[Trombone-l] Embouchure Dictations Of The Bass Trombone Valve Register (not an immaculate conception)

Thu Apr 2 09:15:00 CDT 2009

It's a little different with me...

I have separate embouchures and mouthpieces and rims for every instrument... much as any non-double would.  I haven't met anyone who really works that way, but I do; I think (don't laugh) it comes from my flute background.  Aperture, Aperture, Aperture!

The constants for me are that in free-buzzing, pitch is pitch.  If I can't buzz it, I can't play it.  Fix the buzz, fix the note/phrase.  It's that simple, and that complex!

When I get to higher brass, which I've sorta given up over the years, I use a different support structure for the buzz, and the architecture - especially with my jaw - is much different with trumpet and horn.  But the fundamental is always there - the buzz is the note.

Ironically, I don't really practice buzzing regularly... I take instrument on its own terms, and buzz when I have an issue to resolve.

YMMV...

J.c.

---- Tom Izzo <contrabasstrombone at yahoo.com> wrote: 
> Galen,
> 
> --- On Wed, 4/1/09, Galen Zinn <grzinn at astound.net> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Galen Zinn <grzinn at astound.net>
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> 
> This all leads me to another related question for those of you who claim to
> double on alto, tenor, bass trombone, euphonium, and tuba. How do you
> accomplish all this without ³burbling² attacks on notes? Apparently you have
> found a single embouchure setting that works for all of the circumstances on
> all of these instruments?
> 
>  
> "Claim" to double???????? LOL
> I can't speak for anyone else, but in my case. 1) find a mouthpiece that works for you.
> I copied that rim (Doug Elliott mp's) for use on Alto & Tenor & Euph & Bass Trumpet. 
> 2) Tuba & Contrabass Trb, I use another favorite rim.
>  
> PLUS, I've been playing multiple sized instruments for over 40 years. It does take practice to accomplish this, it doesn't happen over night.
>  
> That's me, your mileage may vary.
>  
> Tom
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