Low Passages

Water Music · Post by **Water Music** » Fri May 26, 2006 2:22 am

Wow, sounds pretty weird for your whole face to jiggle. When I play, everyrange that is, I see everything fine, except digital clocks and computers. Basically just light looks shaken.

pulseczar · Post by **pulseczar** » Fri May 26, 2006 2:31 am

memorize your music?

iiipopes · Post by **iiipopes** » Sat May 27, 2006 11:35 pm

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Tom B. · Post by **Tom B.** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:02 pm

The jiggling of digital displays, and the jiggling appearance of sheet music on a stand are different phenomena--and I've experienced them both. I agree with the posters who talk about the refresh frequency of displays and how this interracts with the bouncing of our eyeballs from music vibrations. That's interesting, but doesn't cause problems unless reading music off an electronic display.

But I've also experienced having trouble reading sheet music when moving down into the lower range, particularly at louder volumes. I think the latter is due to our heads vibrating at the pitch of the note we're playing (which is transitted to our heads through the mouthpiece). Lower frequencies cause our eyes to traverse a greater distance with each cycle, and that's why it more noticeable down low. It's just harder to focus when you're eyes are moving around. I'm gradually getting used to it, but don't know of any tricks except maybe a bit less mouthpiece pressure (hence--less transmission of vibration back through your teeth to the rest of your head).

Good luck.

Tom

porkchopsisgood · Post by **porkchopsisgood** » Sun May 28, 2006 12:06 pm

Water Music wrote:Wow, sounds pretty weird for your whole face to jiggle. When I play, everyrange that is, I see everything fine, except digital clocks and computers. Basically just light looks shaken.

GO PRACTICE!!!!!

Hope everything is well in PA.....and I hope you and Jay were able to figure something out....

If you get a chance, come down to VA this summer...comp tickets for all!

mclowbone · Post by **mclowbone** » Mon May 29, 2006 5:26 pm

Hey RG,
I have this problem too. I was playing "An Alpine Symphony" by Richard Strauss arranged by John Edmonson last week at my school. On some low notes my face started vibrating so violently that I couldn't read the music. It was a big problem because I didn't want to mess up and lose my chair.
My director told me that I got to fix it or he will move me to last chair. I found that if I used duck tape and tapped my cheeks to my neck that they wouldn't vibrate so bad. It didn't look real nice, but it got the job done.
I hope you find this very helpful.

XtremeEuph · Post by **XtremeEuph** » Mon May 29, 2006 5:39 pm

LMFAO.............im sorry but that is hilarious..........o boy