[TPIN] Re: Buzz

[Eric Bolvin]

I just wanted to add something on free-buzzing. It can be helpful if you free buzz with the same embouchure that you play with. Most people that play downstream can do this so free buzzing can be helpful.
I am an upstream player and can't free buzz too much with my regular embouchure but can frree buzz with a downstream embouchure that is nothing like I play. 
I remember taking lessons when I was in college and the teacher asked me to buzz and I could buzz up pretty high and on pitch and he was amazed. Too bad it really did me no good as far as my playing goes because I couldn't play the horn the same way.

Eb

Eric Bolvin
The Really Big Student Songbook
The Arban Manual
www.BolvinMusic.com
408.236.2009 


     <For those that may not know: Arnold Jacobs was the principal tuba player for the Chicago  Symphony Orchestra from 1944 until his retirement in 1988.
       
      Mr. Jacobs was a fine player and low brass teacher. Many of  his ideas work for ALL wind instruments. 
       
      Hearing the pitch, sound model, phrasing, dynamics in your  head BEFORE you blow the first note is one of the most important things you can  do.
       
      That being said there is a tremendous difference between  TUBA and trumpet.
  
  
  
      Free Buzzing is completely unimportant to a tuba  player. The  lips need to do things that we as trumpet players NEVER do for them to  play the  bottom of their range. On the other hand we need to make compression  and do things to play the top of our range and tuba players dont. 

Eric Bolvin
The Really Big Student Songbook
The Arban Manual
www.BolvinMusic.com
408.236.2009