From rehabilitation to training: pedagogical applications of the personal process of embouchure rehabilitation in the initial teaching of the trumpet

Resumen

This article analyzes the pedagogical applications derived from a personal process of rehabilitation of the embouchure, developed after a technical dysfunction that seriously affected the author's instrumental practice. The original research, of an autoethnographic nature, made it possible to accurately document the phases of problem recognition, deconstruction of automatisms, motor re-education and sound readaptation. In the present reworking, these phases were reinterpreted as initial teaching tools for the training of young trumpeters.

The work demonstrates that the principles used in recovery - attentive listening, body awareness, use of internal vocalization and working with the mouthpiece - not only serve to repair a damaged embouchure, but also to prevent dysfunctions and promote a healthy relationship between body and sound from the first years of learning. Thus, a pedagogy based on perception, self-regulation and the natural progression of the instrumental gesture is proposed, in line with Jordi Albert's approaches on expert motor practice and internal hearing projection.