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RESPIRAÇÃOlinic With Bobby Shew
RESPIRAÇÃOlinic With Bobby Shew
Background:
Bobby started the clinic by telling a bit about his background as a trumpet
player:
Students:
Students I see today are afraid to think. A lot of teaching I see (at clinics, etc.)
states that "This is the way" – I am amazed – there is no such thing as "one
way" to play the trumpet.
• Proper listening
• Think! – Do it!
• Copycats – NO!
• Confidence – find your own voice.
To find out things I decided to buy books, Maggio, Gordon, Callet, etc. There
are a lot of dangerous attitude among methods out there: "Do what I say". This
is the egomania or "guru-syndromes".
You know earlier I though Maynard Ferguson was "inhumane", but because of
Buddy Rich I had to learn how to do this. One day I had the courage to ask
Maynard behind the stage: "How do you do this". He showed me a book called
"The science of breath". This was a yoga book not a trumpet book.
Later I asked Bud Brisbois to show me his system. It was very opposite of the
normal stuff, like lift your shoulders, etc. I went home and tried it. I played from
the back of the Clarke book, the glissando exercise, a gliss from E to high E.
Suddenly I went above that high E and ended on a big fat high A. This was my
first high A. With this new system I also got up to double C.
Some points:
Warm up:
Bobby Shew has an effective and quick warm-up method.
He said that he would try to find the good feeling – "The Bobby Shew feeling"
that he felt when he was playing good. This was what he was looking for and he
would do 1 and 2 until the sound was good. Then he was ready.
He had discovered the flutter by watching people doing this when they where
playing.
Breathing:
Bobby demonstrated his "6- step" breathing technique:
The important thing with step 1 is that it makes the diaphragm drop down.
Very often students had a pinched sound that they had accepted as ok. Bobby
now took up his trumpet and demonstrated how it sounded (playing with a
pinched sound).
Now the first thing was to make the student aware of this by opening the sound.
Bobby demonstrates, calling the pinched sound "NO-sound" and the open
sound "YES sound".
The next is to have the student play a simple ascending scale. Even if this first
notes are open he often goes into a more pinched sound as he ascend.
A lot of people can hit a high note but it is pinched. Bobby demonstrates a
pinched double high C – then an open one.
Do not become obsessed by high notes. The most important thing is good
sound !
Tape yourself and listen closely.
Why?
Because after 15 minutes you still feel good and the body remember that "peek
feeling"