The Best Ways to Practice Long Tones on Trumpet

[@paulmullins4676]

Transendental meditation where the mantra is your trumpet tone… brilliant!

[@pabloh5896]

Great advice Bob! Another way to avoid the boredom is to play along with music. Just find the home key of a song in any style and play that note for the duration of the song. Then pick a different song in a different key and play that note or a chord tone that fits.

[@RidgewoodSchoolofMusic]

Good idea! You could also follow the voice leading through a chord progression you're working on as long as the line doesn't become too strenuous.

[@Enderrock424]

i remember saying that i did this to my band director in middle school and he yelled at me lol. obviously he didn’t know what he was talking about cause i still do it to this day, and it’s really good at being less boring, honing in your tuning and focusing on your tone and blending. Really am unsure why he ever told me not to do that, maybe cause i was an easily distracted middle schooler but me playing my sax and my doing anything else were like two whole different people

[@nikhessman6098]

Buddy I've got adhd as well, and I'll tell ya I feel seen after that bit you did toward the end. Looking forward to trying to add long tones to my meditation rotation!

[@one-handstrumman4616]

My first trumpet arrives next week. Thanks for sharing this as I step into this new instrument

[@calebsaylor8904]

Did you get your trumpet? How's it going? You enjoying it? :)

[@one-handstrumman4616]

@@calebsaylor8904 I got it. Been practicing my embouchure and buzzing while building my breath back up. I will do a video soon on my progress

[@tomrees4812]

Unless I’m mistaken I have a practice cd produced by Walter White which is a backing track for 30 minutes playing on the staff G softly keeping the mouthpiece on the lips the whole time, nose breathing.

[@aloedg3191]

I do love walter whites product

[@elliotmcconnell5449]

Walter White is THE MAN. Such a great player

[@gregorysloat4258]

What a great video. The bit at the end had me in stitches because that’s exactly what your mind does when you’re supposed to be concentrating. I thought, though, that long tunes are supposed to take you through all seven steps of your fingering (so, in this case, from G in the staff down to C#). I HAVE heard about playing G in the staff for 20 minutes, and that it’s supposed to give good results, but that’s a long grind. I think you’d be going bonkers after five minutes.

[@kevinelliott5823]

Just what I needed, thanks for the tips and demo.

[@chaseryder]

You're the best Bob! Love the fact that you bring meditation into long tone practice. I regularly practice meditation, I am excited to use this as another method of getting my meditation in. -- 13:25 haha

[@mathieupe666]

You most certainly are way ahead of the concurrence in trumpet tube. Very good content. Thanks.

[@donaldmacmillan3198]

Great video Bob! 👍🎺. I’ll certainly do more long tones in the manner that you’ve described …. Their beauty is in their simplicity, fundamental to trumpet playing 👍. Admittedly, when I clocked your long tone video, while I was enjoying your most recent 3 stages to effective practice regime video, I expected your long tone video to be more along the lines of Vincent Cichowicz’s long tone studies! 😜. Do you work on those? Anyway, I really like what you’re suggesting. Many thanks again Bob! And happy new year from Scotland! Best regards, Donald 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🎺👍

[@dizzylee7215]

Thanks Bob. You made me chuckle. I will be getting back to my long tones very soon 😂

[@anthonycarbonaro7890]

Very excellent presentation!! Thank You 🙏

[@spartacusjonesmusic]

This was very useful. Thanks!

[@peterdodson4685]

LOL, the wife part was hilarious.

[@davidhurd3099]

works for me. Thx.

[@fabiomarinhomusic]

Yeah

[@gilbertosandino8324]

Super!💥

[@JVFBryant]

Hello Bob. Going through all your videos. Great stuff. (I just sent for your new book). Question though. When you set your embrochure, I see the classic MMM. With that however, are you firming your corners, rolling your lips in very, very slightly in saying MMMM, & then moving your corners slightly to the center for your initial embrochure set up? Thanks!

[@gregorysloat4258]

Thanks for a great video. I misunderstood what long tone practice was. I’ve been starting (for example) on G in the staff, and then playing “long tones” for about 30 seconds each, down chromatically, until I reached low F#. The I’d start on (third space) C in the staff and do the same thing back down to G in the staff, and then I’d be done. I didn’t know ypu played the same note for the whole time (I had heard of the old practice of playing G in the staff for 20 minutes, but after about 5 minutes I started going bonkers 🤣). I’m going to try this and commit to 5 minutes to start, and work my way up to 10 minutes. Thanks, again.

[@pierantoniopaulon3364]

Very useful, thanks a lot. Do you suggest the use of tuner to check the pitch or it's better to train one's ear without it ?

[@RidgewoodSchoolofMusic]

Wouldn't hurt to use a tuner if it helps, but mostly what you're listening for is fluctuation in pitch, which you can probably hear with or without it.

[@maximelogier1276]

Hey Bob! I feel really uncomfortable with my air support and when i plqy long tones (not that long actually) my sound is shaking. Any advice?

[@jjschm20]

Would it defeat the purpose to play long tones over multiple notes over 10 minutes? I usually play long tone scales, maybe like 20-30 seconds every note instead of playing a single note the whole time.

[@jbgood37]

should we only play c or g or should we spent a session on higher notes to solidify them?

[@ryanchester3370]

Should I do this with a lead mouthpiece or just a normal 7c

[@100comedy]

👍

[@cualquierwea1]

Great videos Bob, thank you for your lesson and the effort you put into your videos! Just starting out on a plastic trumpet

[@cmorales5]

Like 700…. That’s something!

[@danielf7446]

I played at the same time, I thought I was in Tibet 😊😊

[@michaelk.clifford8840]

Mic Gillette told me that is all he ever did

[@poopydoopy2000]

Jesse, I have band practice at 2:30. We don’t have time to cook