Vocal Overtones + Brass Embouchure #1, Part 1

The first part of a brief demonstration of the application of vocal overtone production to defining a brass embouchure...Sam Burtis (aka Sabutin), freelance NYC lower brass player.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• brass
• trombone
• trumpet
• french horn
• euphonium
• tuba
• embouchure
• vocal overtones
• Sam Burtis
• Sabutin

[funderbone]

Great resource, Sam..

[sabutin]

@funderbone This is actually old news. I have taken it much further. Gotta set up the camera and do another. Among a thousand other tasks.

Any day now...

Aaaaany day now...

[PeteMcGuinness]

Problem lessening!...firming up corners and like you say Sam, the buzz to mouthpiece to horn connection. Fedchock helped me with this too. You two are both excellent teachers of the subject. Feeling a LOT better these days! Thanks for the tips.

-Pete

[sabutin]

@PeteMcGuinness

Glad to help, Pete.

Sam

[sabutin]

aasavickas...

Yup. It is said time heals all wounds? It heals all sounds as well. Bet on it.

[bad99bear]

You heard the sound of overtone singing in your brain - you "sang in your brain" - very intensely as you sang the overtones just before placing your lips on the mouthpiece. Your lips were in perfect position because the brain transferred a very powerful stimulus to the embouchure muscles - the stimulus was pure sound in your imagination. You heard this sound so clearly that you forgot about the problems of playing a brass instrument. Arnold Jacobs - "strangeness permits change."

[sabutin]

That's one explanation among many. Let's take those three words: "Strangeness permits change." It seems so obvious. But...strangeness also permits failure. So does change sometimes. Change can produce strangeness as well. Permission often changes strangeness to familiarity. And sometimes not so much. Sometimes it's better not to try to pin things like this w/words. Either you do it or you don't. Have you done this? I hope so. Later... S.

[funderbone]

@sabutin ...read ya loud and clear.

[aasavickas]

@sabutin Having had a lessonwith you and read your book, I happened to notice something others might have missed. I clearly heard you tapping your foot before you played. Without externalizing TIME and really feeling it, any complicated act like playing trombone is very hard to do consistently or well. I know how important time is, however the folks watching this video might have missed that little bit. Just thought I'd point out an integral part of music that is unfortunately often overlooked.

[yunmi41]

No entiendo el ingles, alguien me lo podria traducir