Re: a fatter sound
Here's a copy and paste from my post in the jazz forum:
If you're tone is sounding thin and brassy, it's most likely your airstream. Try playing your tenor, and then take the mouthpiece out and play into your hand. Feel the air as it's coming out onto your hand. Is that air warm or cold? It should be warm, a lot players blow quick small airstreams, resulting in cold air. That makes for a thin sound. You want to think more about exhaling than blowing when you play. And when you are pushing air out, instead of playing out of your lungs, try to think about playing from your stomach. You can practice this stuff just doing long tones, so it's easier to concentrate on the task at hand. Give that a try for a few weeks, your tone should fatten up.
And an addition to that, loosen up your throat muscles, let them relax. Also I notice a lot of players play to closed inside their mouth. Open that up too.
Depending on whether you're talking about jazz or classical here, for jazz you should be using a jazz eoumbechre, and for me that means letting your lower lip out some. I'm sure I'll get attacked for telling you that by the million other ideas for a jazz eoumbechre, but it has worked well for me.
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