Saturday, September 16, 2006
Changed blog song again. =.= Changed to The Carnival of Venice, performed by Russian tpt'er Sergei Nakariakov. His sound and all very nice just that his posture is suxxors. Lol. Carnival is a very nice song so enjoy!!
Alrighty, went back to band room yesterday to check out xh's problem as well as play instru. Very long nvr play liao, very tiring. Summore ytd keep screaming high notes =X Anway, the pros say practising high notes can improve range =D, nvr forgetting the pedal notes also. Pedal notes are fun!! Checked van's and xh's sound yesterday, sorry no time check the rest of the section. After O's then see how bah. Both of em got almost the same problem, the 'stuck' sound. Told van to drop jaw, open embouchure and use more of air and buzzing. Told xh basically the same stuff and asked him to visualise and hear the difference between 'open' and 'stuck' sound. Hopefully both of them gets it. Band break for exams alr so dunno if they'll work on it at home. Got a piece of advice for the whole section though(apply to all brass players). Work on a comfortable basic embouchure where your sound is good. Then further develop from that embouchure. Basic idea is to have a fixed embouchure so that problems are easier to be corrected. Went to bach brass.com just now to check the difference between bach strad model 37 and 43. I played both models before, difference is that 43 requires more air than 37. The reason why this is so is because of the bore size. The bore is actually the cylinder tubing where it is smaller at the mp and larger towards the bell. Basically is the tube where the air passage is lor. 43 has a slightly larger bore than 37. But since tpts are long. The difference is multiplied so amount of air requried...... Yeah, do your calculations. Not advised to let juniors play 43 so suggesting to my to let xh change instrus, at the same time check the rest's instrus too. Better go remind her. Yup.
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