Surprisingly
my lip isn't irritated after practice today. Weird? I tried to play higher than
normal. Safe to say spasms are feeling like they're almost to the point of
being completely gone and have been for a while. Even the feeling of them being
beneath the surface is getting less noticeable!
Hooray!!!! I never thought they
would go away in my mid-to-low register. Hope I don't jinx myself by saying
this.
But
now I just need to stabilize the notes (lots of air leaking going on, and I
really don't feel like I have 100% grip on the core), and work on landing on them
via larger interval jumps.
There's
still a ton of work to do, but with the involuntary muscle contractions being
almost completely gone (still some embouchure collapsing going on when working
on flexibility). When there are spasms that occur, they are at least
controllable because they are right beneath the surface - still frustrating to
sense them though. It's gotten a lot easier to focus on specific things in my
playing.
Hopefully
everything keeps getting better. So far progress has been less sporadic;
meaning I feel it's not one huge step back for every 2 steps forward. Just have
to patience and faith.
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