Schlossberg Trumpet Routine A (playing trade-off version)

Join a practice session trade-off with Betsy Bright.
This is a routine of Schlossberg exercises as described in one of Chris Gekker's awesome articles about summer practicing.

[@davidjunior7586]

Thank you ❤

[@markwhite3958]

Great sound, tone, great playing!!!

[@betsybright]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@marcusdoman4779]

Thank you very much for your Schlossberg routines. They are really helpful & instructive. The technique of repeating your phrase is also a good auditive reference .

[@betsybright]

Thanks for listening to these, Marcus! I always like practicing with another person too...even if they're not physically in the room! Happy practicing :-)

[@patricknorris8355]

This is amazing! Thank you

[@betsybright]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@leifarntzen2533]

Great video exercises! Thank you.

[@sarahilecter426]

Please continue making your videos,I love them ,they are really helpfully . thank you so much!!🥺❤️

[@betsybright]

Thanks so much for listening, Sarahi! I've gotten sidetracked with some other projects in the past couple of months, but I hope to post some more practice trade-off videos soon. Thanks for practicing with me :-)

[@nrcg2317]

Great session!

[@milesmaguire3409]

Thank you for these videos Betsy, I wish I’d found them sooner. They’re really useful and done in such a practical way (fabulous playing too!).

[@betsybright]

Thanks for listening, Miles!

[@slidegrease]

Thank you very much for this warm up. I've been playing for over 60 years, so the same old, while still helpful, gets a little, well, gets a little old.

[@betsybright]

Thanks so much for listening!

[@georgemelitsis2607]

Greatly appreciated. Thank you.

[@betsybright]

Thanks for listening, George!

[@nicolasroqe]

ok Betsy could follow just till #72 today! 😅😂 Thank you so much!! I really enjoy these videos and to be able to play after you and the notes you make for every exercise! Have a great week!!

[@betsybright]

Thanks for joining me, Nico! Happy practicing :-)

[@MikeM91320]

Great video. Always looking for other good excercise options and this looks like a really good challenge for me.

[@betsybright]

Thanks for checking it out, Michael!

[@atsushikanno6903]

Thank you. I practice everyday with this video.

[@betsybright]

So glad it's helpful, Atsushi! Thanks for practicing with me 😀

[@josemecking8594]

Very good sound and articulation. Thanks for sharing!

[@betsybright]

Thanks for checking it out!

[@ogplayaposta]

These videos are great and super helpful. Your warmup too. Thanks so much! If you ever decided to do videos of the Clarke’s as described in that Gekker article ( or however you recommend doing them) I’d be excited about that too. Just putting that out there. Thanks again

[@betsybright]

Thanks Rafa - great idea! I'll add that to the list of project ideas for the future.

[@ogplayaposta]

@@betsybright awesome! Looking forward to it

[@simonlagos9976]

Gran ayuda gracias, lindo sonido 📖🎺🇨🇱

[@betsybright]

Thank you for listening!

[@cataldobarberi-didatticade6277]

Great!!!

[@betsybright]

Thank you for listening!

[@thamimbasha4140]

Thanks Madame

[@betsybright]

Thanks for listening!

[@SmeeUncleJoe]

Very nice playing even if it's a practice exercise. On the Introductory Notes Schlossberg directs the student to play just their mpc and successive C's. gosh, I don't have that much control on an MPC. Wish someone would do a video on just the MPC drills. You're hired :>)

[@betsybright]

:-) Thanks so much for listening, Joe! As for control on the mouthpiece, try to make it less about your lips vibrating, and more about feeling a "sigh" where the air just leans into the resistance point of the mouthpiece. A great tactic that helps is to blow into the other end of the mpc (like a straw) to feel where the lean of the air is. Then flip it around and imagine that you're basically doing the same thing. Let the buzz be an afterthought and just focus on leaning that sigh forward. Good luck, and happy practicing!

[@mor2bz]

good teacher thanks the metronome is not a gig annoyance as it is in others' videos.

[@betsybright]

Thanks for checking it out, David!

[@music-collective]

Great work, Betsy. I love your sound. What mouthpiece do you play?

[@betsybright]

Thanks for listening! I play a Bach 3C

[@simonlagos9976]

Y cuando más estudios 🤗📖🎺🇨🇱!!!!!!!

[@betsybright]

Hi Simon! Hopefully soon...I've been busy with other projects. But I'm hoping to make a few Clarke or Arban videos sometime soon! Thanks so much for listening, and for your kind comments. Happy practicing, Simon!

[@gregorysloat4258]

OK, I know I’m going to get a lot of criticism for saying this, and it’s a personal thing with me, but it drives me nuts when I see trumpet players (even when they sound good, like here) playing and holding their horn like it’s a clarinet. Who is teaching this way? Your bell isn’t supposed to be pointing at the floor. Look at Doc, Maynard, Arturo Sandoval, Wayne Bergeron, Eric Miyashiro, Louis Dowdeswell, Charlie Porter, Bobby Spellman, Bill Chase, Bobby Shew, Mark Zauss, and on and on and on. They all have their bells up and out. If you have an overbite you can learn to line up your top and bottom teeth so that they meet on the same plane when you form your embouchure. It will make a more stable support for your mouthpiece, aid your endurance, and make it easier to keep pressure on your top lip at a minimum. In Band, our directors used to “encourage” us to get our bells up and out from behind the music stand, even in a community band I played in as an adult, which was directed by an individual who was also a very accomplished trumpet player. For some reason I see this more in classical players. The trumpet is an “announcement” instrument. It’s kind it hard to announce yourself if your trumpet is pointed at the floor. Look at any big band trumpet section and observe their posture and where their horns are pointed. Thank you.

[@patricknorris8355]

Here comes the blowback! I’ve had a few teachers who actually taught that way, (and also band directors who like the bell up and out of the stand). You can at least appreciate the reasoning: the angle of the mouthpiece on the lips is a fundamental factor to what’s going on mechanically. If you push the bell up beyond what is physically natural and efficient for your body, it will have some weird and unwanted effects on your posture. Neck straining up, head tilted back to compensate, for example. I like your point about the lower jaw coming forward. Doing that could help mitigate the negative effects of a head tilt. Probably some kind of balance between the two is what you want, because it’s true there are times when you kind of need the bell higher up. But if you have a big overbite and it’s going to screw up your natural balance efficiency and safe posture, is it worth it?

[@CORSODITROMBA]

Hello Gregory, I believe that what teachers teach is to play in an effortless way, achieving the best sound possible, considering the posture of a student. And because every student is different, so we will have a lot of different trumpet positions. Look at Аdam Rapa.. He is the perfect example of a trumpet player who has a great posture by himself and he doesn't need to readjust the trumpet position. So, if you have a bad posture you will of course have to bend your neck in order to open up your throat. But if your posture is fine as it is, you don't really need to change your "every day" posture when you play the trumpet. Summarising.. just to let you understand better: look at her when she is not playing and when she plays.. Can you notice that she is not changing her posture? It means she is perfectly aligned !

[@robertomoccia8305]

Great sound and flexibility 🎉❤

[@betsybright]

Thanks so much!