Three Principles of Vibration by Charlie Porter

[@azdronepix8692]

Charlie, I’m a “comeback” player who took a 40 yr break. I’ve only been back for 2 weeks and was struggling to buzz my lips correctly even after watching your embochure forming video. This video showed me what I have never been told about holding the lips taught against the teeth. My buzzing immediately improved 100%! I had been relying on my mouthpiece to make this happen but I can see this was really a “dead-end”. Thanks so much and keep them coming! By the way, love your playing but it’s a little distracting playing in the background, at least for me.

[@savagecapitalist]

This is the Prize.

[@general5104]

Yea, for me too. I never liked to hear music playing in tge background behind someone preaching or praying. I think it takes something away from the reverance of it.

[@cadenchase3112]

this is the best account for teaching trumpet to any range of experience that i’ve ever seen, I just picked up my cornet after four years (stopped in 8th grade band, now a senior onto college). thank you so much.

[@nat3058]

The legend is back!!!! Mr.Porter, ur videos are amazing and helped me alot as a trumpet player. Thank u for ur hard work and dedication in putting out logical and helpful information. Thank u sir.

[@td1138]

Absolutely brilliant instruction, Charlie! It’s one thing to get the concept across as well as you did, but it’s a whole other level to be able to get the student to feel what you were describing. Your demonstration with the 4 fingers got me to feel exactly what a proper embouchure is like. Genius! You are certainly a gifted teacher as well as an amazing performer. Thanks for a great lesson!

[@BarmaEmbouchure]

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[@eugenetswong]

Thanks Charlie! I tried the 3 principles, and it worked right away! 1) Do you have a tutorial on how to care for the lips? Mine usually feel hard and dry. 2) If I wrote out chapter markings for you to copy and paste into your description, then would you do it? It would be free. It seems that your current chapters have been automatically generated by KZbin.

[@dennispalmer8622]

Again, just learning, thank you so much!

[@freddiedunn6819]

This is one of the most clear and accurate embouchure lessons I've seen! Watching it at 5:00 am and can't wait to apply it to my horn at a more decent hour! Love your playing and your teaching. I have both recordings and will be gifting them to friends and family at birthdays, Christmas etc. Best in all your endeavors!

[@mcOscarmann]

i wish i could have beggining with a teacher like you. Amazing.

[@carloscolipi5653]

Hi Charlie , i just saw your video and I got to tell you this is an amazing explanation about vibration of the lips. I can buzz my lips now . Thanks a lot

[@anthonybryant5668]

Wow! this trumpet lesson is super cool.

[@jesusclemente8354]

Great instructor. wish i had a teacher like Charlie 40 years ago when i first started the trumpet. Charlie brought me out of the darkness and into the light of trumpet playing.

[@rogerio6826]

fantastic explanation 👏🏻👏🏻💪🏻🎼🎹

[@mikecoco3250]

Well done, Charlie. Another superb educational and insightful video. Your commitment to unselfishly serving your gift to others is commendable!

[@mamathlemat8228]

Getting to feel a proper embouchure with that easy 4-finger-technique will help me so much in my trumpet studies. I'm so grateful I've found your channel. What a creative way to teach this. I wish you well.

[@richardnino2799]

Excelente 👌, muchas gracias por compartir.

[@flavorchris4721]

Damn!!!! The last exercise open up my mind. I wanna cry, I was desperate 😢 ❤

[@SteffenThole]

Brilliant video! Very comprehensive theory (easy to understand through the little examples) in the first 20-ish minutes, and that little exercise in the last few minutes is absolute gold.

[@AlexUtreras]

That profile shot at minute 14:04 is the key, there it was very clear how to do the position. Thank you very much for all your videos! I'm just starting out in this world of trumpet and it has been great to see each of your videos.

[@ellman10]

Thank you for your contributions Charlie! The music in the background is awesome btw.

[@zarenaallan5348]

I love the way you talk and explain things, it's my 7th week playing trumpet and I am learning such a lot from your videos, THANK YOU so much.

