Buzzing Exercise Analysis

4.3.3.1 Buzzing exercise

The buzzing exercise is a principal idea of embouchure building, to gain the stronger muscle. It has a various method to do exercises. However, the principal objective of buzzing is to develop the embouchure to able to play the high register. The player should begin to practice buzzing with an easy exercise and not too high register at the beginning. Due to high register can harm the muscle. the player have to ensure to always start each note with “Breat Attack”, start note by without tongue, to keep the oral space fully open at all time. The very first exercise to start is a glissano exercise on the mouthpiece. Figure 4.26. Glissado buzzing exercise, mm1-8. This exercise, the player have to practice with the

All these motion should base on scales in various types. Noticeably, the player must practice whit the slow tempo, to allow the player has more time to listen to their playing. Figure 4.29. the oblique motion exercises for multiphonics. From figure 4.29. The player has to listen to the interval between the two voices. Try to play both voices in tune and focus on the intonation. Also, the player should practice with the inverse version by hum a steady pitch while playing the scale on the tuba as well. Since the player comfortable with this exercise, the player can do some of another type of scales including the chromatic scale in both exercise versions. When the player able to do these exercise, the player can begin to the piece.

4.3.5 Apply Multiphonics to the Piece

In Encounter II , multiphonics is presented in the third and the fourth movement. The first entry of multiphonic appears in mm. thirty-eight. The humming C-natural note is sung suddenly after the exactly the sam pitch. The player starts to practice from mm. thirty-seven to the mm. thirty-eight without the lower voice in the second mm. To keep an accurate intonation before adding the lower