Re: [Shaku] Embouchure, sound, exercise

From: Bill Fletcher (bill@scienceandart.com)
Date: Fri May 13 2005 - 13:21:57 PDT


There was another important question in James' email that hasn't been
addressed yet and I think it affects a lot of players. Myself for one!
  He mentioned the "subvocalization" phenomena that happens sometimes .
. . or a lot of the time. I even heard one of the Japanese Masters
at the New York festival making a lot of these vocal sounds during his
beautiful shakuhachi performance and it is quite distracting. I also
heard Michael Gould mention at the Colorado camp that he had spent a
lot of time getting over this sometime in his past.

Has anyone addressed this in a way that could be shared as a technique
for stopping the little "subvocalization" grunts, groans and ahhh's?

Thanks,

Bill

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