Spanish El ejercicio del Lápiz (The Pencil Exercise).

The Slice Builder is a 10-week trumpet playing exercise routine designed to increase your trumpet range and endurance.

The Pencil Exercise
By Clint ‘Pops’
McLaughlin

The first topic is the basic pencil drill and the advanced pencil drill.
Finally, pictures show exactly how to do it.
The advanced drill, while used for over 40 years, has never been written about in any book. It will seriously build your range.

The Pencil Drill (page 14) is the 10-week isometric drill course that will give you more trumpet range and endurance. It has NO music.

The next question is how to reduce pressure.
I’ve discovered a very unique way of holding the horn that allows you to play normally and look normal, but prevents you from using excessive pressure.
This includes several pictures to demonstrate exactly how and why it works.

The last issue is how some people get an open aperture from how they take a breath.
Thousands of players breathe in a way that forces them to readjust the embouchure after each breath. This hampers consistency. The well in this case, several frames, is worth more than 10,000 words. Most people never notice this has happened until I demonstrate it to them. But the results of knowing how to stop it are invaluable.

This has been known to almost change the lives of players.

Pops