My trumpet teaching and trumpet books have been mentioned and quoted in dissertations, magazines, other books, websites, and even YouTube videos.

Dear Mr McLaughlin,
“The subliminal (Sleep Learning) Downloads” I received from you a few weeks ago are very helpful to me. I had to play Brahms trio last Friday (I’m playing French horn) and it was the first time since my first BIG stage fright (30 years ago) that I played without fear. I am so interested by everything I read on your site, especially about lip compression; all of this is so helpful for me. So, I thank you very much!

Anne

These are simple WAV files of about 7-8 megs. Many programs will burn it to CD if you want it that way. You can loop it and play it all day or all night.
The background is rain and wind chimes and the chimes mask the words completely. You will NOT hear the words at all!

Subliminal Sleep Learning is passive. It takes no work and all that you do is play the CD in the background. I play mine at night while I am sleeping using a CD/radio/alarm clock.

A real desire to change will help you to change faster. The messages work along with beliefs that you already have. If your beliefs support the change you want then it happens faster. If the messages are different from your beliefs then it takes longer to change. The messages help delete the current fears before they start to help.

So I am now offering digital downloads of subliminal sound files that are designed to help build a healthy level of confidence to help cure stage fright, another file that helps build a healthy practice desire and habits, I also have a file that is me giving instructions on breath support and tongue arch and hiss, another file that deals with open aperture and setpoint and one on fear of high notes.

These are simple WAV files of about 7-8 megs. Many programs will burn it to CD. You can loop it and play it all day or all night.
The background is rain and wind chimes and the chimes mask the words completely. You will NOT hear the words!

The cost for each file is 10 dollars and is available using PayPal. Or you can get all 5 for 30 dollars.

1. stage fright, more confidence (NOT instrument specific)
2. practice habits (NOT instrument specific)
3. breath support, tongue arch and hiss (Trumpet)
4. open aperture, lip setpoint (Trumpet)
5. fear of high notes (Trumpet)

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Here is a sample of the kind of info you get. This is NOT included in the 6-hour course, it is a free sample.

There are 6 hours of info just like this sample audio for $ 60.

Here are a couple of testimonials I have been getting on the 6-hour trumpet lessons download.

Thank you so much for putting this up for download, it has been incredibly valuable to me as I had all but given up playing and this is making things so much easier!!!
Everything sounds better, low notes fall out of the bell and I can get some sizzle on a High C without too much problem.

Chris

I want to thank you for making the 6 hrs of recordings available. I have been listening to them and the results have been spectacular. Using what I have learned so far from the tapes I can feel the vibrations inside the aperture tunnel instead of at the front of lips. My sound is more resonant and my chops don’t get sore the way they used to.
I had pretty much given up on the trumpet until I listened to these recordings. What I have heard so far in the recordings has given me a new approach that is working. Once I get through the recordings I would like to take some lessons.

Jeff

I had someone come for a trumpet lesson that was finishing his Masters and who had Focal Dystonia. Because of the Dystonia he couldn’t much and didn’t want to.

He came with QUESTIONS.

He had questions about every embouchure, teacher, tongue arch, breathing, tonguing, relaxing, pressure, compression, curl, resetting, mouthpieces, horns, Internet advice, if we need to play DHC (we don’t), visualization, sound models, lip buzzing, mouthpiece buzzing, set-point, set-point RELAXED, low-gear/high-gear (done with compression and a different tongue arch), flat chin and the Farkas book, pencil exercise, …
He asked questions about the questions and answers.

If I had known the lesson was going to be that I would NOT have used the 10 dollar mike on my computer. I would have used the video camera and the 300 dollar mike. But the whole thing was an accident. It just happened.

I decided to not erase the lesson. I wanted to listen to it and use the notes for book topics… It was just TOO good. Yes, there are cracks and pops but we managed to edit most of them. I sent the files to some of my students and all of them learned things from the files. (There are many with degrees in the group even DMAs.)
I finally decided that the info was just TOO good and there was TOO much to not use it as a teaching tool.

