[Trombone-l] Embouchure

[Richardson, Timothy Mr. DAC USAG Franconia DPW]

I tend to think one size does not fit all.

One approach to embouchure probably does not work because of the differences
in student physiognomy and current embouchure faults.

But more significant in my mind (and I know others violently disagree) is
that students have different preferred learning styles and very little
ability to change this.  This is most obvious when the "Inner Tennis"
teacher meets the analytical style student.  Or vice versa.  I think it is
very easy to get confused between problems resulting from teaching style and
problems resulting from the wrong embouchure advice.  Probably the air vs
chops division splits along the learning style lines.  It is easy for a
teacher to teach how and what worked for himself, and have success with the
group of students this works for.  The other students drop or fail and move
on.  

I do think that most successful embouchures share common features and
probably can be divided into a three or four main variations.  I couldn't
tell you what these are but there are some Reinhardt followers on the list
who might have a starting point.    But it might be just as worthwhile to
try to identify the learning style as quickly as possible as to classify the
embouchure.  

-----Original Message-----
From: Jackie Harris-Stone [mailto:bassboneladymail at yahoo.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, April 04, 2006 22:05
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Subject: [Trombone-l] Embouchure