Trumpet TechniqueIn the last forty years, many elite performers in the arts have gleaned valuable lessons and techniques from research and advances in sport science, psychomotor research, learning theory, and psychology. Numerous "peak performance" books have made these tools and insights available to athletes. Now, professor and performer Frank Gabriel Campos has translated this concept for trumpet players and other brass and wind instrumentalists, creating an accessible and comprehensive guide to performance skill. Trumpet Technique combines the newest research on skill acquisition and peak performance with the time-honored and proven techniques of master teachers and performers. All aspects of brass technique are discussed in detail, including the breath, embouchure, oral cavity, tongue, jaw, and proper body use, as well as information on performance psychology, practice techniques, musicians' occupational injuries, and much more. Comprehensive and detailed, Trumpet Technique is an invaluable resource for performers, teachers, and students at all levels seeking to move to the highest level of skill with their instrument. |
Contents
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1 The Nature of Skill | 5 |
2 The Breath | 30 |
3 The Embouchure | 51 |
4 The Oral Cavity Tongue and Jaw | 82 |
5 Body Use | 107 |
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abdominal activity airstream Alexander Technique anxiety aperture Arnold Jacobs arousal articulation athletes attack attention automatic behavior Bell's palsy beta-blockers blow body bouchure brass instrument brass players breath cause chapter cognitive consciously diaphragm difficult Don Jacoby double buzz effective efficient embouchure excessive force excessive tension exercise feedback feel focus formance function glottis goal habits Haynie his/her important improve inhalation instrument International Trumpet Guild isometric long tones lungs Maurice André Maynard Ferguson ment mental mouth mouthpiece buzzing mouthpiece pressure move movement multiple tongue muscles musicians neck nerve normal notes observational learning oral cavity Pedal tones performance ability performing artists physical playing poor position possible posture practice session problems produce reinforcement relaxed s/he skilled performer sound stress student style task teacher teaching technique teeth throat tion tone production trumpet upper lip upper register usually Valsalva maneuver vibrato visualization
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Page 2 - Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness, concerning all acts of initiative (and creation) there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: That the moment one definitely commits oneself, then providence moves too. All sorts of things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred.