Every top pro player who experiences problems playing (after injury, killing their chops, etc...) calls Bobby for advice, to get back on track. The fact he puts his teachings online for free is just beautiful!
My first virtual lesson with Bobby this past year in April changed my life plus therapeutic, spiritual, educational, inspirational and stuff...his philosophy, teaching and education skills plus his talk on the Wedge breathing speaks clearly
Thank you for posting this! I've heard Bobby explain this a number of times. Everytime I hear him teach this I learn more and more. Bobby is such a great teacher and player. We are indebted.
Took up playing again after 45yrs. AND I picked up a beautiful lil Yamaha YRT 4335 GSAC for $600CDN to boot Mr. Shew!! Thanks so mych much for sharing your gift with us amateurs!!🎺
I have recently picked up the trumpet again after 35 years…. I got lucky and found a Bach Strat model 1B large bore .. and I’m glad I did😃 it’s been fulfilling and satisfying
Such great instruction! I saw this video a couple of years ago and simply began practicing his fully conscious wedge breathing, my playing improved by 30-40%, thank you Bobby Shew
That was great watching that video. When I was taking lessons from Carmine Caruso I would ask him about breathing. One day he drew a picture for me and explained the the process. It was a lesson that stood with me till this day. Thank you for the detailed explanation. I know this lesson will stay with me in the same way.
This is invaluable information, and coming from a legend, don’t get hung up on little things like the diaphragm not being a muscle. It is a muscle for the record, but Everything he explains on the physics of it all is spot on.. thank you for this!!
It's refreshing to see someone see the positives from this clip rather than be hung up exclusively on details that they don't like or that Bobby got wrong - and be nasty about it. I typically delete those nasty comments so that people can judge for themselves and learn something helpful about breathing. Thank you!
Played second chair in his big band when he came to the UK in around 1991.. It was Bobby who convinced me to stop playing trumpet. I am so grateful to Bobby as I went on to write and produce - and I got lucky! Just started playing trumpet again last year.
It's a very touchy subject. I like the analogy by C. Gordon: - Breath like you are running with the ball as if football player or like a weightlifter position as about to lift...in both examples your chest is up and naturally taking enough air. Air is only gets to the lungs. This will generate very strong and controlled power in playing on trumpet as long as chest is up.. btw, diaphragm is involuntary muscle that can't be controlled by human. This concept helped me and many others to play easy and enjoyable. Regardless I absolutely respect Bobby...
What's touchy about it? Bobby explains it perfectly plus he can do it over and over again creating incredible compression. He never says the air can go anywhere but the lungs.
Bobby/Michael/Music Savvy team, the video seems to stop abruptly at 37:34? I feel I’m missing vital information from Bobby! Can you let me have the full video or fix it on UA-cam? Thanks, Peter
Hey, Bobby! You probably don't remember me. I met & played with you in Las Vegas ( something like 50 years ago..is that possible? I guess so! ) Anyway, I listened to your teaching on wedge breathing & I think it helped me quite a bit! I have added trumpet to my little family of horns & I need all the help I can get. Just wanted to say thanks! your friend, John.
Great video! In that Doc Severinsen clip near the end, are the shoulders going up each time instead of releasing the wedge grip? IOW a “topping-off” breath instead of a full breath each time (steps 1-5 of the wedge)?
The great Bobby Shew Played for Buddy Rich for 18 months. was fired 26 times Composed Red Snapper. Love that tune. "Where there's tremendous arrogance, you're looking at the superficial side of insecurity" --Bobby Shew
It’s compressed air pushed up by the diaphragm. Take a breath and lift and push. Same muscles and physical activity used to sing. Don’t complicate it, just do it 🤷♂️🤪👍🎶🕺🏴🇬🇧
Nope, its not easy imo. If you tell someone to just "push" it will most likely not be optimal. This method ensures that you are breathing and compressing correctly. I've been playing for many many years, but this video really enhanced the way i could compress air, even though i felt like i was giving it everything before.
I truly enjoy Bobby who is truly one of the greats in music, but he is wrong when he says that the diaphragm is a membrane and NOT a muscle. It is a thin muscle and is listed as a MUSCLE in all literature about anatomy. This diaphragm muscle is what does the work of moving the lungs by compression. People can breathe (regular intake and output) on and on, all without much involvement of the other thoracic muscles like the abdominals, or various other "core" section muscles. He is right that there are both voluntary and involuntary muscle contractions and that extreme actions require extra actions by anatomy. These actions are controlled by very lower sections of our brain area, which operate to do things like keeping the heart beating, sweating, having hairs stand up on the skin, doing a "shrug" motion in the shoulders area, or taking regular breaths. and yes, the other muscles can really become involved and help when massive pressure is needed. Great insights about the "never raise shoulders" stuff. I agree that we need to follow natural motions, and simply do not ARTIFICIALLY use motions that are not needed or natural. One need not PREVENT natural adjusting motions of things like shoulders or abdominals. Your body mostly knows how to move around to accomplish needed actions.
