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Bending-Flexibility Combination Exercise

Although I have included separate exercises in the book for each of these techniques, I
believe combining the two is catalytic.

Many times, we upset the needed balance and stability that affords us the “effortless”
tone production. That elusive aural sensation is usually accompanied by minimal
change in our lip tension BETWEEN notes!

That said, then why does every book profess to tighten you lips when you ascend and
loosen your lips when you descend? I always was puzzled by this. Although there is a
partial truth to this, most of us do not have a great deal of success with this seemly
simple concept.

Even as we play a long tone on one pitch, our support increases inversely based on how
much air we have left in our body. I believe it is essential to keep the air energy or
density (pick your term) consistent as moves toward the oral cavity. At that point, our
jaw and tongue position react to that norm and we can, with the proper repetition, get a
repetitive result. In other words, our lips and tongue position need to get the same entry
air information to use our much practice ear-trained mechanical answer to get the same
pitch.

If the air insistence is changing in tandem with range, we lose all sense of what to do
next-in other words we guess! Our ear is telling us one thing and our mechanical self
comes up with a “guess”. That never made me feel good!

These hybrid exercises insist that you continue to support more throughout each
continuing breath. Once again quoting Al Vizzutti:

“Everything you do is one complete blow of the trumpet”.

To that I add:

“with support being inversely proportional to the volume of air left to maintain that air
energy”.

SO, the combined statement I profess is:

Al “Everything you do is one complete blow of the trumpet” Vince “with support being
inversely proportional to the volume of air left to maintain that air energy”.

In applying bends at a variety of locations, if that is not happening, you cannot hold the
notes by just lowering the jaw as you will lose the not. Only continuing the inverse
proportion will allow you to make the proper decision consistently and get the
effortless practiced result.
Finally, the art of inhale and exhale is regulating our pre-trumpet success. These
exercises should help understand and execute this. In doing so, our confidence will be
much greater.
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