Bobby Shew teaches Wedge Breathing for brass players
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ม.ค. 2021
- I recently conducted an interview with the great trumpet player and teacher Bobby Shew.
Bobby and I spoke for almost three hours on a variety of topics. One of the things we discussed was one of Bobby's specialties - breathing.
As Bobby mentions, he has studied anatomy for many years and through that study, he's learned a great deal about the human body and the mechanical operation specific to breathing.
Bobby's journey on this topic started after asking Maynard Ferguson about his particular method of breathing that allowed him to play as he did. Maynard handed Bobby a book on Yoga breathing and after getting a little more instruction from another trumpet great, Bud Brisbois, Bobby began his lifelong exploration on brass excellence.
In this 30 minute segment, I've inserted graphics from Bobbby that illustrate the six steps in what Bobby calls the Wedge Breathing method.
I'll admit that after listening to Bobby and editing our conversation (requiring more focused listening) my own range and overall playing has been strengthened. One of my favorite tips from Bobby is his insistence on relying less on the mouth/face and instead, producing one's sound from proper breathing.
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My first virtual lesson with Bobby this past year in April changed my life plus therapeutic, spiritual, educational, inspirational and stuff...his philosophy, teaching and education skills plus his talk on the Wedge breathing speaks clearly
Are you still playing?
@@MaynardFreek yes I am
A walking bible on what's right in trumpet breathing techniques. Thanks Bobby.
Took up playing again after 45yrs. AND I picked up a beautiful lil Yamaha YRT 4335 GSAC for $600CDN to boot Mr. Shew!! Thanks so mych much for sharing your gift with us amateurs!!🎺
Thank you for posting this! I've heard Bobby explain this a number of times. Everytime I hear him teach this I learn more and more. Bobby is such a great teacher and player. We are indebted.
Booby is the best of the best. If you follow what he says, plays, teaches you win a (musical and personal) lottery. 🙏🙏🙏
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I'm watching it right now.
This video is invaluable to playing trumpet! Bobby is a great expert! I'm intensely interested in the information he is sharing here!
Well done Mike, sharing this with my students!
Played second chair in his big band when he came to the UK in around 1991.. It was Bobby who convinced me to stop playing trumpet.
I am so grateful to Bobby as I went on to write and produce - and I got lucky!
Just started playing trumpet again last year.
I'd like to hear more about this story!
Bobby is a great jazz trumpeter. Some good advice on his concept of ‘wedge’ breathing. Worth investigating. Many thanks. 🥶🙏🇬🇧🥶👍
Such great instruction! I saw this video a couple of years ago and simply began practicing his fully conscious wedge breathing, my playing improved by 30-40%, thank you Bobby Shew
That was great watching that video. When I was taking lessons from Carmine Caruso I would ask him about breathing. One day he drew a picture for me and explained the the process. It was a lesson that stood with me till this day. Thank you for the detailed explanation. I know this lesson will stay with me in the same way.
Great great info and still a secret to many of us... thank you very much for sharing..
So fun to hear you Boobby, you got all the answers!
Excellent lesson. Vrery helpful. Thank you.
Thank you Bobby, this is wonderful information You are truly a Master Teacher / Player and a Great Gift from God!
What a wise, humble man!
It's a very touchy subject. I like the analogy by C. Gordon: - Breath like you are running with the ball as if football player or like a weightlifter position as about to lift...in both examples your chest is up and naturally taking enough air. Air is only gets to the lungs. This will generate very strong and controlled power in playing on trumpet as long as chest is up.. btw, diaphragm is involuntary muscle that can't be controlled by human.
This concept helped me and many others to play easy and enjoyable.
Regardless I absolutely respect Bobby...
What's touchy about it? Bobby explains it perfectly plus he can do it over and over again creating incredible compression. He never says the air can go anywhere but the lungs.
Bobby Shew is the man !!
Would love to see the fluroscope video!!
great stuff "Music Savvy". Thanks for sharing. Can you post the document with illustrations about the wedge that he sent you? Really great stuff!
Spent two weeks with Bobby years ago very focussed player and teacher great guy amazing player and always looks at the positive
Are you still playing?
Yip sure am
A grand Master ❤️👍
The Greatest!
Hey, Bobby! You probably don't remember me. I met & played with you in Las Vegas ( something like 50 years ago..is that possible? I guess so! ) Anyway, I listened to your teaching on wedge breathing & I think it helped me quite a bit! I have added trumpet to my little family of horns & I need all the help I can get. Just wanted to say thanks! your friend, John.
i love how he play
This is very good. Very very good. Of course it is...it is Bobby Shew...:-)
The great Bobby Shew
Played for Buddy Rich for 18 months. was fired 26 times
Composed Red Snapper. Love that tune.
