I got back into trumpet recently, my embouchure is slightly to the right and I can only play for a half hour before my lips can't hold anymore high notes (keep slipping). When I was done I looked at my lip in the mirror and the right side of my top lip hangs lower then the left. Am I screwing my lips up, or are my lips just not used to it yet. I don't want to have a crooked lip in order to play trumpet.
@SnowBroProductions If your placement is off to either side it should be due to teeth and or gaps in them. To help find your true placement play into the leadpipe with tuning slide removed. Get a very clear sound and then move the notes down and up. By play testing different positions you can find your best placement and at the same time get your air and embouchure working together. Then play the same note with the slide put back in the horn - you will be amazed at the difference. gRawlin.com
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This is a great video. I was kind of upset because I was watching some videos of people who you say do that incorrect/artificial type of lip buzz. I thought I was playing my trumpet wrong because I couldn't do that type of buzz. It makes me feel glad to know that I've been doing the correct more relaxed way. I was wondering though. Were you saying it's bad to touch your top lip to your bottom teeth to cut sound? Because I always have to play too loud for high notes and that may help to cut sound
@johnmorisi8 Actually I refer to bottom lips that rise up and roll in eventually hitting the top teeth which cuts the sound off. Usually characterized by a thin sound in the upper register that finally gives up.
The top lip remains in contact with the lower lip whilst playing - neither should touch the teeth edges
Oh, my apologies, I meant the bottom lip touching the top teeth. I was practicing today with that in mind, and I noticed that my teeth do touch, and I probably end up blowing harder to force the sound through. So for my teeth not to touch I have to avoid that lower lip rolling in? When I try to make it avoid rolling into my teeth I have trouble producing any sound... is that something I just need to get used to and re-develop?
Very helpful...This needs to be emphasized more when kids first start playing brass. I started playing with a poor lip position, and it became a habit. I've struggled throughout school as a result.
thnx!!! im in grade 10 and i seem to play with my top lip over the mouth piece. i can play fine but i tire very quickly because of it!! i can buzz decently well for a 10th grader but any tips would be nice!
the spanish subtitles is a good idea. I do not speak the language but am interesting in finding more about the possibility. The production time may make it impractical, but I'll investigate. If anyone wants to post a short translation here you have my permission.
I do the "pucker buzzing" the best. The other ones I tried and I can't get a decent buzzing sound. I am watching the video and buzzing along and my cat's looking at me funny..lol. Thank you for posting.
Since more than a year a backbone injury disables me to carry out my daily exercise on the cornetto. Nevertheless I do a lot of buzzing every day for keeping my embouchure. It works very well. I found out the best way to practice is with pointed lips, as if I would blow into a mouthpiece. If you like, hear me in a duet with jazz singer Daniela Rothenburg. Just search: DAS BAEUMCHEN.
BTW you know who has beautiful pedal tones who uses them musically is Arturo Sandoval. I guess when he was growing up in Cuba he used Claudes study methods
I did study with Claude Gordon and buxxing the mouthpiece was used - but not the way I am using it in this video. CG used pedal tones to - in my opinion - accomplish a similar result.
Grawlin have you ever done the Bud Brisbois exercise?? It's where you hold your mouth piece firmly with your lips, however, instead of holding it perpindicular to your body, you lean over and let the mp dangle. I reallly don't think its doing anything more than working the same muscles as the pencil exercise. The pencil exercise has had a huge impact on my playing insofar as range and endurance.
not if that is where the air naturally comes out best or if your teethe are a little crooked. Just be sure to apply any feft hand pressure you use at the same angle as the teeth lie. Otherwise you will trap one side of the embouchure .
i have another question....my couzin played on the side for 2 years then he switched his amboucher to the middlefor another 2 years for no aparent reason...is that a bad thing?
better buzz. I managed to fix that and I'm now making continuous improvements on my buzzing which I feel have transferred over to my trumpet playing. Great video! Thanks!
Great video! I came to college a couple months ago with no knowledge of free buzzing. My trumpet professor got me to start working at it a few weeks into the semester. It killed me at first because I just couldn't get it. After a while, I figured out I could get a sound if I put my tongue up against my lips. Totally wrong. So I had to go back to the drawing board. FINALLY I figured it out. I was so happy! Two weeks ago my trumpet professor told me I needed to bring my top lip back in to get a
Too bad about your split lip. I believe trumpet players should never never use the "smile" embouchure . Like stretching a rubber band to it's limits and it will break. You will help players with your videos like this one .
Yup. Smiling won't help you out. My professor says it's all about air speed and aperture. Technically, your speed should dictate the aperture. So far, it's worked really well for me. I used to have problems with smiling.
