Embouchure Change
- tbarrett
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- Joined: Oct 23, 2022
I'm a sophomore in college as a Music Education major, and I am going through an embouchure change. Because of marching band habits, in high school I use to stick my jaw forward creating an underbite causing me to play as an "up streamer". However, these past few weeks I have began relearning with the correct embouchure as a "down streamer" and have had immense improvement in tone quality, but my high range has dramatically decreased. If I want to play high, does my top lip go over my bottom lip? How does it work? Any advice or knowledge is appreciated, thank you.
- Doug_Elliott
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- Joined: Mar 22, 2018
I would have to see it.
Upstream is not "wrong" but it may or may not be wrong for you. There are MANY professional players who are upstream, very correctly.
I do lessons by Skype and my specialty is diagnosing and fixing issues such as yours.
Upstream is not "wrong" but it may or may not be wrong for you. There are MANY professional players who are upstream, very correctly.
I do lessons by Skype and my specialty is diagnosing and fixing issues such as yours.
- GabrielRice
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- Joined: Mar 23, 2018
Doug very much knows what he is talking about.
- Vegasbound
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Have a lesson with Doug ASAP
- Posaunus
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[quote="Vegasbound"]Have a lesson with Doug ASAP[/quote]
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- Wilktone
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- Joined: Mar 27, 2018
tbarrett, have you been in touch with Doug about your embouchure change? Doug helped me back while I was a grad student with my upstream embouchure and it was a transformative experience for me.
I have some resources on my blog about this topic, but it's very difficult to self-diagnose what you're doing and where you should be going. If you want to post some video of your chops I can scope it out and often can spot something helpful that way. I also have been teaching online video lessons, but still catch lessons with Doug myself, so he is the more experienced teacher here.
Dave
I have some resources on my blog about this topic, but it's very difficult to self-diagnose what you're doing and where you should be going. If you want to post some video of your chops I can scope it out and often can spot something helpful that way. I also have been teaching online video lessons, but still catch lessons with Doug myself, so he is the more experienced teacher here.
Dave