Think of it like putting pressure on a garden hose to make the water travel faster/farther. Instead of creating a kink in the hose tubing, think of compressing the abdominal muscles with a slight “squeeze” (same muscles that contract when you cough) and instead of blocking off the nozzle with your thumb, think of a smaller aperture between the lips.
@@SamuelPlaysBrass well, engaging the exhalation muscles increases the air pressure and thereby increases the loudness of the tone. Tightening the aperture creates a higher pitch (it has nothing to do with air "speed").
@@darryljones9208 I’m sorry, but I have to disagree. If I start exhaling without engaging the muscles of the diaphragm and then engage said muscles, the exhale begins to sound more like a hiss as it is forced to travel through the same size aperture at a higher rate. If the aperture does not give in to the pressure, and stays small, the air must travel faster. I know that’s a contentious point, but how else would we go about changing the speed of the air?
@@SamuelPlaysBrass while increasing the pressure bearing on an aperture will indeed increase the velocity of flow through it , making the aperture smaller does not increase the velocity further. Making the aperture smaller DOES reduce the air flow (what is often mistakenly referred to as air "volume") The ACTION of making the aperture smaller is what controls the pitch. Then we apply concurrently the air pressure required for the dynamic we intend to play. But air "speed " does not correlate to pitch. Otherwise playing dynamics on a constant tone would be impossible.
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Air "speed "? How exactly does one make the air "faster"?
And by "volume " I assume you mean air flow. Right?
Think of it like putting pressure on a garden hose to make the water travel faster/farther. Instead of creating a kink in the hose tubing, think of compressing the abdominal muscles with a slight “squeeze” (same muscles that contract when you cough) and instead of blocking off the nozzle with your thumb, think of a smaller aperture between the lips.
@@SamuelPlaysBrass well, engaging the exhalation muscles increases the air pressure and thereby increases the loudness of the tone. Tightening the aperture creates a higher pitch (it has nothing to do with air "speed").
@@darryljones9208 I’m sorry, but I have to disagree. If I start exhaling without engaging the muscles of the diaphragm and then engage said muscles, the exhale begins to sound more like a hiss as it is forced to travel through the same size aperture at a higher rate. If the aperture does not give in to the pressure, and stays small, the air must travel faster. I know that’s a contentious point, but how else would we go about changing the speed of the air?
@@SamuelPlaysBrass while increasing the pressure bearing on an aperture will indeed increase the velocity of flow through it , making the aperture smaller does not increase the velocity further. Making the aperture smaller DOES reduce the air flow (what is often mistakenly referred to as air "volume")
The ACTION of making the aperture smaller is what controls the pitch. Then we apply concurrently the air pressure required for the dynamic we intend to play.
But air "speed " does not correlate to pitch. Otherwise playing dynamics on a constant tone would be impossible.
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