There are 6 hours of audio of these and during the trumpet lesson at one point, I play High C using the Stevens, Maggio, Super chops, Farkas, Buzzing, and overlapped embouchures (to show that all embouchures have potential) and also play High C, D, E, F, G while holding the horn by 1 valve stem. Yes, they would sound different if I warmed up, held the horn instead of suspending it from 1 valve, changed mouthpieces when I puckered (which puts more lip in the mouthpiece, or changed when I curled (which puts less lip in the cup) but the point was to show boom boom boom these embouchures all play. I think that people will be amazed at the power possible with no pressure. (I don’t play that way but we need to realize that pressure hinders vibrations and should NOT be how we control the notes). That was one of the times I wished it was video.

This is from a recent TPIN thread about these trumpet lessons files.
(question)
What I have heard so far, is that you asked him to make physical changes to change the sound, not to change the sound, and the physical changes will follow. Describing the changes in a way the student will understand, is a neat trick.

(answer)
Asking for physical change gives instant sound changes.
You heard that on the audio files.
Why were you surprised? Why take trumpet lessons if the teacher isn’t going to change anything?

The CAUSE of the sound is the embouchure and the EFFECT of the embouchure is the sound.
You HAVE to change the cause to change the effect.

The audio files are NOT going to be all rosie either. You will also get to hear MANY experiments with him later. Dystonia screws up what we do naturally and we have to look for what it will allow. That meant I had to test physical actions to see what they did for him. I needed to see where it failed and what the muscles were willing to do. 1000% easier without the Dystonia but I thought that the process led to good questions so I left it in.

I am selling these sound files for 60. It is the length of 6 music CDs and is 6 hours of trumpet lessons. (A couple of my students seriously suggested between 200 and 250 dollars.) A minute or 2 after you pay; an email will be sent to you. If you have problems send us an email. We check emails every night and will resend the download info for the book.

60 dollars for 6 hours of audio files.

Trumpet Audio Lessons – 6 Hour Training Program

When you can hear how techniques should sound, learning an instrument often becomes easier. Weekly trumpet audio lessons help musicians learn about tone, phrasing and musical control through painstaking listening to fine guidance. This 6 hours skills training program helps the Players to have detailed instruction which they can follow anytime either by practicing at home or during travel.

Since these lessons are audio based, students can repeat portions as many times as necessary for comprehension of key concepts.

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My trumpet teaching and trumpet books have been mentioned and quoted in dissertations, magazines, other books, web sites and even youtube videos.

Dear Mr McLaughlin,
“The subliminal (Sleep Learning) Downloads” I received from you a few weeks ago are very helpful to me. I had to play Brahms trio last Friday (I’m playing French horn) and it was the first time since my first BIG stage fright (30 years ago) that I played without fear. I am so interested by everything I read on your site, especially about lip compression; all of this is so helpful for me. So, I thank you very much!

Anne

These are simple wav files of about 7-8 megs. Many programs will burn it to CD if you want it that way. You can loop it and play it all day or all night.
The background is rain and wind chimes and the chimes mask the words completely. You will NOT hear the words at all!

Subliminal Sleep Learning is passive. It takes no work and all that you do is play the CD in the background. I play mine at night while I am sleeping using a CD/radio/alarm clock.

A real desire to change will help you to change faster. The messages work along with beliefs that you already have. If your beliefs support the change you want then it happens faster. If the messages are different from your beliefs then it takes longer to change. The messages help delete the current fears before they start to help.

So I am now offering a digital downloads of subliminal sound files that are designed to help build a healthy level of confidence to help cure stage fright, another file that helps build a healthy practice desire and habits, I also have a file that is me giving instructions on breath support and tongue arch and hiss, another file that deals with open aperture and setpoint and one on fear of high notes.

These are simple wav files of about 7-8 megs. Many programs will burn it to CD. You can loop it and play it all day or all night.
The background is rain and wind chimes and the chimes mask the words completely. You will NOT hear the words!

The cost for each file is 10 dollars and is available using paypal. Or you can get all 5 for 30 dollars.

1. stage fright, more confidence (NOT instrument specific)
2. practice habits (NOT instrument specific)
3. breath support, tongue arch and hiss (Trumpet)
4. open aperture, lip setpoint (Trumpet)
5. fear of high notes (Trumpet)

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My trumpet teaching and trumpet books have been mentioned and quoted in dissertations, magazines, other books, websites, and even YouTube videos.

