How do you do, fellow kids?
- Chicken
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- Joined: May 17, 2023
Hello, first post. Beginner to Trombone, many years of flute. Currently in a small town brass band without a teacher so winging it. It’s hella fun!
- Chicken
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- Joined: May 17, 2023
And here’s my follow up. Struggling with embouchure at low end, sound is very fbfbfbfbfbfbfb-y.
- BGuttman
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- Joined: Mar 22, 2018
[quote="Chicken"]And here’s my follow up. Struggling with embouchure at low end, sound is very fbfbfbfbfbfbfb-y.[/quote]
This is a question to be posted in Teaching and Learning. Also, what the **** is fbfbfbfbfbfbfb-y? That's not something I can understand (and potentially help to fix).
This is a question to be posted in Teaching and Learning. Also, what the **** is fbfbfbfbfbfbfb-y? That's not something I can understand (and potentially help to fix).
- jthomas105
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- Joined: Apr 08, 2018
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- TomWest
- Posts: 73
- Joined: Apr 04, 2023
I’m new to the trombone, playing about six months, and I remember very well the “Dying Moose” sound I made when I started. Now if I could just learn how to tongue properly! I’ll get it, just keep working on it…
- BGuttman
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- Joined: Mar 22, 2018
[quote="TomWest"]I’m new to the trombone, playing about six months, and I remember very well the “Dying Moose” sound I made when I started. Now if I could just learn how to tongue properly! I’ll get it, just keep working on it…[/quote]
A lesson with a good teacher can do wonders.
A lesson with a good teacher can do wonders.
- Kbiggs
- Posts: 1768
- Joined: Mar 24, 2018
1. What Bruce said: get a good teacher.
2. Flute and trombone embouchures have some similarities, but are different enough to confuse some people. (It's like what my wife told me about learning new languages: She speaks Danish, but when she tried learning German, she got confused due to the overlap in the languages.)
Remember to keep the embouchure muscles surrounding the mouth firm, especially the area right below the corners of the mouth. Don't let the lips go flabby in the lower register--that's what makes the "dying moose" sound.
3. What are you doing with the tongue when you play? Why do you think you're not tonguing "properly"?
In general, let the sound be your guide. If it doesn't sound good, then maybe there's something in the mechanics to adjust. That's where a good teacher helps. See no. 1.
2. Flute and trombone embouchures have some similarities, but are different enough to confuse some people. (It's like what my wife told me about learning new languages: She speaks Danish, but when she tried learning German, she got confused due to the overlap in the languages.)
Remember to keep the embouchure muscles surrounding the mouth firm, especially the area right below the corners of the mouth. Don't let the lips go flabby in the lower register--that's what makes the "dying moose" sound.
3. What are you doing with the tongue when you play? Why do you think you're not tonguing "properly"?
In general, let the sound be your guide. If it doesn't sound good, then maybe there's something in the mechanics to adjust. That's where a good teacher helps. See no. 1.