"Where there's tremendous arrogance, you're looking at the superficial side of insecurity"
--Bobby Shew
Great video! In that Doc Severinsen clip near the end, are the shoulders going up each time instead of releasing the wedge grip? IOW a “topping-off” breath instead of a full breath each time (steps 1-5 of the wedge)?
Thank you!
So good!!! Can the rest of the interview be seen anywhere?
Hi G, fancy seeing you here!
@@scotttinkler man, this was a year ago!! You know I love hearing Bobby talk
@@MrGiannimarinucci and so do I, he's a bloody legend and right on point as always.
@@scotttinkler yeah, he gave a bunch of interviews during lockdowns etc, so much good sense.
@@MrGiannimarinucci yep I reckon I watched them all too! Can't get too much of him.
Bobby/Michael/Music Savvy team, the video seems to stop abruptly at 37:34?
I feel I’m missing vital information from Bobby! Can you let me have the full video or fix it on TH-cam?
Thanks, Peter
HEY I was in a big band that went to Australia with Bobby. 👍🏼👍🏼
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Bobby. By the time you get all those steps done,the song will be over already.lol.Best Wishes.
Only if your never understand them.
19:54 «Don't even think about your diaphragm. Think about breathing properly and the diaphragm will function.» That's it. Thanks Bobby. Thanks Mike. 🙏
It’s compressed air pushed up by the diaphragm. Take a breath and lift and push. Same muscles and physical activity used to sing. Don’t complicate it, just do it 🤷♂️🤪👍🎶🕺🏴🇬🇧
Mr Shew, the diaphragm IS a MUSCLE, not a "membrane." It is the primary and vastly dominant breathing muscle.
The intercostal (rib) muscles assist the diaphragm. Two neck muscles, the sternocleidomasoid and scalenes muscles help elevate the ribs, and thus assist the intercostals. Other muscles that contribute to breathing are the serratus anterior, pectoralis major and pectoralis minor, trapezius, latissimus dorsi, erector spinae, iliocostalis, quadratus lumborum, serratus posterior superior, serratus posterior inferior, levatores costarum, transversus thoracis, and subclavius muscles.
The rectus abdomini and transverse abdominus muscles support the diaphragm, as well as provide compression and expelling force, ie, breath support.
I'm a trumpet player, a competing weightlifter, have studied yoga breathing, and have extensive academic and practical knowledge of anatomy and physiology,
Doesn't really change what he's saying about the wedge breath and how it can help with brass playing.
You may be "a trumpet player, a competing weightlifter, have studied yoga breathing, and have extensive academic and practical knowledge of anatomy and physiology," but you lack humility.
@@IndianOutlaw1870 you lack a brain.
I truly enjoy Bobby who is truly one of the greats in music, but he is wrong when he says that the diaphragm is a membrane and NOT a muscle. It is a thin muscle and is listed as a MUSCLE in all literature about anatomy. This diaphragm muscle is what does the work of moving the lungs by compression. People can breathe (regular intake and output) on and on, all without much involvement of the other thoracic muscles like the abdominals, or various other "core" section muscles. He is right that there are both voluntary and involuntary muscle contractions and that extreme actions require extra actions by anatomy. These actions are controlled by very lower sections of our brain area, which operate to do things like keeping the heart beating, sweating, having hairs stand up on the skin, doing a "shrug" motion in the shoulders area, or taking regular breaths. and yes, the other muscles can really become involved and help when massive pressure is needed.
Great insights about the "never raise shoulders" stuff. I agree that we need to follow natural motions, and simply do not ARTIFICIALLY use motions that are not needed or natural. One need not PREVENT natural adjusting motions of things like shoulders or abdominals. Your body mostly knows how to move around to accomplish needed actions.
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Breath in through your navel, breath out as if you're steaming up a window pane to write your name on.
WHO DOWN VOTES THIS!?!
Yeah, it seems crazy, but only 4 fools out of 17,000 views is pretty low!
The diaphragm IS A MUSCLE!
No. Man was never on all fours 🤷♂️🤪👍🏴
This is nothing else than YOGA breathing.. known by yogis for centuries.
That's also what he calls it
Yeah genius. He says that a hundred times.
So? I don’t think he’s breaking any copyright laws. Bobby explains it better than any of the numerous yoga books I’ve read since Maynard Ferguson said that was his approach.