The Embouchure Motion

This short video discusses some observable features in all brass player's embouchure. It covers how anatomical differences affect the way this embouchure motion functions for different players and also offers some suggestions for teachers and players.

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Music

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• embouchure
• motion
• downstream
• upstream
• trumpet
• trombone
• french
• horn
• tuba
• pivot

[PhyloidealCreations]

with all of this information, can you please help me and tell me what I am doing right and what I am doing wrong and if it is natural to do all these things at the same time and still be running out of breath and my notes sounding so forced.

I know this goes with practice but I wanted to know if Im going by the right path.

Thanks dave wilkin

[wilktone]

PhyloidealCreations, there is no way I can help you without being able to watch you play in person. My best advice for you is to find a knowledgeable teacher for private lessons. Good luck!

[PhyloidealCreations]

Right...thanks anyway for replying.

[wilktone]

Lining up the embouchure aperture with the middle of the mouthpiece will typically cause more problems. One lip or another should predominate, even just a little, or else the lips will tend to slip between upstream and downstream. There really is not such thing as blowing straight into the shank of the mouthpiece. It just doesn't work.

[DMGDeed]

It's good that you're trying to align the middle of your mouth with the middle of the mouthpiece. Try blowing a stream of air without any of the instrument so that you're blowing straight in front of your face, then apply that with buzz on the mouthpiece. I'm not much of an expert on embouchures myself, but I think that would help, especially if somebody could explain it better than I just did.

[AllStater09]

Agreed! I play with the lower part of my lip the majority of the time and it helps me have a nice warm tone... plus it helps what type of horn you have(laquer or gold). I also had the same type of director that kept enforcing for me to play on the top portion of the lip. But for dr.dave wilkin, I have a few questions. first and for most is it ok for you to play on your lower lip all the time. And is there a way to go up in the register with out pulling the corners? Thanks a bunch for the post.

[PhyloidealCreations]

With all of this, and knowing that i still am discovering and exploring the instrument, as i only play over a month or two, and knowing well too that I still wasting too much air playing the notes and I fell dizzy frequently and, because of that, my notes still sound too airy not hearing just the note but the air going out and the note at the same time;

[PhyloidealCreations]

do what you call the embouchure motion pushing the mouthpiece towards my nose to ascend and staying in the middle to play basic and low range

and i change a bit the angle the mouth does with the trumpet as shown as the wrong way considered by Farkas in your down/upstream vid.

[PhyloidealCreations]

I play with my bottom lip rolled in or receded as shown as the wrong way considered by Farkas in your down/upstream vid.

but to ascend to high notes i do, at the same time: push the trumpet against my lips slightly roll in very few my bottom lip making the stream of air going even more downstream, almost perpendicular at my face and mouth waste some air more, making more pressure

[PhyloidealCreations]

i just recently began to play trumpet. i was very unabled at the begining (i still are) but now, after watching your vids, i tryed some of the variations i had no idea that existed and, though i still suck and i use lots of air to play a note and she sounds loose yet, i think i stablished more or less my primitive embouchure:

i play with the mouthpiece nearly in the middle of the mouth but with more bottom lip than upper one (calling that downstream, i guess).