I have days where I can skyrocket my range and days where it is a fight against the trumpet, really painful one. I find this approach to work well for the low register, but the high register is very inconsistent. However for the lower range, and especially for pedal tones my lower lip rolls out. As I increase the range my lips tend to roll in. For me the most important fight will be the lip clamp… I have always used a roll in roll out embouchure. My notes on the singing c were really piano and soft, sometimes almost non existent. As for the airpockets I am not worried, they are slightly above and below the lips and I think they showed up because I took the zero body engagement very seriously, to the point where the embouchure did not engage at all and the lips just oscillated with the air flow. I guess I will only implement the learnings on the warm up of my daily routine for now and gradually add more. Now I’m up to an octave above that and I’m playing a 1.5C mouthpiece. Couldnt play above G above the staff till March 2018. Good luck, I’ve come a long way the past year. WindWorks isnt about using zero embouchure engagement, just minimal engagement and from the aperture corners rather than clamping down in the middle top-to-bottom like a clam, cutting off the vibration of the lips–especially the top (if youre a downstream player).
You should experiment and focus on playing relaxed, but watch your sound. Eventually, your mind will develop new pathways and the two separate methods will gradually converge into one. The two are separate buildings that you occupy at separate times. The basic premise is to treat your playing as if you’re living in your current house while building a new house. You should check out the Trumpet Chats Greg has posted on YouTube and other threads (…”only dummy” and “overcoming a negative psychology”). Welcome! I’m a comeback player too, but with a longer break and I’m older… If I try to remove the air pockets, I use embouchure effort which I think violates the whole process. All I do is take a deep breath and release the air and wait till the lips vibrate on their own. I am guessing I should rather try to apply some 5% of the learnings as opposed to 100% 😛Īnother question I have to the community is, do you guys create any pockets of air while playing with the windworks approach? This happens to me since I am literally using zero synthetic engagement of the body.
My question is, how should we transfer the knowledge of Windworks to our practice? I confess I tried to apply the learnings 100% and had a horrible training session as I struggled to play every note.
After that I have played my usual trumpet routine trying to apply the lessons learned. Today I have enrolled in this platform and went through the lessons till the end of singing C# step 4.
After watching some videos of Windworks I somehow got attracted to the philosophy. The only issue is that I see a lot of garbage advice being given out there. I have seen a lot of stuff online, especially on YouTube and was so amazed how much material exists nowadays. Therefore I felt the need to find some resources online to guide my training. To my surprise I have also been having horrible days where everything I play sounds awful, range sucks, and overall it feels painful to just play. I have been having a very inconsistent playing, in the sense that some days my chops feel great and can play with ease and expand my range quite significantly. Pedal tones, Clarke, Collins, ascending arpeggios for range, etc. I have been using stuff I learned back in the days, I. 3 months ago started playing again on my own. Played the trumpet for 6 years (14 to 20 years old), and haven’t touched the horn for 8 years.
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