{"id":4153,"date":"2013-07-08T11:01:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T15:01:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=4153"},"modified":"2013-07-08T11:01:34","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T15:01:34","slug":"guess-the-embouchure-type-phil-wilson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=4153","title":{"rendered":"Guess the Embouchure Type &#8211; Phil Wilson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Max sent me a link to this YouTube <a href=\"http:\/\/youtu.be\/wLlkYR7v4l8\">video<\/a> of the great <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phil_Wilson_(trombonist)\">Phil Wilson<\/a> soloing on\u00a0<em>Lonesome Old Town<\/em> with the Woody Herman Orchestra. Not only is it a great sample of Wilson&#8217;s phenomenal playing, you also get a couple of good looks at Wilson&#8217;s chops. Enough to play &#8220;guess the embouchure type.&#8221; Take a good look \u00a0and see if you can tell which <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=7337\">embouchure type<\/a> Phil Wilson has. The best view of his embouchure starts at about 2:26, but you really need to at least start at the beginning of the solo at around 1:57 so you can hear Wilson show off his high chops a bit. My guess after the break.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wLlkYR7v4l8\" height=\"360\" width=\"480\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">There are two main characteristics that define a player&#8217;s embouchure type, the mouthpiece placement (which determines the <a href=\"http:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=12\">air stream direction<\/a>) and the direction of the player&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=41\">embouchure motion<\/a>. The first is pretty easy to guess with Wilson&#8217;s embouchure. His placement is fairly close to half and half, but there&#8217;s enough top lip inside that it&#8217;s almost certainly one of the downstream embouchure types. The upstream embouchure almost always has a mouthpiece placement that looks significantly lower than Wilson&#8217;s placement. Based on his placement alone it&#8217;s probably a good guess that he&#8217;s an example of the &#8220;medium high placement&#8221; embouchure type. &#8220;Very high placement&#8221; embouchure types almost always have a mouthpiece placement that is much closer to the nose.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Wilson&#8217;s embouchure motion is a little more tricky to spot. I *think* that I can see him pulling his mouthpiece and lips together down to ascend and pushing up to ascend, but it&#8217;s a very small amount of movement. The fact that it is such a small amount of motion is actually another clue that points to &#8220;medium high placement&#8221; embouchure type because out of the three basic types, the &#8220;medium high placement&#8221; type tends to have less embouchure motion than the other two, particularly with players at a very high level like Wilson (note, this is not necessarily correct for all &#8220;medium high placement&#8221; players at different stages in their development and player&#8217;s of other embouchure types sometimes also have very minimal amounts of embouchure motion).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">So my best guess would be the &#8220;medium high placement&#8221; type. Did you have a different guess? If so, what made you think so? Have you found another video of Wilson with a good look at his chops or any other brass player that you would like to play guess the embouchure type with? <a href=\"http:\/\/wilktone.com\/?page_id=186\">Drop me a line<\/a> and let me know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Max sent me a link to this YouTube video of the great Phil Wilson soloing on\u00a0Lonesome Old Town with the Woody Herman Orchestra. Not only is it a great sample of Wilson&#8217;s phenomenal playing, you also get a couple of good looks at Wilson&#8217;s chops. Enough to play &#8220;guess the embouchure type.&#8221; Take a good &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=4153\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Guess the Embouchure Type &#8211; Phil Wilson<\/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":true,"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":[1362,1369,1378,1380,1389],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brass","category-embouchure","category-jazz","category-medium-high-placement-type","category-trombone"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-14Z","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153","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=4153"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4153\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}