How To Play Trumpet Without Pressure or How To REDUCE Mouthpiece Pressure
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- Опубліковано 21 лип 2024
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Todays subject is: how play trumpet without mouthpiece pressure OR how to reduce trumpet mouthpiece pressure.
Hi it’s Bob from Finland coming at you today with a video on how to reduce mouthpiece pressure when playing the trumpet / how to play trumpet without pressure. Stay with me all the way to the end because I’m going to show you one easy but effective exercise.
Ok, so let’s start with learning the “no pressure grip”.
Thumb outside the finger hook and I would recommend you tilt your trumpet slightly to avoid dropping it. Because I do NOT want you to send me the repair bill.
Now that you got the no pressure grip down we will do the no pressure exercise and there are two parts to this exercise. The first part is just there as a test to find your optimal notes that you are going to use in the second part of the exercise.
I call these notes your no pressure working notes and to do that we are going to slur some notes until we reach the point where you hand starts to slide.
So this is how you do the test to find your no pressure working notes.
How to play trumpet without pressure, keep going!
We are going to use half notes and start on a comfortable middle “g”. Then rest for about four beats. Play the “g” again but this time slur up to “C”..
Keep going up until you feel that your trumpet is beginning to slide on your hand. So let’s say your hand starts to slide when you are going to do the next one when you are trying to go up to B-flat.
Ok great! NOW you should go back and use the last phrase you played BEFORE your hand started to slide and use only those 4 notes for your no pressure exercise.
Those notes are your working notes and that phrase will be your no pressure exercise.
The reason for using the notes from the phrase BEFORE your hand stared to slide is because we want to be working from a position of strength instead of from a position of weakness. If we were to practice right on the edge, and a bit beyond what we are capable of...
...well, in this case, then we are just basically training how to fail and we don't want to do that. Playing trumpet is hard enough so no need to practice to fail ;)
So now in the second part of the exercise you take your personal working notes and what you are going to do is to play that phrase 5 times in a row using the no pressure grip for the first 4 times and with your normal grip the 5 time.
How to play trumpet without mouthpiece pressure, example:
The reason we switch to the normal grip the fifth time is because we want to transfer the feeling FROM the no pressure exercise to our normal grip and our normal way of holding the trumpet. And if you were wondering why you should go back one phrase and choose the phrase your played before your hand started to slide well, the reason for that is because it is much better to keep working on this from a position of strength rather than from a position of weakness.
If you keep practicing right on the edge where you hand starts to slide over and over again well then you are basically practicing how to fail and start using mouthpiece pressure. I hope that make sense.
So do this exercise 3-4 times every day you practice the trumpet and a good way to do it is to to throw it in in some of your normal routines. For example if you are practicing a piece of music then in the middle of that session do the no pressure exercise, rest for a couple of minutes and then try to take the no pressure feeling with you when you continue to practice your music.
This will teach you how to reduce mouthpiece pressure when playing the trumpet.
If you are watching this video on my website then continue reading down below for a few more easy tips on how to reduce mouthpiece pressure and if you found this video on youtube you can click the link down onder the video to GO to my website.
Ok, that’s it for today, if you found this video informative then consider subscribing for more trumpet videos. Have a happy and awesome day.
Thank you for watching the video "How to play trumpet without pressure"
Link to the blog with four more tips mybesttrumpet.com/how-to-play-trumpet-without-pressure-mouthpiece/
I didn't know how much I pressure it before I tried this now... Wow I really suck at playing trumpet huh
I recommend everyone watching this to really implement the exercise into their daily practice routine
Has it helped you?
This has proved invaluable for me. Large improvements in stamina & tone quality in the upper register after a few weeks. Thanks very much!
There really is no such thing as 'non-pressure' when the mouthpiece is touching the lips. It's a basic law of physics that when there is contact, there is pressure. What is being suggested here is minimum pressure. But this video is still a well-presented video on how to minimize pressure on the mouthpiece. Another 'angle' I get from this video is that this teacher is showing how not to use excessive hand pressure on the mouthpiece.
Why did you take the time to write this paragraph, only to say you understood what he meant, essentially showing how trivial your point is?
This is great! Thank you so much for this video! I just started implementing this into my daily practice, and my goodness, I realized how much I rely on pressure! I can barely hit an E on the staff...
Not ideal, but hopefully this will develop my embouchure, and my core!
Thank you so very much !!!
I believe my range and endurance will be jacked up after a few weeks of training.
Is it
That's a really neat idea! Thank you man
Looks good to me! Thanks!
The video thumbnail is awesome :D
Great teaching
Very valuable I use too much pressure.
Subscribed and loving these great different exercises 🎺🎺can’t wait to give them a try👏tak
Extra excelent video awsome,,5 Stars to you
Good teaching
Very good... Thanks
Great thanks v much
Thank you my friend...