[@hughsmith4942]

Approaching embouchure mechanics like a physics prof is brilliant, easy to understand and has translated into better playing by me. Amazing

[@Blackdesperado91]

I picked up the trumpet as my first ever musical instrument at 28 yrs old! 1.5 months so far; and a life time to go. This instructional video and the extended Embouchure vid on your channel has been a godsend. -Currently working on getting that C Scale consistently.

[@lenzotrumpet]

Thank you Charlie for this new video.It explained so much so well.When I was taking Skype lessons from you taught me how to form emboucher , how to set up using a visualizer , how small or how big the aperture should be .I have been doing this since 2013 from when I took lessons from you.My only problem is getting up there with higher notes .I can get as high as C above ledger but If. I have to play say A above ledger in a piece of music I still have some trouble .So I guess I need to do the straight line approach to keep the notes connected,because I still have the bad habit of changing my setting...btw.Its great to see you back on You tube man!

[@JoeyRetro]

Dude, Charlie! Hands down the best video out there in theory, method and practice on how to mouth buzz. I didn't think it would be possible for me, but you proved me wrong. Thank you for posting. 👍❤️

[@flamenfloralis]

Many thanks for focusing on how, under proper conditions of tension , space, and applied strenght, a flappy thing can produce a sound ! Lips, are naturally soft. How to make them properly vibrating? The explanation given here is brilliant, efficient and useful.

[@skrame01]

The forced vibration frequency of a distributed mass system is determined by the distribution of elasticity (stiffness) within the system, the distribution of mass within the system participating in the vibration, the distribution of internal dampening, as well as the stiffness at the boundary connections of the system.

[@stevelangdon1969]

Thanks Charlie, another very nice video.. you have this great knack to create the feel that it is just you and me down the pub (or the coffee place!) chatting trumpet talk.. you're taking the time, explaining very clearly but at no point getting into this patronising teacher mode style that you see a lot on these trumpet master class videos that you see posted. Thanks a lot for the help and stay safe in these tough times.. cheers steve

[@301Alexhorn]

Great explanation for all brass players!

[@guillaumeosborn7488]

Hello Charlie, I have played trumpet for many years, and I just wanted to say that I appreciate the fact that you really attempt to analyze important matters affecting the fundamentals of creating the sound in the most efficient manner. Plus, if that is you playing trumpet in the background of your KZbin videos, you sound great! Tell us more about your performance recordings you have done. Thanks in advance!

[@bobbyricelatinjazzbigband]

You know, it only takes thirty seconds of research to ascertain that information... are you really that lazy?

[@elymattos1084]

That's and impressive approach to teach embochure! Really good! Congrats and thank you for sharing!

[@alancobbett4536]

Great Stuff

[@vallewabbel9690]

Enlightening video

[@jessalvo6375]

Thanks Charlie for your effort to teach well. It took a while because of your impromptu style but you did convey what were essential. I’m a believer now and grateful.

[@NiiAyi73]

Wow! thank you very much sir . I'm a beginner and I find the lip buzz very difficult because I always do lip to lip But thanks to you I have learnt something great but easy 👍👍👍👍

[@deanmcneill3696]

Great information Charlie. Thanks so much for this insightful educational video.

[@CK-km9rj]

Watched entire video...thank you! Jaw opens to create airway opening. Thanks

[@reggieupshaw3776]

Mr Porter; I've never even heard of you until I stumbled on this link. I don't play; I sing jazz; but Bro you got me tooting on a blade of grass. Thoroughly enjoyed the lesson; and I dig this background track even more! Buying album immediately! ... and maybe a used trumpet. 8-)

[@captainchristmas]

Thanks Charlie. Been digging your stuff for years.! 🙏

[@general5104]

Thank you for explaining apiture at 13:10 & at 19:35 & 20:15 & 20:36. Things that are a guarded secret, up till now. I am having trouble buzzing my lips for my bugle & trombone.

[@Kevin-vo2jd]

Thank you very much, this is extremely helpful 👌

[@jamesburnett7085]

Charlie Porter is my favorite trumpeter. I'm hooked on that big, fat, dark tone that sounds like liquid gold poured down from the gates of heaven. Check him out. He is a national treasure.

[@jeremyrhoads6899]

And your albums are fantastic.

