Build Your Trumpet Range with These Lip Slurs - (Trumpet Lessons with Adam Meckler)

[@deonejohnson7351]

John Daniels book is fabulous!

[@AdamMeckler]

Yes! Still working out of it regularly!

[@deonejohnson7351]

@@AdamMeckler His pitch bending stuff really works. I’m in Texas, hope all is well. Deone 🎺

[@nicholaschavarria4261]

Really good explanation and demonstration. Also, a really creative way to approach Frink’s exercise! Thanks!

[@TageRolander]

🎉Thank you

[@IndianOutlaw1870]

This was very good.

[@AdamMeckler]

🙌🏼🙌🏼

[@FunnyGA1ex]

I’ve been just playing from high C chromatically down to lower F#. Quieter to louder. Then play F# octaves. Medium - High. Then Low - Medium. Playing with volume when doing that. I do all this at the end of my playing sessions. But yeah, your way seems more effective and more fun. I’m definitely going to start doing that. Thank you!

[@AdamMeckler]

I took some lessons from a guy who had me do two octaves scales that way, too. Dig it!

[@djuneconley5569]

above my range but have been practice low c to e c to g g to b just playing around note I can do . thank you video gives me inspiration

[@AdamMeckler]

That’s the right idea. Adjust the exercise to fit your range and slowly progress!

[@djuneconley5569]

Thank you Adam! I have been hitting high C much better now. And playing some of those songs Oh When The Saints etc. You have helped me so much! Keep the videos coming!

[@AdamMeckler]

Great to hear! Had to take a few weeks off from the regular videos, but I've got more coming!

[@chew_tunes]

nice! adding these to my routine man, thanks!

[@AdamMeckler]

Yeah man, glad you dig it!

[@da11king]

Love the new exercises! I am going to apply them in my daily routine ... By the way you are very flexible and controlled . and no cracks at all in your playing

[@AdamMeckler]

Thank you! 🙏🏼 🙏🏼

[@Yoshinori76]

Hey Adam! Gonna have to buy another book! One of my favorite range building exercises helps retrain the brain. Check out Airflow Music channel and he does this "flexando" zipper lip slur, focusing on breath support and air compression but he moves through the partials, not skips them. I think the reason is because sometimes when you're skipping partials, you are over moving the embouchure and this ensures that you are getting as efficient as possible. I tend to over tighten everything when playing up there. This helps keep me relaxed

[@AdamMeckler]

Cool! Yes, in my mind, doing the larger interval slurs should come after you've mastered the "rips" - and standard slurs. I do those rips all the time as well, hitting each partial. Dr. David Baldwin's book Lips of Steel has those zipper slurs in it. Very cool. Like a french horn player! We have to practice these large interval slurs though. You'll encounter slurs of an octave or more in music pretty frequently. There are a couple octave slurs in the Charlier book. 2 and 6 both have them, I think.

[@HarrisTrevorJ]

Ever gonna complete " the way up"????

[@AdamMeckler]

Haaaaa man....Honestly the original files to that arrangement were lost on a hard drive crash. I think that project will have to live in infamy now...

[@josephjoreljean1376]

It's famous!!!!

[@TageRolander]

Who´s playing at the end of thelesson?

[@AdamMeckler]

That’s Jana Nyberg (me on trumpet) - song is called Set On You and is on all streaming platforms!

[@1fistaszek1]

Ok, cool video, but... 1st of all, try "Modern Flexibilities" by Scott Belck, it;s cool book, especially for intermediate or advanced player. It's full of pretty crazy exercises. 2nd: (about bending) There is no limit of the notes that you can "bend". If you practise that a lot, you can play the hole scale or even further, without pressing any valves. The key to bending like so, is to maintain the same distance between your lips, while using position of your tounge + proper airflow. I've been full-time trumpet pplayer for almost 20 years, working in phils and operas, also doing some chamber and recording stuff.

[@AdamMeckler]

Hey Stach, thanks for chiming in! Yeah, no argument here. This video was meant to specifically cover certain aspects of bending. Trust me, if I could play chromatically the entire range of the horn with no valves I def would have done it on video. ha! Legend has it that Miles Davis' teacher in St Louis could do that. But...I can't! Maybe you could make that vid on your channel!

[@pauldavies9360]

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[@IndianOutlaw1870]

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