Yeah, Suomi, this is excellent! Thank you!
Kiitos!!
Wauw!! What a Fabulous TRICK!? - VEEERY Useful!? - ! And here I have struggled to TRY to KEEP me? From? -Unconciously falling back to my original faulty learned Pressure?! THIS IS A GREAT HELP! IT WORKED! Imidialtely!? For ME!? THANK YOU SO Much!!!!!! LOVE YOu for this Trick!(Grip!)! ;DDD
Is the Bb and High C both open key fundamental blows? When I think of the Bb note I think of the first valve and high C as open. Please advise. Thanks 🙏
Concert Bb is a C for trumpet, and the high C (above the staff) is open if that’s what you’re wondering
Is there a device I can attach to my trumpet so I dont need to lip buzz, the device will do it for me?
Sounds like you want to play sax instead. The reed does all the work.
I only have my right arm. I have no way of doing what you recommended.
Hi Bob, What size of mouthpiece do you use? Your teeth look a bit like mine (overbite) are you Finnish? I have trouble playing high notes& teeth hurt my lips constantly...
what do i do if G is undo able
I would start on the C below and then go up to the G
Which size mouthpiece is best....
Whatever fits you. It's like shoes. Everyone needs the appropriate size. Study with a teacher who can help. Beware of any teacher who themselves boxes people into "well if you study with me, you need to play X size/brand mouthpiece". Too many idiots like that out there.
Does the white ring which remains briefly after removing your horn to talk indicate you are using pressure? I have never been able to avoid a little lip pressure. Kudos to those guys (Rafael Mendez for one) who can play with no pressure, but I learned my first trumpet skills from a violinist with a music degree who taught all the instruments. He taught that high notes required a smile and a little pressure. A lifetime of work to undo this early learning has been unsuccessful, so my playable range ends at high E flat on a good day. Trumpet is like no other instrument in this respect. So all you great guys on UA-cam who can gliss effortlessly to double high C should be teaching elementary students or better yet, those music majors who intend to teach beginners. Then UA-cam will be flooded with how to play screech notes without using lip pressure vids. But thanks for your informative vid, sir. Hope some early learners find you before it's too late.
How long have you played? I've played trombone for 7 years so far and I've just come across this. I really hope I can fix this because its painful to play high notes.
@@isaacrichter1101 Isaac, I quit trumpet for 25 years after playing semi-pro through college. When I resumed playing, I found a new love, valve trombone. I have two, both concert pitch (to avoid transposing bass clef). One is a restored WW2 era French Besson, for beauty. The other is a King, for brawn. I still use pressure with trumpet, but less. A larger diameter mouthpiece has helped. I do use E cups on each horn for higher work. I don't use pressure playing trombone. Honestly, it's about muscularity. Don't stretch your lip, or smile while playing. The lip serves the surrounding muscles. I also play flute, which requires frowning the lip. It helps with both flute and brass. I highly recommend finding a pro who knows how to teach. And put in those practice hours. There may be a transitional curve in which your sound will go bad for awhile, but persist. If you love music and want to advance, there's no trick, just correct practice. I am 73 and play all my instruments publicly each week.
@@raymae60 Thank you for the helpful advice. I think that I've done it for so long to play high notes, that it's become a habit. I am going to focus on not using pressure to play higher notes. You're also probably right about needing to build up muscles for my embouchure. I will take your advice and try to correct this.
@@raymae60 raymae60 Thank you for your advice. I will be careful about using mouthpiece pressure when I'm playing. I play with almost no pressure from my petal notes to my concert F above the staff in bass clef. Past that point I seem to need slightly more pressure to get the notes out. And then past Bb above the staff I need more pressure. I will work on playing my upper register with less pressure and see about getting a teacher. Once again, thank you.
@@raymae60 extremely based old guy advice
any advice to unlearn these harmful habits? hopefully i am still young enough to unlearn it properly!
My highest no pressure note is low C. I guess I'm not meant to be a trumpet player.
There will always be some pressure on order to get the mouthpiece to seal against your lips.
Good video. I don't think this "no pressure grip" is at all necessary. All that is needed is having self-awareness to not pull the horn to your face as you do lip slurs up the harmonic series.
It makes me feel ashamed of our half-assed education system in the U.S. whenever I see how well other people around the world speak English, knowing how poorly I can speak other languages, even as an educated and genuinely interested person. I wish more people in the U.S. realized how much would be gained by a broader education system, to speak nothing of an education system the universally supports things like musical development or artistic development.
Isn't the Finnish national anthem the one that's about how its skies are the bluest blues, but others too have blue skies? That would be a good thing for us to learn as well.
Im not playing a jazz/perinet trumpet so it wouldnt work...