{"id":1548,"date":"2010-11-27T10:12:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T15:12:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2010-11-27T10:12:01","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T15:12:01","slug":"guess-the-embouchure-type-bob-mcchesney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"Guess the Embouchure Type: Bob McChesney"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First, sorry for the lack of regular updates lately. &nbsp;As things so often go, I got slammed with grading and class prepping and then wanted to unplug for a bit. &nbsp;I hope all the U.S. readers had a pleasant Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today I&#8217;m going to try to guess Bob McChesney&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=7337\">embouchure type<\/a>. \u00a0McChesney is a fantastic trombonist (as you&#8217;ll hear in these videos) and also the author of a very popular <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bobmcchesney.com\/doodle.html\">book<\/a> on the jazz trombone technique of doodle tonguing. \u00a0Here is McChesney playing one of the parts for his arrangement on <em>I Love You<\/em>. \u00a0As you watch, see if you can guess which of the three basic embouchure types he is.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w2HN0AbnTjw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">This video is hard to get a clear enough look so I&#8217;m not completely certain.\u00a0\u00a0His mouthpiece placement seems to be mostly top lip, almost definitely <a href=\"http:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=12\">downstream<\/a>. \u00a0Looking for his <a href=\"http:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=41\">embouchure motion<\/a> is also a little hard to see because he moves his head around just enough while he plays that it&#8217;s sometimes hard to follow it while he plays. \u00a0Still, there are a few times when he plays large enough intervals that I *think* I see him pushing up to ascend and pulling down to descend. \u00a0So my best guess is <a href=\"http:\/\/wilktone.com\/?cat=33\">Very High Placement<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">In case you&#8217;re curious as to why McChesney mentions that he&#8217;s playing a &#8220;live version&#8221; it probably has to do with some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/comment_servlet?all_comments=1&amp;v=ICVJO-t08ME\">comments<\/a> about his recorded version below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ICVJO-t08ME?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">What an outrageous chart! &nbsp;McChesney also plays so perfectly on this recording that some people were certain it was fake. &nbsp;One commenter correctly, I think, pointed out that at lot of what makes this sound fake is that it&#8217;s the same player on all the parts and it doesn&#8217;t sound natural because of it. &nbsp;I&#8217;ve heard this done by other performers (and goofed around with it myself) and it always sounds a bit like a synthesizer with the exact same sound on all four parts. &nbsp;If you&#8217;re familiar with McChesney&#8217;s playing you know he is capable of playing that chart that well.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">It&#8217;s fun to also look through his score. &nbsp;Check out some of the voicings he uses. &nbsp;I like the way he goes in and out of unisons. &nbsp;Coincidentally I&#8217;ve been playing around with this a bit in a big band composition I&#8217;m composing, so it&#8217;s given me some other ideas to try out and explore more in my chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, sorry for the lack of regular updates lately. &nbsp;As things so often go, I got slammed with grading and class prepping and then wanted to unplug for a bit. &nbsp;I hope all the U.S. readers had a pleasant Thanksgiving. Today I&#8217;m going to try to guess Bob McChesney&#8217;s embouchure type. \u00a0McChesney is a fantastic &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=1548\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guess the Embouchure Type: Bob McChesney<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_wpcom_ai_launchpad_first_post":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1364,1369,1378,1389,1392],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition","category-embouchure","category-jazz","category-trombone","category-very-high-placement-type"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-oY","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}