when I’m playing it feels like my mouthpiece is sitting at a point on my bottom lip that pushes it back over my teeth, I think…[Read more]

Hi Greg,
I think it’s always been there on and off. I’m re watching and taking things slowly to try and stop it. I’m not deliberately doing it but my lips try and roll in themselves. I have fairly full lips and have had a running battle in my head about lip size and how that might impact playing. Also trying to ignore that.
Cheers
Thom

I think, having re watched an earlier m2m video on mpc placement and having sat with my visualizer and lead pipe (using ny nat one, hope thats ok) , that my mpc placement was a tiny bit too high to fully allow everything else to fall into place. It’s all working better but does feel odd a bit lower!