How To Improve Your Chops Without Playing A Note: For Brass & Winds: Volume 1 - Softcover

Boe, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0997756918 ISBN 13: 9780997756913

Publisher: David Boe, 2016

Synopsis

How To Improve Your Chops Without Playing A Note takes a physical therapy approach music performance, developing key musculature without your instrument. As applied to brass and wind instruments, this involves specialized development of the embouchure, the part of a wind player's lips and face that touch the instrument. Using techniques that have traditionally been applied to athletic performance, the author describes muscle building exercises designed specifically for the embouchure. This approach has several advantages, and has been shown to be tremendously beneficial to players at all levels. In particular, it allows players to maintain and improve muscle tone, even at times when they are unable to practice their instrument. Additionally, the approach allows for muscle development that cannot be achieved while playing, yet has the potential to dramatically improve performance.

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About the Author

Born in Seattle, David Boe is a lifelong musician. He took up the trumpet at the age of ten. He plays with various musical groups in Portland, Oregon. In addition to his Improve Your Chops series, he has contributed new approaches in a variety of other topics, including the development of therapies to treat tinnitus, snoring, sleep apnea, and other conditions. As a creative writer, he has written a children's book, The Legend of Greenbeard, the Famous Pirate of Poitiers, published on Amazon.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: David Boe
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0997756918
• ISBN 13: 9780997756913
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 40