[TPIN] Re: Jaw Position, philosophy of playing and teaching

[Joe Slaughter]

Pops,

Always good to read your teaching & be reminded of the things you've 
said in lessons.

Someone found me an old CD of Jake -- "Have Conns Will Travel" -- & I 
listened to it again this afternoon. What a great sound & great example 
of good trumpeting.

I continue to be amazed at the exercises you came up with in the "30 
Minutes..." book. It really pushes me like you said it would.

Thanks,
Joe Slaughter
Dallas Comeback Player
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Pops at BbTrumpet.com wrote:

>  If you look at http://www.bbtrumpet.com/works1.html   you will see a very basic description of  aperture tunnel.
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>      Embouchures are easy to explain this way.
>      Even those embouchures that some people swear can’t work are  easy to explain this way. (Like overlapping lips….or how the tongue can become  part of the embouchure)
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>      When we stop looking at just side to side and look in all 3 dimensions  it becomes very simple.
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>      This even explains why the vibration moves to a different  portion of the lip surface as we play higher and lower.
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>      I have had students suddenly learn how to gain some control  after just looking at the idea. 
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>      Teachers who do and use physical ideas usually also use the  other teaching models as well. You see a lot of explanations from some of us on  a written medium because this medium lends itself towards that. I can’t do a  real sound model here but I can type words.
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>      Mike I know exactly where you are coming from. I studied  with Jake.
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>      Ask some of his old students that have come to see me if I  am much different from him. Keith Wood (who helped Jake with the book) keeps  telling me that all I need is a bathrobe. 
>      If all someone saw of me was what was possible to do on an  entirely written medium then they would get about 20% of the total picture. But  that is ALL that I CAN show here on a written medium.
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>      We are also in a time where you are almost not allowed to  give a mental concept or image. Those are not 100% scientifically accurate, and  even if they are correct; the person posting them could easily be called names.  I have seen it on other forums. In fact Mike the one you just used that we got  from Jake was ripped to shreds on another forum when someone posted it. Yes I  know it works great. It has helped thousands of players and that is what I  teach but it isn’t NET speak. 
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>  They want and demand more in-depth descriptions.  If you don’t tie it down and give every possible view then some reader  somewhere will do 100 what ifs and hijack a good thread just to show that  things can be seen if more than one light.
>      The internet is NOT real life and things would be accepted  well in REAL life in a clinic are often met with serious scorn online.
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>      We all (me as well) forget these limitations sometimes and  judge others from this extremely narrow view that we get of them.
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>30 Minutes a day to better playing, the book of embouchure pictures and 8 other books at:
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>http://www.BbTrumpet.com
>http://www.TrumpetCollege.com
>Best wishes
>Clint 'Pops' McLaughlin
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>It is the smart application of hard work that gets you there.
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