[@Lioslaith]

Thank you for that SIDE VIEW! It was the missing puzzle piece that I needed. 😁

[@lucatoldo8888]

Thankyou so much !!

[@tonysalvatore2608]

I note that your upper lip has "healed" compared to when i saw you for a lesson your last day in Brooklyn. I would appreciate to learn how you accomplished that. Thanks for your dedication and constant help.

[@escuadrunk2650]

I got my lips to finally buzz thanks to this video 😊 Thank you so much!

[@erezhodara7744]

Another great video with good information. very inspiring especially with your beautiful music on background!

[@GregoryPearsonMusic]

Very useful analogy

[@TRUMPETSIZZLE]

🎺😀👍A very good observation and analogy!

[@SofiaisSunshine]

I was trying to choose between getting a trumpet or picking up a blade of grass... this made the decision easy! Any recommendations about which type of grass I should get?

[@Sclavus]

Hi Chrlie..thank u sooo much for every help..can you one day make video about mouthpiece choice,what is most important to know about these things,..to avoid f.eks "the holy grail safari".? Cheers😍

[@marcelorocha9215]

Fantastic!!! Thanks.

[@pebblebeach8517]

If I could of had Charlie from day #1 who knows how much farther along I’d be now nevertheless I’ve learned so much from his great videos...thx Charlie.

[@d.juneconley7349]

awesome awesome! love the video's of you playing

[@junglesax]

Really fantastic pedagogy. So much gratitude! Charlie I would love to contribute to your finances but i was being asked to supply personal information and it was not clear to me where this information would go. Please let me know how i can contribute without divulging my info to third parties. Thanks !

[@rubycalista]

Thank you, very helpful instruction.

[@sachinpatilsachinpatil7114]

Sir your video's encourage my friends and me thanx

[@antonioramunno5041]

Thanks a lot ❤

[@ivrz]

Brilliant

[@kabikaeli921]

Thanks so my for the tips and my question is do you teach the fundamental music theory for beginners because I have spent 2 yrs without playing. Since the lockdown occured.

[@TawneeLynnMusicServices]

What a great channel! I will add your link to some of my videos for sure!

[@seregaspb_1987]

Thank you!!!

[@BrianJohnstonTrombone]

World class pedagogue

[@BoulDozer13]

Bro, thnx you! I reali get it!!!!!!!!!!

[@robertwerntzsr8642]

Thanx Charlie see you wednesday

[@CK-km9rj]

Also could please you recommend a nice trumpet brand and model for a beginner to invest in?

[@d.juneconley7349]

another great video Thank you Charlie! june

[@santiagosotelo6881]

1:31min there's a camara problem. Charlie check it out. Glad to help

[@maryjane-ie8oj]

감사합니다

[@ligaoage]

Man, i'm for a complete week watching repeatedly those class from Charlie(straigh line approach, three compressions, how to form... literally ALL)trying to understand how to buzz properly still.. Now i thing i'm doing almost everything right but still cant get these suport muscles to work, so i'm feeling like yet forcing my lips and closing apertchure. 4 years playing in the wrong way the trumpet without a good professor, so i cant barely get a E in the horn. Man, this is motherfucking instrument, but i'm gonna get it.

[@максимдухин]

Hi Charlie, your videos are being watched in Russia and in post-Soviet territory. Your videos are recommended by teachers at the Moscow Conservatory. Your videos are recommended at master classes and official seminars. But, there is a problem for students and teachers who do not know the language. I myself am writing this comment via google translator. There are a lot of terms in your videos and watching a few videos with unprofessional translation is very bad. With great respect, my request, if possible, please arrange for a translation into Russian. Anyway, thanks.

[@CharliePorter]

Would you like to help?

[@ValDroby]

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[@ValDroby]

А вот тут на ее канале многие видео Чарли с русскими субтитрами уже.kzbin.info/door/grS0yrvTVnjAWLGdapICng

[@rickyeldido5084]

First I hit “Like” then I watch.

