Embouchure Placement, Resonance, and Slotting

[JTeagarden]

Like many of you, I have a kind of "sweet spot" placement of my embouchure where the horn resonates better (kind of "sings"), and moving from one partial to the next is much easier (the slots seemingly not as wide and locked in, and taking a lot less physical effort in the embouchure itself to move between partials).

This sweet spot is slightly assymentric on the "horizontal" axis (for lack of a better description, in my particular case, meaning when viewed from above, embouchure/face angled slighty to the left, but centered on the MP).

I think this is a common phenomenon, and a kind of layman's description of what Doug Elliott shows you when you take a lesson with him, but curious if there is a common understanding as to why these two elements (greater resonance and easier slotting) seem to go hand-in-hand.

[Doug Elliott]

Nobody's face or dental structure is exactly symmetrical.

[JTeagarden]

I was led to believe by my mother that I had classical Greek features, this is a disappointment.

Definitely get why asymmentric might work, just wondering whether greater resonance and easier movement between partials is really a "thing."

[Doug Elliott]

Absolutely