I had my first Sax practice today since my diagnosis of ‘tongue-tie’ started to show itself…today’s practice went really well! 🙂 Better than I expected for sure. I didn’t feel any pain at all, just a little stiffness and that’s because of my tongue-tie. I just did the good-ole basics of my scales/chords, some long tones, Johnny’s exercise of “eeh-ahh” from the lessons we find on the home page, played a good chunk of Harlem Nocturne (great song for rebooting the embouchure) and I’m feeling really good. I have my appointment on July 12th with my Orthodonist to get the Tendon under my tongue cut down to size and with some rehab in the way of range of motion exercises then should be back to normal. I waited until the end of practice to make sure my embouchure muscles were all warmed up to do this….I still popped out Altissimo G on my first attempt! 🙂 Got a long way to go before I’ll be at 100%, but this was very encouraging today…so glad I went and got a 2nd opinion before giving up, let that be a good lesson. Here’s a link for you that defines tongue-tie and how it affects wind instrument players.
http://www.fauquierent.net/adulttonguetie.htm
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