[IGNORE THE MYTHS] Day 6 - How To Increase Your Range By, Greg Spence

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Now with that in mind go back and do "The Singing C" lesson again. It gets real complex by the time we get to the end of the course.
Now again, I'm just going to keep saying it and saying it. I don't care if you disagree with me.
I don't care. It doesn't matter. Eventually if you are having issues, you're going to have to rethink and you'll go "Oh yeah right. Yeah. Mmmm"
I recognize all of that nonsense that's back in the system. And when we leave the ego at the door I go "I'll just try that"
All of a sudden you might think about it in a different way. This controls the air coming from the body and activating the air in the pipe.
One air column oscillating. The lips freely on top of that until you get up higher above the stave, High C, High D.
It's all at the course and there's another video on the channel here that discusses that. So work on... Walk around...
And your brain might be going it but how on earth is that improving my range?
Well.. relax body. PASSIVE movement of air... Aperture Corners engaging. Loose lips.
That's what you need to do when you're playing in the upper register.
And if all of a sudden at any stage when you start developing your range you notice that,
"Body's Concert Hall" turns into that which is the big thing. Push, pinch, so you you feel the backup.
You'll feel the tightness. If you shut your eyes, take an nice breath, relax...
Mmmmmmm. You can play like that. You don't have to believe me.
Because I want to sit here and spend all this time doing all these videos because it's nonsense. No! No! No! Try it. Okay?
If you really want to make changes to your playing and you want to develop a range that you've never had.
You want to get over the barriers that you've got. Break through the ceilings. Get rid of frustration. Play easily.
There are people around that do it and I've developed it so I'm a bit of an example.
Yep, I was playing professionally but I was killing myself. I remember being on TV gig's,
sitting in theatre pits and doing big Latin gigs or whatever going "I'm killing myself and I hate it"
Now, I play way easier than I've ever played. Right? And I'm gigging less. I've moved up here to spend time on the course.
I'm not interested in the gigs that I've done. I'm not interested in going out and proving what I can play like
or what I can't play like there's always better players out there. There's amazing players.
That's not what I was put on this earth to do. I can help you save a lot of years and
enjoy your playing a bit more and break through a barrier. And it's up to you whether you are ready for that yet.
You'll be ready one day. And this is my big thing, again back to the irony of people
sort of learning the bad way and then learning the right way twenty years later.
And I'm doing a video very shortly on the school band marching bands, especially in the States, it kills me, it kills them.
We're not really looking after the best interests of our students.
Is the fact that the people that are engaging in this is generally 35+ semi pro to pro.
Weve got to get the beginners doing it. If you've got friends share this with them. Young kids.
Dudes that are smashing themselves in marching band and the school band system
where they're just being forced to play stuff that they're not ready for. Share this with them.
Get them to do the FREE thing. I'll set them up for life for the free Largo Status Stage, right!?
Because there's enough in this week. If you haven't got the concepts of it, go back and do it again.
All of the problems, up there, that people eventually have, to varying degrees, stem from what's going wrong back in the first five days there.
It's all there if you're smart enough to look deeply into it. You will find answers.
I know there are people sitting here watching this that are like "You are full of it" I don't care. I don't.
You'll never try what I'm saying and you'll completely disagree and that's okay. You don't have to.
And especially if you're playing great and happy with your playing. You're lucky, you're one of the lucky ones but not everyone's as lucky as you.
But if you're a teacher, I would implore you to learn this stuff so when the old lip buzz, mouthpiece buzz, trumpet,
doesn't work for a student, you see them having all kinds of trouble. Puffing cheeks. Closing the throat. Sounding like beginner.
Don't let them sound like a beginner. Encourage them to sound professional.
Kids can make amazing sounds if they know what they're doing but the psychology, and innately, is blow faster.
It's hard work. We've got to stop it. We've got to stop it. And so now's the time.