Brass Embouchures: A Guide For Teachers and Players

This 50 minute presentation covers the three basic brass embouchure types and offers some suggestions for teachers and players on how to improve brass pedagogy and practice.

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Music

Tags:

• downstream
• Brass Instrument
• upstream
• trumpet
• trombone
• horn
• tuba
• embouchure

[wilktone]

@SteveMcHope IRB=Institutional Review Board. This is the committee at universities that regulates research using human test subjects to ensure that they are safe and their rights are protected. Necessary for any research involved human test subjects and such.

[SteveMcHope]

@wilktone @wilktone

Ah - so what is the exact name for the non-toxic stuff - so I can try to get it too?

AND - what is IRB approval?

I looked in Wikipedia after IRB, got a number of things, but nothing seems to fit

[wilktone]

@SteveMcHope Non-toxic and safe. I had to jump through all the hoops to conduct this research for my dissertation and these videos when applying for IRB approval.

[SteveMcHope]

@wilktone

Ok - thanks. And this is not unhealthy? Nevermind, I think, I will test it...

Greetings, Steve

[wilktone]

@SteveMcHope I usually use face mask defoggant that SCUBA divers use. I hear a little shaving cream will work OK too.

[SteveMcHope]

....to keep away the "fog" and "moist" from the inside of the mouthpiece

in order to be able to make better videos.

Your videos do seem to be quite clear.

thanks again for this intersting lesson...

Steve

[SteveMcHope]

@wilktone

Thanks a lot for this info. I was able to got one. And I like them.

But there is still another question left.

I also want to make highspeed videos (1200 fps) from the lip vibrations.

But the inside of the mouthpiece gets "cloudy" from the moist very fast.

then you cannot see a lot.

My first way to overcome this, was to put the mouthpiece in warm water

(body temperature, a little bit more) - and this do work not so bad.

But I want to know, what your "trick" is...

[jtyphoid]

Thanks for posting this. My music instructors never really talked about embouchures. Instead, we were left to figure it out on our own. In some ways, though, the lack of instruction might have been better than forcing everyone to do it a certain way, whether it fit our anatomy or not.

[goudaboy0017]

Well that's fine. I only use a plastic mouthpiece because I got my lips stuck on my mouthpiece in the marching season. I have a question what instrument do you play?

[wilktone]

@goudaboy0017 Yeah, I prefer the metal mouthpiece myself, but I do know a couple of players who like the sound and feel of the plastic mouthpiece and play on them all the time. To each his own, I guess.