Posted by Alan Herold on March 18, 2001 at 19:44:21:
In Reply to: starting notes posted by bad buzz on March 18, 2001 at 19:23:44:
Don't think too much. Go for more of a feel than a sound... for a while. Try doing your warm ups at a medium loud volume. Set your embouchure as if you're in the middle of the note rather than at the beginning. Take a deep breath and at the attack, I kid you not (excuse me Sean), say in your mind "shit." Now, you have to do it right on the attack... right where the imaginary conductor in your head hits the ictus.
I had a teacher tell me that once, and it worked. I wouldn't tell that to a school aged student though.
It's a little wierd, but give it a try... if it doesn't work you only wasted 10 seconds!