5 Tips on How To Master Trumpet Embouchure

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If you have any serious goals for your trumpet playing then you will need a balanced embouchure.
Learn how to master trumpet embouchure in this video. Chris thoroughly goes over 5 tips that can help strengthen the trumpet embouchure. These tips are also great for improving flexibility on trumpet.
This is a trumpet masterclass focused on developing the trumpet embouchure and overall playing ability for all trumpet players. Chris Davis emphasizes keeping the horn to your mouth often, practicing flexibility exercises, incorporating isometrics like the Caruso method, adding pedal tones, and using 'muscle confusion' by rotating between practice routines. Action items include choosing one new embouchure-building technique to try for a month.
Chapters
Embouchure Tips for Beginner and Comeback Players
For new players, focus on keeping the horn to your mouth frequently in short 5-10 minute sessions, increasing over time. Practice long tones and chromatic scales to develop muscles and coordination. Recommended method book: Carl Gordon's 'Physical Approach to Trumpet Playing'.
Master Key of Flexibility
Flexibility is critical for all aspects of playing including endurance, range and sound production. Slurs and lip bends manipulate fine movements of the tongue and air speed to control notes. Books like Irons, Schlossberg, Bylands and Walter Smith cover flexibility.
Isometrics and the Caruso Method
Carmine Caruso's calisthenics method builds strength through exercises where the mouthpiece stays placed on the lips. Following specific rules allows faster development by reducing movements. It supplements normal routines rather than replacing them.
Adding Pedal Tones
Practicing pedal tones relaxes facial tension and promotes endurance by teaching the body to play more relaxed. Adding them at the end of slurs is an easy way to incorporate them.
Muscle Confusion Through Routine Rotation
Similar to plateau-breaking techniques in weight training, rotating between a few different practice routines every 3-6 weeks continually challenges the muscles and embouchure to spur development.
Action Items
Choose at least one new embouchure-building technique to try for a month, such as flexibility exercises, isometrics, pedal tones or muscle confusion rotation.

[@MrMyCorey]

After close to a decade of not playing, it's really great to find some tips on how to get back into it. Thank you for these videos!

[@ChrisDavisTrumpet]

You’re welcome! It’s my pleasure to serve and welcome back to the trumpet 🎺.

[@directcurrent5751]

Glad I found this channel. Im two months in. You are touching on everything I'm experiencing.

[@FiuranBand]

Great stuff Chris 👍 Thank you.

[@trevorpope1913]

Thank you for this video, excellent advice and tips.

[@jezellekingston3945]

Thank you for helping me so much you know you are the best

[@lenzotrumpet]

Good stuff Chris I have been doing lip bends past week with my routine it helped me because my chops were stiff because of too much pencil exercises.My chops are better now .

[@spartacusjonesmusic]

Very cool. I dig this. Thanks!

[@ChrisDavisTrumpet]

You’re welcome!

[@jameswaters5888]

Thanks again Chris for more valuable info I use while coming back from many years ago. I haven't seen any info concerning a player(like myself) who, while practicing, I produce a lot of saliva, and notes sound like I'm playing under water(girgling); so I drain the spit valves. It seems to be very often. Is this normal? Will it subside after controlling air flow, etc? I'm sure you could help with this. Thanks

[@da11king]

Great masterclass! I watched somewhere on KZbin about a different type of lip bend exercise: Playing false scales, or the wrong fingering. For example, This means playing the E scale with a D scale fingering. What do you think of that????

[@semantic7777]

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[@noswad75]

All of this sounds pretty boring. It seems to become about the music. I've never benefitted a whole lot from a bunch of tedious routines. Ive focused on the music and music has taught me how to play the horn. Maybe thats just me, but i think with trumpet too much emphasis and time is put on all of this technical stuff. You can spend years puffing up all these "flexibilities" and other stuff and never get to the music. Im not going to spend years on lip flexibilites and constant excercises. This video unfortunately to me shows what im talking about with this obsession on this technical stuff. It was supposed to be 5 tips, but the video is almost 40 minutes long. Its too much, if i was a beginner and a teacher threw all this mess at me, I'd walk away. Too technical too many boring tedious excercises. The point is to play music. There's none of that in this. No balnce between the two.

[@blackbeltjones2903]

You're mistaken. Absolute beginners on brass need foundational skills before getting to the music. For us beginners, getting to the music should simply be listening to great players and finding inspiration from them to continue practicing. Brass instruments aren't pick up and play like a guitar or piano is. Since you can pluck a string or hit a key and instantly have good tone, learning simple songs is an immediate possibility. This isn't true of the trumpet in the least. Beginners can potentially spend weeks just learning to comfortably play one single note. I'm on my first week and can't yet play the whole C Major scale, let alone with decent tone. A beginner guitarist can play several scales within a minutes of picking a guitar up. If we start learning songs and more advanced techniques like vibrato before even cementing good embouchure form, that's how we develop bad habits that'll come back to bite us. What I'm gathering from your comment is frustration. Reality is, learning is often boring, tedious and difficult before it becomes fun. That's life.

[@victorumrikhin9954]

Too complicated...