Navigating the Upper Register

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@tonebaseTrumpet 8 ай бұрын

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@ambros470 Ай бұрын

Ryan was a senior at CSULB my first year there. He and Jon Bradley were really influential in my early trumpet studies. Glad to see Ryan doing well.

@brabussi 4 ай бұрын

Really good tip not to go instantly strong in high register but rather build the high notes. Thanks for the advice.

@trammell2004 Ай бұрын

This is very helpful! Thank you! You have a gorgeous tone!

@JRod37 2 ай бұрын

Nice one Ryan! great to hear you play - solid tips, balance (in life and trumpet playing) is key!

@Jenanashake11 8 ай бұрын

Hi there! Thanks so much for this video. Apart from gaining understanding on the higher registry, it is really encouraging to see another trumpet player whose embouchure veers towards the side. I tend to play on the side as well. While i’ve gotten confirmation from trumpet professors that its okay I still wonder about it sometimes since its outside the norm. Thanks so much for showing me its possible to achieve excellence even with this! Wishing you all the best with all your other work :)

@Ryandarke3000 8 ай бұрын

Hi Jena! (I presume? hopefully thats correct) - Thanks for the nice message, feel free to be in touch if you ever need anything. Check out Tomas Valencia from Berlin Phil, that should be all you need to see to know its possible :) - Happy Practice!

@Jenanashake11 8 ай бұрын

@@Ryandarke3000Thank you so much, Mr. Darke! Super appreciate it :) May I ask where I can contact you in order to keep in touch?

@erikandreasbonde551 6 ай бұрын

Hi. You told about the book that you played from...what is the name of that book? Would nice to have🎺🎺

@trumpetbrain7302 2 ай бұрын

Lovely playing and control. What was on his teeth? Camera left, if you pause at the right time there is some kind of yellow rubber or silicone insert covering his canines and pre-molars?

@TrumpetBuzzXC 8 ай бұрын

Great stuff 🎺

@JeremyPhilemon-br8vm 5 ай бұрын

What brand a d type of ur trumpet

@idankoos4156 3 ай бұрын

Im a singer, ALL of your tipps work for the singing voice as well

@brianmorrison7542 6 ай бұрын

Read " A New Approach To Altissimo Trumpet Playing" by John Lynch

@BrassBro-Science-ys7sg 8 ай бұрын

An "air speed"? What exactly are you referring to? I keep hearing that terminology by so many wind musicians. What exactly are they referring to?

@oldbrassman2157 5 ай бұрын

With the trumpet, and actually other wind instruments, the speed your air is travelling determines the pitch; how high or low the note sounds. Slow air speeds render slower vibrations or lower notes. Higher air speed causes higher frequency vibrations unlocking higher notes. Whereas the amount of air you use, by modifying your embouchure (allowing more or less air to pass through), determines the dynamics, or how "loud" the note will be. Hope this helps.

@BrassBro-Science-ys7sg 5 ай бұрын

@oldbrassman2157 Air speed WHERE? It doesn't help because it's not true. That's all just a popular construct that brass players hear and repeat. The vibration state of the embouchure controls the frequency. That is the firmness and how much is allowed to participate in movement. The muscles around the lips control that state. Dynamics is controlled by air power. Primarily by varying the air pressure. ( flow and flow velocity varies as well) Air velocity through an aperture varies with the pressure. Therefore, if air " speed" controls pitch, then playing dynamics on a constant pitch is impossible. Vibrations are not "slow/fast. "Speed" is not frequency . Speed, fast, slow, are velocity terms. That is, distance/time. Pitch is frequency, which is cycles per time. Distance is irrelevant.