Dear Mr McLaughlin,
“The subliminal (Sleep Learning) Downloads” I received from you a few weeks ago are very helpful to me. I had to play Brahms trio last Friday (I’m playing French horn) and it was the first time since my first BIG stage fright (30 years ago) that I played without fear. I am so interested by everything I read on your site, especially about lip compression; all of this is so helpful for me. So, I thank you very much!

Anne

These are simple wav files of about 7-8 megs. Many programs will burn it to CD if you want it that way. You can loop it and play it all day or all night.
The background is rain and wind chimes and the chimes mask the words completely. You will NOT hear the words at all!

Subliminal Sleep Learning is passive. It takes no work and all that you do is play the CD in the background. I play mine at night while I am sleeping using a CD/radio/alarm clock.

A real desire to change will help you to change faster. The messages work along with beliefs that you already have. If your beliefs support the change you want then it happens faster. If the messages are different from your beliefs then it takes longer to change. The messages help delete the current fears before they start to help.

So I am now offering a digital downloads of subliminal sound files that are designed to help build a healthy level of confidence to help cure stage fright, another file that helps build a healthy practice desire and habits, I also have a file that is me giving instructions on breath support and tongue arch and hiss, another file that deals with open aperture and setpoint and one on fear of high notes.

These are simple wav files of about 7-8 megs. Many programs will burn it to CD. You can loop it and play it all day or all night.
The background is rain and wind chimes and the chimes mask the words completely. You will NOT hear the words!

The cost for each file is 10 dollars and is available using paypal. Or you can get all 5 for 30 dollars.

1. stage fright, more confidence (NOT instrument specific)
2. practice habits (NOT instrument specific)
3. breath support, tongue arch and hiss (Trumpet)
4. open aperture, lip setpoint (Trumpet)
5. fear of high notes (Trumpet)

The post Sleep Learning: Part 2 – Better practice habits subliminal download appeared first on BBTrumpet.

My trumpet teaching and trumpet books have been mentioned and quoted in dissertations, magazines, other books, websites, and even YouTube videos.

Dear Mr McLaughlin,
“The subliminal (Sleep Learning) Downloads” I received from you a few weeks ago are very helpful to me. I had to play Brahms trio last Friday (I’m playing French horn) and it was the first time since my first BIG stage fright (30 years ago) that I played without fear. I am so interested by everything I read on your site, especially about lip compression; all of this is so helpful for me. So, I thank you very much!

Anne

These are simple WAV files of about 7-8 megs. Many programs will burn it to CD if you want it that way. You can loop it and play it all day or all night.
The background is rain and wind chimes and the chimes mask the words completely. You will NOT hear the words at all!

Subliminal Sleep Learning is passive. It takes no work and all that you do is play the CD in the background. I play mine at night while sleeping using a CD/radio/alarm clock.

A real desire to change will help you to change faster. The messages work along with beliefs that you already have. If your beliefs support the change you want then it happens faster. If the messages differ from your beliefs then it takes longer to change. The messages help delete the current fears before they start to help.

So I am now offering a digital downloads of subliminal sound files that are designed to help build a healthy level of confidence to help cure stage fright, another file that helps build a healthy practice desire and habits, I also have a file that is me giving instructions on breath support and tongue arch and hiss, another file that deals with open aperture and setpoint and one on fear of high notes.

These are simple wav files of about 7-8 megs. Many programs will burn it to CD. You can loop it and play it all day or all night.
The background is rain and wind chimes and the chimes mask the words completely. You will NOT hear the words!

The cost for each file is 10 dollars and is available using paypal. Or you can get all 5 for 30 dollars.

1. stage fright, more confidence (NOT instrument specific)
2. practice habits (NOT instrument specific)
3. breath support, tongue arch and hiss (Trumpet)
4. open aperture, lip setpoint (Trumpet)
5. fear of high notes (Trumpet)

I sent the letter below to a large group of pro players, college professors, and some well known internet forum readers to see what they thought. 95% responded and ALL of them wanted to know when they could order one. That led me to believe that I am NOT alone in thinking that this MAY be useful to some people.