Your professor is so right. Sometimes I breathe in a full tank of air and let it out and near the end try to buzz thru the mouthpiece or play a note and completely fail! That reminds me of the interdependence of proper air flow and buzzing.Keeps me honest lol.
Thanks ! I'm a french guy of 27 years old and learn trumpet since 3 years in the wrong way, the first you told. You open my eyes. I knew it was maybe wrong but I would not see the reality. Really thanks and I'm going to annihilate my bad habits.I try to do more like Maggio now, it's a hard feeling, it's a new beginning but I see the potentiality ! Thanks again.
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yourbrassinstructor 1 week ago
im a master of free buzzing for some reason o.o i wet an amazing tone when i free buzz
ilikemewaffle 1 week ago
I got back into trumpet recently, my embouchure is slightly to the right and I can only play for a half hour before my lips can't hold anymore high notes (keep slipping). When I was done I looked at my lip in the mirror and the right side of my top lip hangs lower then the left. Am I screwing my lips up, or are my lips just not used to it yet. I don't want to have a crooked lip in order to play trumpet.
SnowBroProductions 3 months ago
@SnowBroProductions If your placement is off to either side it should be due to teeth and or gaps in them. To help find your true placement play into the leadpipe with tuning slide removed. Get a very clear sound and then move the notes down and up. By play testing different positions you can find your best placement and at the same time get your air and embouchure working together. Then play the same note with the slide put back in the horn - you will be amazed at the difference. gRawlin.com
grawlin 3 months ago
When I buzz in my trumpet I get the sound, but at the last second my lips make a different sound. Great video
MrSandman1899 5 months ago
this is a great vid it will really help my dad he is a 17 old not been trumpiting
he never lerned how to buzz he struggles to keep his embiesure firm
skulldrunk 5 months ago
thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you thank you i cant finally be in band
JayWalkerOnline 6 months ago
I want to get back into playing regularly again. Any tips or suggestions that I can use to achieve getting my sound back. Anything is helpful.
wilmonie 7 months ago
This is a great video. I was kind of upset because I was watching some videos of people who you say do that incorrect/artificial type of lip buzz. I thought I was playing my trumpet wrong because I couldn't do that type of buzz. It makes me feel glad to know that I've been doing the correct more relaxed way. I was wondering though. Were you saying it's bad to touch your top lip to your bottom teeth to cut sound? Because I always have to play too loud for high notes and that may help to cut sound
johnmorisi8 8 months ago
@johnmorisi8 Actually I refer to bottom lips that rise up and roll in eventually hitting the top teeth which cuts the sound off. Usually characterized by a thin sound in the upper register that finally gives up.
The top lip remains in contact with the lower lip whilst playing - neither should touch the teeth edges
grawlin 8 months ago
@grawlin
Oh, my apologies, I meant the bottom lip touching the top teeth. I was practicing today with that in mind, and I noticed that my teeth do touch, and I probably end up blowing harder to force the sound through. So for my teeth not to touch I have to avoid that lower lip rolling in? When I try to make it avoid rolling into my teeth I have trouble producing any sound... is that something I just need to get used to and re-develop?
johnmorisi8 8 months ago
geoge, can you do another video on lip devolpment, i have a lot of trouble buzzing without my mouth piece.
uniforchrist 10 months ago
@uniforchrist ; yeah me too
wowjoe17 7 months ago
I just got my new trumpet and could use some helpful tips
ragedarbiter11 10 months ago
Very helpful...This needs to be emphasized more when kids first start playing brass. I started playing with a poor lip position, and it became a habit. I've struggled throughout school as a result.
sbh302 11 months ago
thnx!!! im in grade 10 and i seem to play with my top lip over the mouth piece. i can play fine but i tire very quickly because of it!! i can buzz decently well for a 10th grader but any tips would be nice!
gohito456 11 months ago
It's me, or doing lip buzz helps you with higher notes?
Starner95 1 year ago
thank you dude you do best!
ijlipidij 1 year ago
the spanish subtitles is a good idea. I do not speak the language but am interesting in finding more about the possibility. The production time may make it impractical, but I'll investigate. If anyone wants to post a short translation here you have my permission.
grawlin 1 year ago 2
I do the "pucker buzzing" the best. The other ones I tried and I can't get a decent buzzing sound. I am watching the video and buzzing along and my cat's looking at me funny..lol. Thank you for posting.
8835855 1 year ago
Since more than a year a backbone injury disables me to carry out my daily exercise on the cornetto. Nevertheless I do a lot of buzzing every day for keeping my embouchure. It works very well. I found out the best way to practice is with pointed lips, as if I would blow into a mouthpiece. If you like, hear me in a duet with jazz singer Daniela Rothenburg. Just search: DAS BAEUMCHEN.
