Yesterday's whole afternoon was spent finding the things for, packing, and processing something like 15 refunds for (because it has to be done in little slices), ONE order. It was relief putting that ONE box on the bike trailer and taking off for FedEx with it.
I then ate a beef on rice thing from H Mart, sans most of the rice of course, and rode up to 99 Ranch for a couple of things, and studied a bit at the Baguette.
It's not the best study environment but beats none, as when I got back I got all involved finding more things, as I still had 20-odd to ship. I finally gave up on packing anything last night and did a practice session which was a good one. I learned there's a little key, between the middle and ring finger on the right hand, that changes B to Bb or is it the other way around? In any case, it's clumsy to do it otherwise, which is why that little key is a thing. Cool.
And at least before I got more tired, I had a good vibrato. There are three kinds of vibrato; breath vibrato, jaw vibrato, and hand vibrato. At least in trumpet, breath vibrato was very much discourages. "Makes you sound like a bleating goat" was the opinion. I believe flute uses breath vibrato as the other two are impractical. On trumpet, "hand" vibrato simply involves using the hand to "vibrate" the trumpet against the lips.
I never cared for hand vibrato, even though no less than Louis Armstrong and Maurice Andre' used it. And in old clips of classic jazz/swing bands, you can look down the row of trumpeters and see about half of them are using it.
The other half are using jaw vibrato and that was my method. Why use my hand to shove the trumpet against my face in any form, when I'm trying to use less mouthpiece pressure, the enemy of good relaxed trumpet playing? And for better or worse, it's my go-to on clarinet.
Since my goal is not the lofty one of becoming a classical clarinet player, I'm not going to worry about it. It's nice to see that even as a beginner I'm on the way to a sound the public will like.
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