Mr Shew, the diaphragm IS a MUSCLE, not a "membrane." It is the primary and vastly dominant breathing muscle. The intercostal (rib) muscles assist the diaphragm. Two neck muscles, the sternocleidomasoid and scalenes muscles help elevate the ribs, and thus assist the intercostals. Other muscles that contribute to breathing are the serratus anterior, pectoralis major and pectoralis minor, trapezius, latissimus dorsi, erector spinae, iliocostalis, quadratus lumborum, serratus posterior superior, serratus posterior inferior, levatores costarum, transversus thoracis, and subclavius muscles. The rectus abdomini and transverse abdominus muscles support the diaphragm, as well as provide compression and expelling force, ie, breath support. I'm a trumpet player, a competing weightlifter, have studied yoga breathing, and have extensive academic and practical knowledge of anatomy and physiology,
You may be "a trumpet player, a competing weightlifter, have studied yoga breathing, and have extensive academic and practical knowledge of anatomy and physiology," but you lack humility.
So? I don’t think he’s breaking any copyright laws. Bobby explains it better than any of the numerous yoga books I’ve read since Maynard Ferguson said that was his approach.
No. Air VELOCITY is NOT the determination of pitch played. The embouchure controls pitch. The air pressure controls dynamics. This video is a complexification of a simple concept of exhalation effort to control the air pressure.
Every top pro player who experiences problems playing (after injury, killing their chops, etc...) calls Bobby for advice, to get back on track.
The fact he puts his teachings online for free is just beautiful!
My first virtual lesson with Bobby this past year in April changed my life plus therapeutic, spiritual, educational, inspirational and stuff...his philosophy, teaching and education skills plus his talk on the Wedge breathing speaks clearly
Are you still playing?
@@MaynardFreek yes I am
Thank you for posting this! I've heard Bobby explain this a number of times. Everytime I hear him teach this I learn more and more. Bobby is such a great teacher and player. We are indebted.
Wow this is amazing. His explanation is so good and I wish this was around when I started playing.
Took up playing again after 45yrs. AND I picked up a beautiful lil Yamaha YRT 4335 GSAC for $600CDN to boot Mr. Shew!! Thanks so mych much for sharing your gift with us amateurs!!🎺
I have recently picked up the trumpet again after 35 years…. I got lucky and found a Bach Strat model 1B large bore .. and I’m glad I did😃 it’s been fulfilling and satisfying
Such great instruction! I saw this video a couple of years ago and simply began practicing his fully conscious wedge breathing, my playing improved by 30-40%, thank you Bobby Shew
This video is invaluable to playing trumpet! Bobby is a great expert! I'm intensely interested in the information he is sharing here!
That was great watching that video. When I was taking lessons from Carmine Caruso I would ask him about breathing. One day he drew a picture for me and explained the the process. It was a lesson that stood with me till this day. Thank you for the detailed explanation. I know this lesson will stay with me in the same way.
This is invaluable information, and coming from a legend, don’t get hung up on little things like the diaphragm not being a muscle. It is a muscle for the record, but Everything he explains on the physics of it all is spot on.. thank you for this!!
It's refreshing to see someone see the positives from this clip rather than be hung up exclusively on details that they don't like or that Bobby got wrong - and be nasty about it. I typically delete those nasty comments so that people can judge for themselves and learn something helpful about breathing. Thank you!
A walking bible on what's right in trumpet breathing techniques. Thanks Bobby.
Well done Mike, sharing this with my students!
Spent two weeks with Bobby years ago very focussed player and teacher great guy amazing player and always looks at the positive
Are you still playing?
Yip sure am
Great great info and still a secret to many of us... thank you very much for sharing..
Played second chair in his big band when he came to the UK in around 1991.. It was Bobby who convinced me to stop playing trumpet.
I am so grateful to Bobby as I went on to write and produce - and I got lucky!
Just started playing trumpet again last year.
I'd like to hear more about this story!
great stuff "Music Savvy". Thanks for sharing. Can you post the document with illustrations about the wedge that he sent you? Really great stuff!
Booby is the best of the best. If you follow what he says, plays, teaches you win a (musical and personal) lottery. 🙏🙏🙏
Hehe
I'm watching it right now.
It's a very touchy subject. I like the analogy by C. Gordon: - Breath like you are running with the ball as if football player or like a weightlifter position as about to lift...in both examples your chest is up and naturally taking enough air. Air is only gets to the lungs. This will generate very strong and controlled power in playing on trumpet as long as chest is up.. btw, diaphragm is involuntary muscle that can't be controlled by human.