@oldbrassman2157 5 ай бұрын

@@BrassBro-Science-ys7sg Sorry for any confusion. I'll admit it's not the easiest thing to visualize. So let's try this, without using your horn. With your lips slightly open take a decent breath, then just let some air out. Don't attempt to bring your lips very close in an attempt to vibrate them. Just let some air easily pass through. Your tongue should just be relaxed; resting low in your mouth. Now take another breath and this time just raise your tongue up a bit with the front tip resting against the base of your top teeth. Finally let some air through and while doing this tighten the tip of your tongue so that it's almost impossible to release any air. Then just back it off a tiny bit, like you are trying to make a "hissing" sound. With the air having to pass over your tongue and trying to escape this very tight opening you've made, it is doing so under significant pressure. The "hiss" you've created is air travelling at a much higher velocity than the air you earlier just let through your lips with no tongue pressure involved. A very talented trumpeter, Charlie Porter, made some great instruction videos you should look up on KZbin. I believe in one of them he referred to a garden hose to illustrate this "faster air" principle. Water coming out of a fully open hose nozzle might just travel a couple of feet. But place your thumb over the nozzle almost completely blocking the opening and the water shoots out a lot farther (and faster)... without touching the on/off valve. Check out his video "The Three Compressions" which describes different areas of your body that are involved with increasing the velocity of your air flow. A lot of stuff on the trumpet has to be learned from personal experimentation. Everybody's anatomy is a bit different. Anyway, I'm in my seventies and just got back to playing trumpet again a few years ago... after about a 58-year layoff, so all this typing has worn me out a bit and I might need to take a nap. I wish you well in your musical journey!

@BrassBro-Science-ys7sg 5 ай бұрын

@oldbrassman2157 You (and Porter) make some erroneous assumptions based on misunderstood air mechanics. Narrowing the flow path ANYWHERE before the lip aperture adds flow resistance and reduces the air pressure that bears on the lip aperture. It does not "compress" the air. The "garden hose " analogy does not apply. There are not 3 compressions. There is one, and it is the lung pressure. The tongue or aperture does not further "compress" the air to be more than lung air pressure.

@JVFBryant 4 ай бұрын

@@BrassBro-Science-ys7sg I'm a new-bee player. Based upon what you are saying, what would be the proper way to begin to approach high notes? For example, are the abdominals/diaphragm involved, or is it strictly how you form the embouchure & aperture? Thanks.

@ronrobbins2737 8 ай бұрын

Easy to say that it's not about strength, bro! Try teaching this exercise to any beginning student, with or without your C trumpet, and see how far they get. Pretty sure most high-note players have some genetic advantage, plus lots and lots of embouchure/breath training under their belts. It's like some elite baseball slugger giving a hitting lesson and telling you just "keep your eye on the ball" LOL.

@arthurkeeling8986 8 ай бұрын

Hi RonRobbins! I think technically speaking ANYTHING we do requires muscle engagement, which is what you’re talking about. However the main point Ryan Darke is explaining is not to brute force press the trumpet against your lips as you’ll fatigue way sooner than if you learned more effective technique with air engagement using your diaphragm. It sounds like you didn’t even watch the video as he is mentioning you don’t need the strength or “genetic advantage” you mention to play high. If you REALLY want to learn how to play EFFORTLESSLY as he’s talking about I recommend listening to more of Ryan’s playing, watching him as well as picking you’re favorites and listening and watching how they play! ( my range really grew from studying James Morrison, Adam Rapa, Wayne Bergeron, Rob Schaer, Rob Frear, Tom Hooten and Ryan Darke ) there are SO many people with different embouchures and tones and all of them have built this technique to unlock this “effortless” playing. Lmk what you think :)

@pootdoot 8 ай бұрын

me when i make no sense

@ronrobbins2737 8 ай бұрын

@@arthurkeeling8986 many many many years ago when I was a TRUMPET major in college John Clyman was my wonderful private instructor, and all of us at Cal State Northridge were studying either with him or Claude Gordon at the time. All were doing the same major arpeggio “pyramids” followed by pedal tones -Very tedious, and we all made slow steady progress. Never a mention of arching the tongue or anything else theoretical. other than common sense, there’s no magic bullet or special knowledge that’s going to work any miracles. it may be musical, but it’s still physical training playing the trumpet -not that different than learning to hit a baseball well/throw a strike/master gymnastics, or get some black belt in martial arts.

@da11king 8 ай бұрын

@@ronrobbins2737 do you arch your tongue to play high? This concept is still foreign to me.

@ronrobbins2737 8 ай бұрын

@@da11king I do try, and it's supposed to be SO important according to lots of great high-note players. I practice it by just whistling and feeling the tongue naturally arch upward to create higher notes. Not convinced it's really that important LOL. My famous teacher back in the day never even mentioned it!