Trumpet lessons secrets of high notes and breathing revealed!

Recent discoveries in acoustics and physics have lead to some new and powerful exersizes for trumpet players.
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• Trumpet lessons
• high notes
• trumpet chops
• trumpet secrets
• trumpet acoustics
• physics of brasses
• Peter Kartu
• TresMambo music school

[TresMamboMusicSchool]

Hey, heypepper. The whole point is that increase in both air pressure and flow controls BOTH the pitch and the volume. These exersizes are a way for you to take control of this annoying fact to your advantage. So that you can discover for yourself the quietest, the loudest, the lowest, the highest and everything in between. - Just do the exersizes for a week and you'll "get it" Its a blowing thing not a thinking thing

[Dionpr1]

Thanks.

I'm also interested the physics of the trumpet and how that relates to playing. Also what makes one trumpet better than another -specifically: bore, mouthpiece, materials, dimensions etc.

[TresMamboMusicSchool]

@Dionpr1 Hi there, in short, the changes in the geometry control EVERYTHING. This includes the mpc and any "imperfections".. Studies have been done to evaluate the effect of materials, don't matter one hoot. Its the MASS. Heavy horns with lots of bracing sound dark . Light horns sound bright and buzzy. Check out JASM (journal of the acoustic society of America) in your local university library to read the orignal research papers.Also visit the UNSW acoustics site. Cheers Pete

[TresMamboMusicSchool]

Many students have a very resistive system - lips, tongue all good for high but not enough wind power to drive it. Others the opposite, heaps of gas but their system is very floppy, They get louder rather than higher. This simple self regulating exercise will develop you in fast and balanced way no matter what your problem is. Three levels of volume, Three harmonics.....10 levels of volume 10 harmonics. Just like basketball you need to be able to shoot AND to run to win the game eh?

Cheers PK

[TresMamboMusicSchool]

So for the guy who asked "Simplify" here it is. If you can't make 9 levels of volume on a bottom C you WONT be able to play the 9th harmonic.ie top E. Now WHY you cant could be due to many other factors - don't matter WHY - just practise till you CAN then you can say OK got the air power! BUT THEN you need to be able to put a "#9 wind thru the #1 hole" so to speak. This we develop with the harmonics. The trick is to keep the air power and the resistive strength of the "system" in step.

[TresMamboMusicSchool]

My intention was to give you a simple fool proof way of improving your range and power. You don't even need to understand the why of it. Remember when you were a kid learning to ride a bike and your dad had to tell you "pedal faster" and the bike would be MORE stable? Kinda counter intuitive - but it works...but only if you have a go and do it....if you sit around on the street and attempt to decide without experiment if your dads advice is true or not....you'll never learn to ride that bike!

[Skrothn]

The egotism in that statement fills me with an overwhelming feeling of disgust. Music is not a competition so cut that "I'm better than you" shit out. What Stephen was getting at is that you might be able to play high, but that doesn't matter if you sound bad. You don't seem to understand music if you see it as a range competition or a competition in general. People like you ruin music and I wish you'd just GTFO of anything that is remotely connected to music. I bet you sound bad on the trumpet.

[luistrpt]

ahahhaahahahahhah what a stupid.....

[LegendaryCloud89]

@k0ptelefoon Trumpet is a wind instrument...you blow air into it...Learn your basics, learn your basics.

[999OMIT999]

I can Play higher. Much higher.

Thats just c3

[beatbxerman]

@shirups i guess its kinda like how a trumpet is a wind instrument. who knows. of course the actual trumpet is made of brass. funny world we live in.

[beatbxerman]

@shirups i suppose its because of the reed system that flaps to produce sound on the clarinet is made of wood. Wind is passing through the wood to make sound. i guess.

[manysons]

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[heypepper]

@heypepper sorry bout the extra post, this should say BACK PRESSURE from the instrument.

[heypepper]

@heypepper From the instrument, increased resistance in the embouchre due to a decrease in size of the aperture, etc.. I may have misunderstood your physics if this is exactly what you meant so I apologize in advance, but I thought it necessary to bring these facts to light since it wasn't clear to me in the video. I don't know if you have heard of it, but the Carmine Caruso method book is an excellent book to apply your ideas to and experiment more with air speeds in the upper register!

[heypepper]

@heypepper but should include air speeds. Physics wise I'm sure you more than understand that higher pitches run on higher frequencies which use faster wavelengths (i.e A440 then an octave higher is A220(I'm might be wrong about this can't remember off the top of my head). Volume is controlled more by quantity of air, so that portion you have right. Also there is definately more pressure in the upper register of the instrument HOWEVER this is indicitive of many factors such as ....