[@martinfierro9734]

Awesome. Have you ever had a student with an "exaggerated" dew-drop shape in the top lip? My tubercle is really pronounced, and makes it really hard to buzz out of the middle. Instead I get a lot of vibration trying to come out of either side of the middle. My "cupid's bow" shape makes two apertures instead of one, and makes lip buzzing seemingly impossible. I cannot get ONE aperture in the center when attempting to lip buzz.

[@marianh4996]

I have this same problem. Did you ever find out how to make it work?

[@CK-km9rj]

Charlie, when playing (buzzing), are the top and bottom teeth kept together? Or do they open when lips are pressed into position? I am so new, the only buzzing I've done is watching two videos this and the scissors and I'm halfway through this one. I just love the sound of trumpet I always have and am thinking of learning.

[@jerryeisner1]

Hi Charlie! When you showed the exercise at the end with the fingers pressing the lips to the teeth, you were pressing the red of your lips tight to the teeth. That kind of mixed me up when you started buzzing your lips to get the sound. If you can comment on that I'd be forever grateful. thanks. Je

[@richardgalos1987]

Is that Tihuana Grass? Just kidding, the grass vibration is a great analogy and I'm making much easier and steadier buzzing sounds thanks to your videos!

[@katerinaursa4855]

My top lip is deep down shape, air just stocked in a middle, should I play on a side? Thank you

[@JohnsonSmithson]

I missed your videos

[@kc8kir]

What if your lips in the center don't flatten out like that even when pulling the sides outward (for example, players with an upper lip cupid's bow)? What are your recommendations for working around that physical limitation? Can you still get a taught enough surface to play without excessive force and with good tone?

[@CharliePorter]

FlightSong38 Yes! The mouthpiece can help even that out when playing, by pulling out a little more of the top lip. As for free buzzing, try to vibrate the part of the lips that touch naturally when your face is just at rest. That way the teardrop part of the lip is not actually factoring into the aperture. Also, playing to the side of the teardrop works great for many players!

[@kc8kir]

@@CharliePorter Thanks for the response. Sounds like you are advocating to play more upstream. I find that I have better tone playing upstream and with the trumpet angled down, and a little offset right, so that makes sense. Are there recommendations on what kind of mouthpieces work best for these issues? Larger? Shallower? Flatter? Playing a 7c currently and wondering what to go to next. I get a good bit of leakage at the edges on higher notes and don't want to develop the habit of pressing in with the mouthpiece. Also, I'm fighting the urge / habit now to not reposition the mouthpiece though as I go from low to high (trying to find how to play fluidly one position).

[@CharliePorter]

FlightSong38 not advocating upstream or downstream. Angle should be determined by the teeth. Any mouthpiece can work, depends on how you use it.

[@neilsouthgate4132]

@@CharliePorter I completely agree. Fantastic teacher, and you waffle as much as I do! I was wondering if you'd ever tried a wedge mouthpiece because the way you teach and themes seem to me to fit with the benefits playing that type of mouthpiece might bring? Have you experimented? Just in case I give the wrong impression to the above poster, a wedge mouthpiece isn't a specific mouthpiece, it can relate to any mouthpiece on the planet, other than it has a variable of the shape and contact of the mouthpiece on the lips.

[@kc8kir]

@@CharliePorter I think I misunderstood your comment about how the mouthpoece would pull out a little more of the top lip. I presumed you meant if you repositioned to have less of the upper lip inside the rim but I am now thinking you meant just the pressure of the mouthpiece. Thanks for the response. I suppose it is quite difficult to recommend mouthpiece shapes since they are so individualized. I just wondered if you had any students who faced this cupid's bow issue and adjusted the mouthpiece to make playing easier. Alternatively, is chasing the mouthpiece the wrong solution?

[@benmcdonald2020]

Charlie are you saying that isometric tension a fundamental support characteristic of a good sound or and helps in creating a fundamental trumpet sound?

[@andrewhale337]

I believe that is what he is saying. lots of good stuff here, but having buzzed most of my life, and discovering that actively buzzing my lips is a merely isometric exercise, i.e. a waste of energy, my life has become easier! Tine Thing-Helseth can’t buzz her lips… but she has a beautiful tone and plays beautifully! our buzzing of the lips does not produce the sound, it is the vibrations of the air column that make the lips buzz.🤷🏻‍♂️ (it’s physics… other can explain it better.)

