[TPIN] Pocius low pedals

[Glenn Bengry]

Mates,
 
     Low pedals do not necessarily have to be done with the horn tilted up that high. The horn will most often be tilted up but how high is not absolute.  I also contend that they do not have to be done with the horn, or for them to entirely speak clearly on the horn for them to be effective as part of a warm up.  They can also be done on the mouthpiece.  They can be used at any time during a playing session or practice session to good effect as well.
 
    As I understand it, one of Jim Thompson's premises is that one should be able to produce ANY frequency(and all frequencies) on the mouthpiece in order to be able to produce any frequency on the instrument.  This idea extends into the pedal range.  Therefore, after you feel that incredible face tingling that you get from Jeanne's extreme pedals, start to go upwards gradually(with the horn or with the mouthpiece)  The goal is to be able to eventually play every frequency from the elephant range all the way up to pedal F  and then to play the low F# on the horn as if it was just another pedal(relaxed and with the chops barely on the mouthpiece).
 
    This approach is one way to incorporate the form used for the pedals, air based, embouchure based, as opposed to mouthpiece and pressure based, to the form used in the "regular" range of the trumpet.  Usually you will find that your sound is more pure and easy and that you will be usuing much less mouthpiece pressure.
 
     This is one reason that Mendez said "You wanna play a lotta high notes, play the low notes first."
 
 
glenn, there are lots of ways to fart, bengry
 
 
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> From: benny at benrydell.com> To: jc1 at startechjournal.com; jalfano at nycap.rr.com> Subject: RE: [TPIN] Jeanne Pocius> Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2007 19:40:17 -0400> CC: TPIN at tpin.okcu.edu> > You're quite right, James. All of her links go to dead ends, probably> attributed to her site being under construction (I know mine is).> > Aside from all of this, I just want to learn a little bit more about> achieving her elephant farts, or pedal tones. > > >From her class at ITG 2007, Jeanne Pocius stressed the importance of> learning how to practice these tones. In plain and physical terms one would> start this exercise by tilting the horn from the chops upward at a steep> (perhaps 45 degree) angle, more or less. From there, I believe the player> has to heartily smile or frown -frown I think. > > She did all of this very warmly and beautifully -but I could not get much> response from my horn when I tried this at the class. > > Lately I've been trying it and getting a little bit of sound, interspersed> through the horn, and I feel that my chops are being relaxed at the time.> I'm just not perfectly satisfied at the time being with how I'm doing it. > > I figure that I should probably drive to Boston for a lesson or two, and/or> buy her book. Both would probably answer this burning desire of mine to> conquer this crucial part from her warm-up method.> > Also, her pedal tone approach is completely new to my understanding of low> register maintenance, especially with the angling of the horn. > > Before I forget... I'm not sure if anyone else attended BOTH her early> morning warm-up as well as Brad Goode's Jazz Nite at the Blue Wall Café at> the ITG conference. If so, then you would have witnessed a jazz rendition> of the "elephant fart" pedal note/tone approach on the horn. Interestingly> enough, Mr. Goode threw in a sort of "fart" quote towards the end of Nature> Boy (not completely sure if this was the exact tune from his first/main> set). I think I remember him ending the piece with a kind of fade out> though, one that encapsulated the pedal tone technique, and yes his horn was> tilted upward in the same manner as the one taught by Jeanne Pocius. > > This pedal note approach may appeal to trumpeters of any genre.> > > > -----Original Message-----> From: tpin-bounces at tpin.okcu.edu [mailto:tpin-bounces at tpin.okcu.edu] On> Behalf Of James Calore> Sent: Sunday, June 10, 2007 6:59 PM> To: John Alfano> Cc: TPIN at tpin.okcu.edu> Subject: Re: [TPIN] Jeanne Pocius> > On Jun 10, 2007, at 6:46 PM, John Alfano wrote:> > > Her website is: http://jeannegpocius.com/> > It may be just me, some weird cosmic interfernce only on my internet, > but none of the links work on her site... ?> > James> > > _______________________________________________> TPIN mailing list> TPIN at tpin.okcu.edu> http://tpin.okcu.edu/mailman/listinfo/tpin> > > _______________________________________________> TPIN mailing list> TPIN at tpin.okcu.edu> http://tpin.okcu.edu/mailman/listinfo/tpin