Alberad08 1 year ago
Si, por favor... subtitulen en español. Parece muy interesante... pero no entiendo nada.
gdbaron 1 year ago
yo ican play pretty good but i cant do it for long after like 10 minutes i cant hit the higher note..so basicly my rage goes down..
esteban1BS 1 year ago
grawlin I need help. Please help.
Huskyowner2007 2 years ago
esta muy bueno el video pero pongan subtitulos en español para k lo entienda mejor thanks my friend
weckling11 2 years ago
@weckling11 Maybe some nice person will translate your ? for me - I believe you said it would help if I had subtitles?
grawlin 1 year ago
@grawlin oye si tu puedes o conoces a alguien k los pueda pasar a español te lo agradeceria mucho a darme una idea de lo k trata ok
thanks
weckling11 1 year ago
@grawlin he is asking you if you could put spanish subtitles so he can understand
XxXbigstarXx 1 year ago
@grawlin he did say this:
this is a good video, but pleas put some subtitles in spanish, so that I can undertand it, thanks my friend
chaynsex 1 year ago
weckling11 said ''this very good video but put subtitles in Spanish to better understand it k thanks my friend''
If you ever need to translate you can use google translate.
DungeonRaider 1 year ago
@grawlin this is a very good video but put subtitles in spanish so that it is easier to understand
dtskiermaster 1 year ago
@grawlin he's saying: the video is very good but put subtitles in Spanish to better understand what k thanks my friend
petcrazy1000 3 months ago
BTW you know who has beautiful pedal tones who uses them musically is Arturo Sandoval. I guess when he was growing up in Cuba he used Claudes study methods
1vibrato 2 years ago
Did Claude Gordon or Doc Reinhardt ever advocate free buzzing like this??
1vibrato 2 years ago
I did study with Claude Gordon and buxxing the mouthpiece was used - but not the way I am using it in this video. CG used pedal tones to - in my opinion - accomplish a similar result.
I never met Reinhardt
grawlin 2 years ago
BuZZzing - bad little finger - bad little finger:)
grawlin 2 years ago 2
Grawlin have you ever done the Bud Brisbois exercise?? It's where you hold your mouth piece firmly with your lips, however, instead of holding it perpindicular to your body, you lean over and let the mp dangle. I reallly don't think its doing anything more than working the same muscles as the pencil exercise. The pencil exercise has had a huge impact on my playing insofar as range and endurance.
1vibrato 2 years ago
i have a question if anyone can answer. is it wrong to have your emboucher a little on the side?
muzik231 2 years ago
not if that is where the air naturally comes out best or if your teethe are a little crooked. Just be sure to apply any feft hand pressure you use at the same angle as the teeth lie. Otherwise you will trap one side of the embouchure .
gR
grawlin 2 years ago
i have another question....my couzin played on the side for 2 years then he switched his amboucher to the middlefor another 2 years for no aparent reason...is that a bad thing?
muzik231 2 years ago
better buzz. I managed to fix that and I'm now making continuous improvements on my buzzing which I feel have transferred over to my trumpet playing. Great video! Thanks!
JDubbs1190 2 years ago
Great video! I came to college a couple months ago with no knowledge of free buzzing. My trumpet professor got me to start working at it a few weeks into the semester. It killed me at first because I just couldn't get it. After a while, I figured out I could get a sound if I put my tongue up against my lips. Totally wrong. So I had to go back to the drawing board. FINALLY I figured it out. I was so happy! Two weeks ago my trumpet professor told me I needed to bring my top lip back in to get a
JDubbs1190 2 years ago
Too bad about your split lip. I believe trumpet players should never never use the "smile" embouchure . Like stretching a rubber band to it's limits and it will break. You will help players with your videos like this one .
Johnflugelhorn 2 years ago
Yup. Smiling won't help you out. My professor says it's all about air speed and aperture. Technically, your speed should dictate the aperture. So far, it's worked really well for me. I used to have problems with smiling.
JDubbs1190 2 years ago
Your professor is so right. Sometimes I breathe in a full tank of air and let it out and near the end try to buzz thru the mouthpiece or play a note and completely fail! That reminds me of the interdependence of proper air flow and buzzing.Keeps me honest lol.
Johnflugelhorn 2 years ago
Thanks ! I'm a french guy of 27 years old and learn trumpet since 3 years in the wrong way, the first you told. You open my eyes. I knew it was maybe wrong but I would not see the reality. Really thanks and I'm going to annihilate my bad habits.I try to do more like Maggio now, it's a hard feeling, it's a new beginning but I see the potentiality ! Thanks again.
rodyrod22 2 years ago