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Skow
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Posted: 2006-08-20 04:16 CEST | |
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Here's what I find odd and may stir some conversation in the Trumpet Area. You know when you are playing screamer parts or playing a while and then you start to get real fatigued in your lips? It seems like there is a new thing (at least for me) that everyone is doing to get their chops back is that obnoxious flapping/fluttering/horse sound with your lips. Is this just psychological for your lips, does it actually return blood flow? If it is so great then why don't the Gods of trumpet playing do it such as Doc Severinson, Dizzy Gillespie, Cat Anderson and Maynard Ferguson never do it? Maybe they do and I am horribly off. What is your opinion on this guys? |
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skaman31689
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Posted: 2006-08-21 05:27 CEST | |
| I don't know. I would expect that the pros have just built up such an endurance and they can go on for hours on end without losing strength in their lips. But I've noticed it help me in the past. I think the general idea of resting a decent amout after everything you play restores blood flow. My teacher tells me to rest for the same amount of time I've played. | ||
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Skow
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Posted: 2006-08-21 07:12 CEST | |
| The rest as long as you play is important but what I have been taught is rest while you play, which helps even more I think. | ||
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marty
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Posted: 2006-08-23 03:43 CEST | |
| A lot of monster lead players (Rick Baptist anyone?) highly recommend flapping your lips to get the blood flowing in there again. | ||
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SeverFire
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Posted: 2006-08-23 07:19 CEST | |
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My music teacher told us that flapping the lips returns blood flow, and does help. I know it helps me at least a little. But yes, rest as much as you play. |
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Asian Man
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Posted: 2006-08-27 05:23 CEST | |
| Yes it does help get the blood flowig back into the lips and shakes out the lactic acids. Atheletes do this but maybe by shaking out their bodies instead of their lips. | ||
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skanetic
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Posted: 2006-09-01 02:04 CEST | |
All i know is that doing it makes my facial muscles feel a hundred times better... I never used to have to do it but started b/c our band director expects 1st trumpets to be able to play for hours on end and i am on 1st trumpet... awesome but sux getting yelled at for having dead lips. 
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Asian Man
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Posted: 2006-09-02 05:36 CEST | |
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careful buddy. I bet your band director/s is not a brass player. How many 1st trumpets are in your section because if you're playing march(Sousa marches or marching band) music you can ask to alternate. Say like there's 3 of you then two of you play while the other is resting. This year in marching band I'm stuck with 6 weak trumpets who have no endurance or a good sense of pitch so it's all me at the shows...I'm trying not to bust up my chops bad but at our first game, no matter what, the show must go on. |
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mgtrumpet
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Posted: 2008-04-07 05:55 CEST | |
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My schools marching band is really small this year. Our old band director left so most of the band quit and now we only have about thirty people in the band, and only two trumpets. This sereously sucks at the football games because im the only first trumpet and im dead by half time. God our band sucks this year. OH and on the actual topic, I do the whole lip flutter thing too. I dont know why, but when I cant feel my lips, I just kinda do it instinctively.
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