I was pleased that within 12 hours of posting this on TPIN both a working Psychiatrist, and a working Psychologist wrote to thank me for doing this. Before I did this I consulted 3 in clinical practice and when I sent my letter out 2 weeks ago for feed back I got another therapist thanking me. That was 6 people working in the field of clinical Psychiatry that liked my idea.

Most people realize that much of what we do in life is controlled subconsciously and they also realize that we see and hear hundreds of subliminal messages every day. TV ads, print ads, billboards, songs, books, are all filled with subliminal messages. (It is illegal for them to have blatant messages like buy me however they use subliminal techniques anyway.

We all laugh at the fact that alcohol ads almost always have people in skimpy swimsuits but we know that they do it to suggest the fun we will have.

Some are more subtle like the Mr. Clean stand-up in the store. It reminds you of the TV commercials where he cleans the dirty house. Or the scissors at Wal-mart to remind you of the ads that claim they are the store that lowers prices. Those are still subliminal ads they suggest things at a subconscious level.

Yes we all know that the popcorn sales and coke sales subliminal in 1957 used made up numbers (sales increased but nobody really knows by how much). BUT subliminals have been used by many department store chains since the 70s to help stop shoplifting. There were articles about this in both Time and The Wall Street Journal citing the % that shop lifting was cut in the first 6 months they used the subliminals. (They are STILL played in stores.)

Studies unfortunately are a lot like opinion polls and are easily swayed by the viewpoint of the one running it.

A subliminal ad won’t make you start smoking if you don’t already smoke but it can get you to pick a brand to smoke. See it won’t make you do anything that you don’t want to do, but it may help kick start something that you do really want.
Thousands of people go to see hypnotists for smoking, eating and drinking disorders every year and some are helped.

Through the years I have given lessons to several psychologists. All of them have stated that they fully believe many playing problems and in particular the problem of stage fright is more psychological in nature than physical.

I have through the years asked these clinicians several questions including; Why take lessons if many problems are psychological? I was told that to break free you have to give your subconscious a reason to believe the problem is solved.

I also asked about subliminal things like Sleep CDs. I was told that while subliminal suggestions would NEVER make you do something that you didn’t want to do (like getting your boss to make you a full partner LOL); they do have some success in helping people do the things that they just didn’t seem to conquer on their own. I was also told that subliminal messages are better at this than affirmations because many people have such low self esteem that they subconsciously reject the affirmations.

I asked specifically about stage fright, confidence and playing in general. I was told that they would add desire to practice to the list. I was also told that those were areas that may show improvement through the use of subliminal tactics.

This has been on the back burner for years but in August of 06 something changed. My wife has had severe insomnia for a couple of years now and nothing has helped. Even the strongest sleeping pills give her a few hours of restless sleep at best. I bought and tried a subliminal CD to aid sleep. By the end of a week she stopped taking sleeping pills. By the end of 2 weeks she was getting at least 6 hours of sleep a day. (It is not always as restful as we would like but it is so much better that her health and blood pressure have both improved.
This really impressed me and so in October of 06 I bought a subliminal CD for exercise. It is difficult to make myself do the things my cardiologist wants because exercise often induces angina and of course that is both painful and scary. No I am NOT fit yet but I have used our exercise equipment 6 times a week since I started using a subliminal CD. I have doubled my workout time since I started too.

Those 2 things got me wondering about subliminal CDs and playing again.
I asked a subliminal CD company about this and was told that they get requests for diet, exercise, picking up dates, marriage fitness, confidence in the workplace, and several topics I won’t even mention. However; they have never been asked about trumpet playing.

I commissioned them to make me some subliminal CDs for trumpet playing. I did this because based on how this process has helped my family so far I think it is worth trying.

For years one of the things I told my students to do to help stage fright was to play in a really friendly environment and get positive reinforcement. Play at church or play at a nursing home. If they do it 1 time a week then they get positive reinforcement 4 times a month. With a subliminal CD if they play it 8 hours a night they get positive reinforcements 3000-4000 times a night.

