Embouchure Placement

Embouchure placement is not a sure thing.

If you have grown up, and you’ve taken lessons, and you’ve played for a long time, yet you’re still not happy with the sound that you’re getting, think about your embouchure and its relationship to your lip.

I thought for so long that, “hey, this is my embouchure.” This is how my embouchure goes. This is how I’ve always played. This is how the flute fits onto my embouchure.

It’s there.

It’s cemented.

Something else has to happen in order for me to improve my tone.

So I thought.

I finally found a teacher that taught me that I could and should experiment with my embouchure placement.

Experiment?

Change the sacrosanct?

Violate the inviolable?

Touch the untouchable?

Yes Experiment!

Experiment with the angle at which I am blowing.

If I blow at 3 different angles, I have three different sounds. It’s going to change how I’m going to sound by just moving the angle of which the air is being split by the strike edge.

You can also experiment with moving the flute up on your lip, or even down, depending on the size of your lower lip. That lower lip can really dictate what you need to do in order to get a better sound.