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Tips and gratuities for trumpet help
How to improve useable range & endurance quickly.
AIR not lips.
Breath Control, Tongue Arch & Pivot.
Buzzing, Air and RANGE.
How buzzing helps your playing.
An overview of Farkas, Maggio, Stevens, Superchops and Lip Buzzing embouchures.
Arch vs compression vs tension vs aperture.
Wild Thing review.
Mark Curry Mouthpieces.
What trumpet should I buy?
Trumpet and mouthpiece design.
Bach vs. Schilke mouthpiece sizes.
Practice schedule for Arban, Clarke and Schlossberg.
Playing Problem Chart.
Braces.
Why do I have bad days?
Naming the C's by register.
Adam & Weast test results.
Tell me about Don 'Jake' Jacoby.
Clint 'Pops' McLaughlin
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The embouchure controls the pitch and to some degree the quality of your sound.
Regardless of the embouchure you use these things MUST always happen.
The lips must be moist. The surface tension of the water aids in setting up the vibrations.
The lips must be touching. (If the air has nothing to fight there is NO buzz.)
Use as Little pressure as possible. Pressure only separates the lips and stops the sound. Backing off the pressure will allow you to soar.
Everyone says Tighten up to play high. Hold something between your finger and thumb. That squeeze is what they
are talking about. Playing high involves slightly pushing your lips together as you ascend.
This is the embouchure Mendez played. When he taught he made his students lip buzz a month before he gave them a mouthpiece. He then made them mouthpiece buzz a month before he gave them the trumpet. By then they could change pitches and had decent tone. I use this embouchure on most of my students.
The fastest way to successfully go to a closed embouchure is :
Lip Buzz: (Like spitting seeds.)
Do this 15 - 30 minutes a day. Buzz scales, songs, arpeggios, etudes....
Set your new embouchure:
Buzz a note and while holding the buzz sneak the horn & mpc into playing position.
Take ALL breaths through your nose (so you don't disturb the embouchure). (Most open aperture players try to start closed and open up the chops as they breathe. They pin the lips in place while separated and can only make the lips touch by using mpc pressure.)
And play songs and etudes.
(After the new setting is secure go back to normal breathing.)
Stay in the staff until you have strengthened the NEW embouchure.
Do a lip setting drill:
Buzz and sneak the horn into place to play 1 note. Remove the horn and start over. It takes thousands of good reps to break a bad habit.
Do those things for 1 month.
Then AFTER the new embouchure is set and the chops are stronger you can work on the Stevens palming exercise. I only do open arpeggios with this. Do it 15 minutes a day and after a month you should be able to play over High C with almost no pressure.
Then you must learn to relax the face and let the tone become full. Work on pulling the corners in to adjust tone color and assist range. Relearn your pivot and tongue arch. Work on more efficient breathing....
Clint 'Pops' McLaughlin
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