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International Trumpet Guild® Journal Reprints from the International Trumpet Guild ® Journal to promote communications among trumpet players around the world and to improve the artistic level of performance, teaching, and literature associated with the trumpet CLINIC FRANK GABRIEL CAMPOS , C OLUMN EDITOR CONQ UERI NG VAL SALVA BY FRANK GABRIEL CAMPOS October 2015 • Page 51 The International Trumpet Guild ® (ITG) is the copyright owner of all data contained in this file. ITG gives the individual end-user the right to: • Download and retain an electronic copy of this file on a single workstation that you own • Transmit an unaltered copy of this file to any single individual end-user, so long as no fee, whether direct or indirect is charged • Print a single copy of pages of this file • Quote fair use passages of this file in not-for-profit research papers as long as the ITGJ, date, and page number are cited as the source. 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CLINIC FRANK GABRIEL CAMPOS , C OLUMN EDITOR Clinic addresses a wide variety of teaching and playing issues. Ideas and suggestions should be directed to: Frank Gabriel Campos, Clinic Editor, Whalen Center for Music, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY 14850 USA; [email protected] CONQ UERI NG VAL SALVA BY FRANK GABRIEL CAMPOS ne of the most misunderstood aspects of playing the The Valsalva maneuver “puts the brakes on” the airstream by trumpet is the blowing of the very concentrated, constricting or completely closing the throat (glottis) in focused, or “supported” airstream that is so necessary response to the contraction of the lower abdominal muscles. for high-level performance. Correct breath support on the When playing the trumpet, however, the throat must always trumpet requires the air in the lungs to be moderately to highly be naturally open and “in neutral.” In The Art of Brass Playing, 2 compressed, yet the air must be free to exit the body without Philip Farkas says that the glottis should be used to control the being locked down under pressure. Some players know how to airstream in performance, but he actually rejected this idea do this, others struggle to learn it, and many never get it. It is soon after his book was published. In correct trumpet per - easy to learn the wrong way to blow if we are taught as begin - formance, the throat is never used to “brake” the air. ners to tighten the abdominal muscles When the Valsalva maneuver is acti - rather than to blow freely. In so many vated during brass performance, the cases, that is when the Valsalva maneu - “Playing the trumpet while the harder one tries to support the air, the ver is activated for the first time, and Valsalva maneuver is activated tighter the throat closes. It is like step - that is when the trouble begins. ping on a car’s accelerator and brake Playing the trumpet while the Val - is one of the most destructive pedals simultaneously; the brake usual - salva maneuver is activated is one of ly wins. In short, we do not want the the most destructive performance performance habits of all. ” Valsalva maneuver activated at all when habits of all. It ruins range, endurance, we play a wind or brass instrument. and sound and makes performance at the highest level difficult Unfortunately, millions of players confuse this overly tight, or impossible. It sneaks into the habits of young players under closed approach for correct support. It is not an easy habit to the pretense of being correct support, but it is a parasite that break, but there is a way. robs us of our full power. Though it is among the most com - How do we learn to support the airstream properly, especial - mon problems in trumpet performance, many trumpet teach - ly if we have learned to do it incorrectly with the Valsalva ers and public school teachers know little or nothing about it. maneuver activated? There is only one way to conquer this bad It is rarely recognized as the cause of poor performance, but it habit; it must be overcome slowly, over time. Mark Twain is often at the root of chronic and seemingly impossible-to- famously said, “Habit is habit, and not to be flung out of the solve problems. What exactly is it? 1 window by any man, but coaxed downstairs one step at a time.” For our purposes, the Valsalva maneuver is the sympathetic Being rid of a bad habit, especially a deeply ingrained, com - closing of the glottis (throat) that occurs when we tense the pletely automatic habit, is a slow process that requires all of lower abdominal muscles. For example, when we need to your attention to the task. cough, the simultaneous contraction of the lower abdominals The Valsalva maneuver is just a habit, and it can be replaced and the locking of the throat increase with new, correct behavior. But trying the air pressure in the lungs. That is “Being rid of a bad habit, espe - to change a bad habit into a good one the Valsalva maneuver. When we re - is too difficult and time consuming. It lease the pressurized air from the cially a deeply ingrained, com - is too great a battle to fight old pat - locked throat, the cough happens. It terns that we have practiced for years. all takes place automatically, in the pletely automatic habit, is a It is easier to simply replace the bad twinkling of an eye. slow process that requires all of habit with a better one. Start by devel - The Valsalva maneuver is also acti - oping the new habit alongside the old vated when we lift something heavy or your attention to the task. ” one. The more time you spend rein - prepare for a punch to the abdomen. forcing the new way and the less time Young students with no experience might easily mistake this reinforcing the old way, the sooner the new way will become tight, choked feeling for correct support, especially when your default. teachers are coaching them to tighten the belly area, which The most effective way to develop correct breathing habits is tends to lock the air in the body, rather than asking them to through breathing exercises. Here are two exercises that teach blow, which gets the air moving out. the correct technique of blowing a supported airstream with © 2015 International Trumpet Guild October 2015 / ITG Journal 51 the throat open. With regular use, they will establish a new set was one of the top studio lead players in Los Angeles from of breathing habits and develop great strength in the muscles the 1960s until he died in 1978 at the age of 41 . He can be of respiration. heard on over 100 recordings by major artists of the day With this or any other breathing exercises, be sure to stop from Frank Sinatra to the Fifth Dimension, and he was immediately if you become dizzy. Practice while sitting on a Henry Mancini’s favorite trumpet player. He was the lead bed or sofa until you know what player on the original themes to you can handle physically. Do not “Timed Panting is the greatest exer - The Jetsons and Hawaii Five-O tel - push or overdo this or any other evision shows. Brisbois was par - breathing exercise. cise I know to fix chronic breathing ticularly noted for his uncanny Timed Panting is the greatest accuracy and incredible control of exercise I know to fix chronic problems, teach correct support, a freakishly high upper register breathing problems, teach correct and strengthen the muscles used for that extended well beyond triple support, and strengthen the mus - high C. cles used for sucking air in and sucking air in and blowing it out. ” I have written about Bud Bris - blowing it out. When you pant, bois’s favorite breathing exercise the throat is naturally open, exactly as needed when you play previously. 4 In this transcription by Kevin Seeley of a clinic the trumpet. The more you pant, the stronger and more effi - from the 1970s , Brisbois describes his favorite exercise for cient you will become. After practicing panting for many developing and maintaining his incredible breath control and weeks, it will be almost impossible to blow incorrectly. You will strength: find you have trained yourself to produce a focused airstream “This is the best breathing exercise I have ever of compressed air with a completely open and relaxed throat. known, and this works within a week. Stand in front I have written about this wonderful exercise several times in of a mirror, without a shirt on. This takes one week, the past and will continue to sing its praises.
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