Hi Valerie, I agree with everything you've said and concur with Milton's view of lip trills being fast slurs. Whilst at college, it took me six months before I became proficient, so maybe it's a patience thing.
I don't even think, when we are 'lip' slurring for ordinary valve slurs, that the movement has to be co-ordinated with the valves, not consciously anyway. So long as there is lip movement it will work. Regards, Ralph On 29 Mar 2011, at 21:50, 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/ralph%40brasshausmusic.com Ralph R. Hall [email protected] Ralph R. Hall http://www.brasshausmusic.com _______________________________________________ post: [email protected] unsubscribe or set options at https://pegasus.memphis.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/options/horn/archive%40jab.org
