5 Tips on How To Master Trumpet Embouchure

[@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 🎺.

[@jezellekingston3945]

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

[@FiuranBand]

Great stuff Chris 👍 Thank you.

[@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 .

[@directcurrent5751]

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

[@trevorpope1913]

Thank you for this video, excellent advice and tips.

[@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

[@toniecy]

Great!

[@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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[@bobbidouble3501]

You begin with explaining why flexibility is the key but you have not defined or explained what flexibility is in this context.

[@ChrisDavisTrumpet]

@@bobbidouble3501 lip bends and slurs

[@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.

[@bobbidouble3501]

I see your point. Different people require different approaches. While learning techniques we can use practice that has some melodic elements so that it is not so boring for those people who need some fun. I wonder how many people have dropped interest in music altogether due to lack of fun in the beginning stages. I am a retired teacher and I know that there are many divergent ways of learning. Find a teacher that works with you or just glean information and apply it to your own practice. Keep the music in your life.

[@kenality5630]

You need to learn how to play the instrument before you can pay it properly

[@victorumrikhin9954]

Too complicated...