Lead Trumpet Players Love This Exercise

Cat Anderson did it. You could, too. The 20 minute G is a long tone exercise focusing on soft tones, sub tones, and tone manipulation. It is the yin to the yang of playing loud and high. You want to get back to even after a really hard day of playing? Feeling swollen and tight in the chops? I discuss a series of things you can do to help counteract these totally normal feelings trumpet players deal with regularly.
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[@CornetBlues]

I never thought about stretching my face out like that before 😮 Going to start working on all this fabulous advice 🎺🎶🎺 Thank You 🙏🏻

[@AdamMeckler]

Yes! Stretches have been a game-changer for me. Good luck!

[@zjick]

I’m doing a slightly different version, the 18x30: I play long soft notes during 30s each, from C in the staff to F# below staff, spaced with 30s without playing. Total of 18 minutes. It helps me with my sound and my air (at the beginning 30s on one breath was difficult).

[@adityatyagi4009]

Pretty cool lesson. I'm going to give this a try. I think mastering vert skateboarding and the trumpet are the two most difficult things in the world. :D Thanks!

[@iDannyism]

Awesome that you're back Adam. I really like your presentation and I'm sure once you start uploading more regularly, people will come. Your videos have always been very approachable, as you seem to be, and we're really missing that on KZbin especially when it relates directly to Trumpet. Hope to see more. Frequency and regularity are really key here on KZbin.

[@AdamMeckler]

Hey thank you! It's really nice to see comments like these. I appreciate you taking the time to say something nice. Working on another one now. I'll keep them coming. Thanks for watching!

[@spartacusjonesmusic]

It was helpful to watch you play the 20G. Gave me some good ideas. Thanks.

[@AdamMeckler]

Eyyy glad to hear that!

[@anthonycarbonaro7890]

Very nice 👍

[@shamslife9182]

You deserve ❤all the Success

[@AdamMeckler]

Oh hey thanks!

[@prestonbane4176]

greatvid! please reduce the ad frequency on your videos it's torturous 😖😝🙏

[@AdamMeckler]

Thanks! Ha…noted. I can definitely turn off in-video ads for vids like this - but if it makes you feel better, I make more from this than all of my records streaming combined. Which helps me keep making videos!

[@rafiuskidimoura219]

Make sense do this exercise with a practice mute? congrats for the material man! It has been nice to meet the chanel!

[@AdamMeckler]

The practice mute adds so much resistance that once you take the mute off, what you were practicing won't match what you do with the mute out. I'm not a huge fan of practice mutes in general, but sometimes you have to use them and that's okay!

[@samwelokou4505]

Hi Adam . I'm here and would love to learn trumpet.

[@AdamMeckler]

Hey Samwel! I have lots more videos on how to play the trumpet here: kzbin.info/aero/PL4Q6gFlCnUoKgWGO_WvLNKASCnWPgKAZ3 More soon!

[@gregorysloat4258]

Check out “El Gato” with the Duke Ellington band where Cat Anderson hits a Triple High C, and you can just barely hear someone in the trumpet section exclaim, “Oh SHIT!” 🤣

[@AdamMeckler]

Hell yeah!!! 🔥🔥🎺🎺

[@michaelagbolan8943]

Is it advisable to do 20mins soft G everyday ?...like adding it to the normal routine

[@AdamMeckler]

I wouldn't. I'm not much of a "same thing every day" routine kind of person. I probably do this one per week, but I could see someone doing it multiple days in a row, or working it in every other practice session. Good luck!

[@brbr8691]

Hello. Merci beaucoup ! Le bonjour de France

[@AdamMeckler]

Bonjour! Thanks for watching!

[@siegfriedwifling907]

Im sorry this is no whisper G …. ( closed teeth) this is a normal piano G which can do more harm than good.. if you feel stiff ore something like that after a hard gig.. Should be constructive critic.😎

[@AdamMeckler]

Yes, this isn't the closed teeth method. I find that way completely impossible to produce sound. But I have to disagree that whisper tone Gs will do more harm than good. And no, this isn't just a normal piano G. A piano G is a tone that can easily be held without issue. A whisper G is much softer than that. As long as the person executing what I'm saying is staying relaxed, there will not be stiffness issues. Much the opposite, in my experience.

[@fredrikoscar4741]

Great channel! Thanks! I had he same thought. I always try to catch that VERY soft G that is just in the "beginning" of a real G, before the vibration starts. The tone i still just trying... It´s quite an exercise in keeping an even air flow. And it sounds just like.....a whisper..

[@atsushikanno6903]

歯を閉じずにウィスパーG 20分、朝と晩に10年以上やっています。音の始まりの、お化けのようなものを掴み、キープします。それによりダイナミクスが良くなりました。 歯を閉じる方法に興味がありますが、アンブシュアが壊れそうで、まだ試していません。

[@geminimusicstudios9197]

Teeth together