[@tomekp95]

Quality stuff

[@couchtheoryy]

I always learn a ton from your video, thanks man!

[@djsullivan9045]

Mr. Porter, you videos are the very best. However I have a "newbie" question. I love jazz & classical music -.so if I can only buy 1 trumpet should I get a B flat or a C Trumpet? Thanks in advance!

[@CharliePorter]

DJ Sullivan Thanks! Bb is definitely more versatile.

[@djsullivan9045]

@@CharliePorter Got it. Besides either way I would probably have to Transpose in order to play one form of music opposed to the other - right?

[@pebblebeach8517]

Can we relate this to the Maggio set up ( puckered)?

[@neilsouthgate4132]

In short, yes. I won't go too specific though. The Maggio System helps you to learn what embouchure muscles are useful in forming the stability Charlie speaks about, especially in relation to holding the top lip in position. The complexity is whether or not the Maggio System actually results in a pucker (think carefully about the instructions and this isn't necessarily the outcome), that the top lip might descend past the middle of the teeth and if what Charlie says can be paired with both these (this is where I won't go into detail). In simple, providing you can have stability and the embouchure muscles are engaged they are perfectly complimentary.

[@sachinpatilsachinpatil7114]

Yes sir

[@neocolors]

Thank you! I learned a lot here! Since you attach the lips to the teeth does this mean that you control the aperture and the pitch mainly with the jaw? I tried it today and i works good, but I often heard that moving the jaw too much should be avoided?

[@nachox28x28]

When I try to “attach my lips to the teeth,” I can never get my bottom lip in line without folding it backwards

[@da11king]

First time watching this video...I can't still get the three aspects right. Do I have to be a good free buzzer to become a great player?

[@선풍기-f6z]

Thank you need subtitles I am korean❤

[@kristerbergenhall9991]

Good

[@genoafire1]

Wow! Another awesome video. Thank you! Just wish you were not using the scissors to demonstrate with the scissors near your eyes. Gives me the he-be-jebes every time you do it, lol. (Retired FF/EMT). If I had seen the video when you first did it 3 years ago I would have sent you the money so you could afford an embouchure visualizer. 🧐. And I sure hope you didn’t run with them when the rain began pouring, LOL.

[@YoshiNishio]

There are hundreds of trumpet embouchure videos, but this video is the best one. I like the kind of music in the background, but it could be distracting for me to concentrate what you are saying. The music, I like keeps me away from hearing you.

[@TheNuncFluens]

Charlie can we get the name of the music used in these videos? That'd be amazing. Thanks!

[@ValDroby]

It is his music. Looking for this on Google Play Music or other music services.

[@小明王-g5l]

it`s so hard wow

[@neocolors]

13:53

[@Hubtones1]

Lol, don't think I've ever seen a video with over 200 likes and no dislikes😆, some jerk will ruin the streak

[@mickleb]

I think you just fixed me.

[@leopoldmoller1226]

instructions unclear - grass stuck in trumpet

[@danieloleary1782]

🥴

[@flamenfloralis]

Grass is just one way , among many, to focus the attention on how , under proper conditions ( enough tension and space), a flappy or soft thing can start vibrating an producing a sound ! Lips, our instrument, are flappy and soft. How to make them properly vibrating ? The explanation gven here is excellent , and most of all, efficient and useful.

[@CamiloOchoa7]

Thank you soooo much Charlie, I ve just realised that I’ve been playing my trumpet in the wrong way for the last 20 years…… but this gives me tremendous hope for the future…. God bless you my friend.. 👍🏼

[@richarddepinto6330]

Great job Charlie!! Your videos helped me significantly. Thank you!! By the way cut your grass. lol

[@thebetergede]

I'm not gonna buy my first trumpet until i get this buzzing right.

[@joshuamorales6242]

Confusion sets in when I REALIZE I cant lip buzz as high as U..

[@santiagosotelo6881]

4:10 min it would have been funny when you said: "i need something else" reference Cannonball Adderly's album "Somethin' else". I don't know...