Steve,

I have been where you are at. When making embouchure changes, you are going to have struggles, especially since you have expectations and want immediate results to play every note you used to play.

I suggest you stop whatever warmup you are doing. Do not play pedals. Everything does not have to be played FF. By the way, FF is such a subjective description. If you play, FF C below the staff and second-line G FF and the sound is distorted, you may be overblowing. Back-off.

You have just started windworks and do you think you should be able to play all of the notes you used to play using this new embouchure? This is a several weeks commitment.

Consider what Greg says:

“The ego’s desire to play with perfect tone will take the focus away from the correct Process encouraging manipulation thus deeming the exercise useless. You must be able to let go of the desire to sound amazing in order to effectively analyze and refine your playing system.”

If you have gigs or ensemble commitments, you are going to have use different embouchures.

Upload a short video of you playing some of WindWork exercises.

Don’t give up.