University Level
You decided to go into music and you want to be a professional horn player. You are now eagerly seeking out the best information to give you the edge and get you ahead. You will soon figure out on the audition circuit that you may never know why you didn’t advance or get chosen for the job. There are many reasons that have to do with how you played the excerpts and those can be fixed fairly quickly. One thing that underlies basic sound production and how solid the lower range is or how the upper range floats out on Shostakovich 5, is the embouchure.
If you are pressing in too much to the top lip, you are going to have a big break in the tone around the F and G below middle C. Learning to play with the bottom lip firm and the mouthpiece angled down so the top lip can buzz freely is essential to having an open low range. Otherwise, you will have a hard and forced sound.
There are some instant embouchure fixes to some common problems if your embouchure is already 2/3rd upper 1/3 lower, your chin is flexed and your mouthpiece is set below the bottom lip pink muscle line.
I go into detail working the techniques in my “Horn Book” that a university player must master before setting out on the audition trail. Some of the material is described in videos 9, 10 and 11.