There are things that I thought might be a good idea to include but I was told NO.
My point is that there has been quite a bit of thought and discussion into putting only the things that couldn’t hinder the player and were only positive.
An example is that I thought You are a great player, was a good line. I was told that for some people hearing GREAT 500 times a day would give them a swelled head and isn’t the kind of message we wanted to send.
Instead things like; you have a pleasant sound and many people enjoy hearing you play; left a positive message but did not encourage one to get too big an ego.

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My trumpet teaching and trumpet books have been mentioned and quoted in dissertations, magazines, other books, websites, and even YouTube videos.

Dear Mr McLaughlin,
“The subliminal (Sleep Learning) Downloads” I received from you a few weeks ago are very helpful to me. I had to play Brahms trio last Friday (I’m playing French horn) and it was the first time since my first BIG stage fright (30 years ago) that I played without fear. I am so interested by everything I read on your site, especially about lip compression; all of this is so helpful for me. So, I thank you very much!

Anne

These are simple wav files of about 7-8 megs. Many programs will burn it to CD if you want it that way. You can loop it and play it all day or all night.
The background is rain and wind chimes and the chimes mask the words completely. You will NOT hear the words at all!

Subliminal Sleep Learning is passive. It takes no work and all that you do is play the CD in the background. I play mine at night while I am sleeping using a CD/radio/alarm clock.

A real desire to change will help you to change faster. The messages work along with beliefs that you already have. If your beliefs support the change you want then it happens faster. If the messages are different from your beliefs then it takes longer to change. The messages help delete the current fears before they start to help.

So I am now offering a digital downloads of subliminal sound files that are designed to help build a healthy level of confidence to help cure stage fright, another file that helps build a healthy practice desire and habits, I also have a file that is me giving instructions on breath support and tongue arch and hiss, another file that deals with open aperture and setpoint and one on fear of high notes.

These are simple wav files of about 7-8 megs. Many programs will burn it to CD. You can loop it and play it all day or all night.
The background is rain and wind chimes and the chimes mask the words completely. You will NOT hear the words!

The cost for each file is 10 dollars and is available using paypal. Or you can get all 5 for 30 dollars.

1. stage fright, more confidence (NOT instrument specific)
2. practice habits (NOT instrument specific)
3. breath support, tongue arch and hiss (Trumpet)
4. open aperture, lip setpoint (Trumpet)
5. fear of high notes (Trumpet)

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My trumpet teaching and trumpet books have been mentioned and quoted in dissertations, magazines, other books, websites, and even YouTube videos.

Dear Mr McLaughlin,
“The subliminal (Sleep Learning) Downloads” I received from you a few weeks ago are very helpful to me. I had to play Brahms trio last Friday (I’m playing French horn) and it was the first time since my first BIG stage fright (30 years ago) that I played without fear. I am so interested by everything I read on your site, especially about lip compression; all of this is so helpful for me. So, I thank you very much!

Anne

These are simple WAV files of about 7-8 megs. Many programs will burn it to CD if you want it that way. You can loop it and play it all day or all night.
The background is rain and wind chimes and the chimes mask the words completely. You will NOT hear the words at all!

Subliminal Sleep Learning is passive. It requires no work; all you do is play the CD in the background. I play mine at night while sleeping using a CD/radio/alarm clock.

A real desire to change will help you to change faster. The messages work along with beliefs that you already have. If your beliefs support the change you want then it happens faster. If the messages differ from your beliefs then it takes longer to change. The messages help delete the current fears before they start to help.

So I am now offering digital downloads of subliminal sound files that are designed to help build a healthy level of confidence to help cure stage fright, another file that helps build a healthy practice desire and habits, I also have a file that is me giving instructions on breath support and tongue arch and hiss, another file that deals with open aperture and setpoint and one on fear of high notes.

These are simple WAV files of about 7-8 megs. Many programs will burn it to CD. You can loop it and play it all day or all night.
The background is rain and wind chimes and the chimes mask the words completely. You will NOT hear the words!

The cost for each file is 10 dollars and is available using PayPal. Or you can get all 5 for 30 dollars.

1. stage fright, more confidence (NOT instrument specific)
2. practice habits (NOT instrument specific)
3. breath support, tongue arch and hiss (Trumpet)
4. open aperture, lip setpoint (Trumpet)
5. fear of high notes (Trumpet)

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