Hi Valerie, "Every player can move from one note to another and back again; however slow this may be, it is still a lip trill. The task is to increase the speed."
Tuckwell, Barry: Playing the Horn, A practical guide p.17, Oxford Instrumental Tutors; Oxford University Press, [1978]; Music Department, 44 Conduit Street, London WIR ODE Cheers, Martin Bender On 2011-03-29, at 3:50 PM, valerie wells wrote: > I know a horn player who insist he can't do lip trills. However, he does > great sounding valve trills and otherwise has well functioning, flexible > chops. My current mode of thinking on this is: whether you move the valves > or not, the embouchure movement is about the same in both kinds of trills -- > that is, the lips move in sync with the trill to accommodate the pitch > changes. So I believe my friend CAN do lip trills, but he's just mentally > convinced he can't. Perhaps he's afraid to try. > > Any thoughts on this idea? Any teachers out there have experience helping a > student overcome a fear of trilling? Please share. > -- > Valerie Wells > The Balanced Embouchure Method > http://bebabe.wordpress.com/ > http://www.beforhorn.blogspot.com/ > _______________________________________________ > post: [email protected] > unsubscribe or set options at > https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/axe102%40rogers.com "All great things are decided not by machines or gadgets, but by willpower; whoever has it will finally prevail." Winston Churchill _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
