


We can NOT change things to make them sound pretty as that disrupts the one embouchure set. Playing the pedals correctly requires us to think more about keeping the normal embouchure and letting things build and correct by themselves.

I finally decided to write a pedal book explaining the HOW to play pedals and using a setpoint written into every exercise to promote ONE embouchure set for the whole exercise. None of them ever used a setpoint idea even though some of the teachers who wrote the books used a setpoint when playing. Part of the problem was always how the exercises in the books were written. I and countless other teachers have complained for years about people doing pedals the wrong way and creating problems in their playing.
