My thoughts about the musician sound elaborate from the following concepts : Sound and Internal Vibration My exploring the alto saxophone, coming from practicing the clarinet, made me realize how paramount the sound foundation is, as resulting from the mastering of my internal vibration : by avoiding any physical stress disturbing the musical gesture (“body tensions shrink your sound“, as… Continue reading the musician sound
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the embouchure
The Soundwise Embouchure The instrument of the woodwind player really appears to behave as his megaphone, thanks to his embouchure. Get Your Mask Down ! Your mouth / mouthpiece / reed / ligature set defines your global embouchure : this configuration may vary between players, closely associating your morphology and the gear you use. Your… Continue reading the embouchure
don’t blow it
Free Your Sound By Not Blowing How your no-blowing makes the sound generated by your internal vibration deeper. You Play Your Body To ensure a clean and flawless emission, either fff or ppp – and without using the tongue edge for the first one ! -, you should precisely imagine the mouthpiece rim plugged to the sound source. Through your natural breathing, your exhaling extends your… Continue reading don’t blow it
the posture
The musician posture for his sound The musician’s posture aims at easing his body and his instrument to merge together. Your Body Gets In Line For Vibration Visualize your roots and imagine them plunging into the ground, from the trunk of this virtual tree, represented by your air column – actually, your sound column. Here you are,… Continue reading the posture
the sensations
Your Sound Sensations Mastering your expression leads you to enjoyment, all the more spontaneous as it results from a relaxation, rather than from a physical strike. Have Fun ! Letting your internal opening spread downwards fosters your feelings, enhancing your self-confidence and ensuring your sound quality. « Your thinking drives your will for sure, but since your will may cancel… Continue reading the sensations
a virtual trunk
The Sound Trunk Where you realize you are perched on top of a virtual trunk. Mastering Your Perching Up Merging yourself with your instrument makes you vertically work out your sound column, letting your relaxation rolling downwards ; then, the part of your body located above your diaphragm gets oblivious, while you can visualize the embouchure at the… Continue reading a virtual trunk
breathing and air
The Musician Sound Grows From His Breathing And Air Driving your internal vibration with your natural breathing is key for your sound quality, and requires only a minimal air consumption. Breathe, You Bet ! The inner motion propagating your vibration towards your instrument comes from your sound center, the location and feeling of which you get… Continue reading breathing and air
the sound source
The Sound Springs From Its Source Mastering your internal vibration progressively makes you precisely localize its source. Spreading Pleasure You should internally visualize the source of your sound at the bottom center point of your diaphragm, down to your heels and even beneath : this is the Japanese Hara or the Chinese Tan Tsienn, representing the location of universal… Continue reading the sound source
highs and lows
A Deep Sound In The Highs The broad breathing allows the sound column to vibrate homogeneously over the whole tessiture. Upper And Lower The low pitch vibration spreads in the ground and in space from your posture stabilized on your roots, as if you were sitting on the sound source. Keeping concentrated on this balanced position, you release… Continue reading highs and lows