{"id":237,"date":"2010-05-17T02:32:08","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T06:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=237"},"modified":"2023-03-26T10:59:47","modified_gmt":"2023-03-26T14:59:47","slug":"the-upstream-brass-embouchure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=237","title":{"rendered":"The Upstream Brass Embouchure"},"content":{"rendered":"\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\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xFHgOTG2i7I?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<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\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qt_0g0f6dgE?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\">I&#8217;ve got some projects currently underway that are keeping me from adding some new content, so today&#8217;s entry will be a repost, of sorts.&nbsp; The above two-part video was the &#8220;pilot&#8221; for my embouchure research.&nbsp; I had just bought the video camera and was testing it out to see how well it would perform for the purpose of my research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As it happens, I was involved in a discussion on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.trumpetherald.com\/forum\/viewforum.php?f=23&amp;sid=9dbf86ef5f87441fcf2040991fcfa182\">Trumpet Herald Reinhardt Forum<\/a> at the time and decided to kill two birds with one stone by presenting some evidence to someone who didn&#8217;t feel an upstream brass embouchure was correct for some individuals.&nbsp; I think most brass teachers who discourage the Low Placement embouchure type do so because they&#8217;ve never observed an upstream brass player close enough to see how it looks and works.&nbsp; It was my hope that by showing that this upstream embouchure type can work successfully on all the brass instruments more brass teachers and players would not be so quick to discourage it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not that my brass doubling on this video was really &#8220;successful.&#8221;\u00a0 I have no illusions about my abilities to play any brass instrument other than trombone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got some projects currently underway that are keeping me from adding some new content, so today&#8217;s entry will be a repost, of sorts.&nbsp; The above two-part video was the &#8220;pilot&#8221; for my embouchure research.&nbsp; I had just bought the video camera and was testing it out to see how well it would perform for &hellip; 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