This concept helped me and many others to play easy and enjoyable.
Regardless I absolutely respect Bobby...
What's touchy about it? Bobby explains it perfectly plus he can do it over and over again creating incredible compression. He never says the air can go anywhere but the lungs.
A grand Master ❤️👍
Excellent lesson. Vrery helpful. Thank you.
What a wise, humble man!
Bobby is a great jazz trumpeter. Some good advice on his concept of ‘wedge’ breathing. Worth investigating. Many thanks. 🥶🙏🇬🇧🥶👍
Thank you Bobby, this is wonderful information You are truly a Master Teacher / Player and a Great Gift from God!
So fun to hear you Boobby, you got all the answers!
Would love to see the fluroscope video!!
Bobby/Michael/Music Savvy team, the video seems to stop abruptly at 37:34?
I feel I’m missing vital information from Bobby! Can you let me have the full video or fix it on UA-cam?
Thanks, Peter
This is very good. Very very good. Of course it is...it is Bobby Shew...:-)
i love how he play
Bobby Shew is the man !!
Hey, Bobby! You probably don't remember me. I met & played with you in Las Vegas ( something like 50 years ago..is that possible? I guess so! ) Anyway, I listened to your teaching on wedge breathing & I think it helped me quite a bit! I have added trumpet to my little family of horns & I need all the help I can get. Just wanted to say thanks! your friend, John.
The funniest shit ....Bobby's reply @ 17:14 I seriously LOL'd -danny b
27:49 Demonstration
So good!!! Can the rest of the interview be seen anywhere?
Hi G, fancy seeing you here!
@@scotttinkler man, this was a year ago!! You know I love hearing Bobby talk
@@MrGiannimarinucci and so do I, he's a bloody legend and right on point as always.
@@scotttinkler yeah, he gave a bunch of interviews during lockdowns etc, so much good sense.
@@MrGiannimarinucci yep I reckon I watched them all too! Can't get too much of him.
Great video! In that Doc Severinsen clip near the end, are the shoulders going up each time instead of releasing the wedge grip? IOW a “topping-off” breath instead of a full breath each time (steps 1-5 of the wedge)?
19:54 «Don't even think about your diaphragm. Think about breathing properly and the diaphragm will function.» That's it. Thanks Bobby. Thanks Mike. 🙏
The Greatest!
Bobby. By the time you get all those steps done,the song will be over already.lol.Best Wishes.
Only if your never understand them.
The great Bobby Shew
Played for Buddy Rich for 18 months. was fired 26 times
Composed Red Snapper. Love that tune.
"Where there's tremendous arrogance, you're looking at the superficial side of insecurity"
--Bobby Shew
HEY I was in a big band that went to Australia with Bobby. 👍🏼👍🏼
👍
Thank you!
It’s compressed air pushed up by the diaphragm. Take a breath and lift and push. Same muscles and physical activity used to sing. Don’t complicate it, just do it 🤷♂️🤪👍🎶🕺🏴🇬🇧
Nope, its not easy imo. If you tell someone to just "push" it will most likely not be optimal. This method ensures that you are breathing and compressing correctly. I've been playing for many many years, but this video really enhanced the way i could compress air, even though i felt like i was giving it everything before.
@@hiimrezgaming9885 yes it is now shut up, I’ve been doing it for years as well as 🤷♂️🤪
I truly enjoy Bobby who is truly one of the greats in music, but he is wrong when he says that the diaphragm is a membrane and NOT a muscle. It is a thin muscle and is listed as a MUSCLE in all literature about anatomy. This diaphragm muscle is what does the work of moving the lungs by compression. People can breathe (regular intake and output) on and on, all without much involvement of the other thoracic muscles like the abdominals, or various other "core" section muscles. He is right that there are both voluntary and involuntary muscle contractions and that extreme actions require extra actions by anatomy. These actions are controlled by very lower sections of our brain area, which operate to do things like keeping the heart beating, sweating, having hairs stand up on the skin, doing a "shrug" motion in the shoulders area, or taking regular breaths. and yes, the other muscles can really become involved and help when massive pressure is needed.
Great insights about the "never raise shoulders" stuff. I agree that we need to follow natural motions, and simply do not ARTIFICIALLY use motions that are not needed or natural. One need not PREVENT natural adjusting motions of things like shoulders or abdominals. Your body mostly knows how to move around to accomplish needed actions.
Mr Shew, the diaphragm IS a MUSCLE, not a "membrane." It is the primary and vastly dominant breathing muscle.
The intercostal (rib) muscles assist the diaphragm. Two neck muscles, the sternocleidomasoid and scalenes muscles help elevate the ribs, and thus assist the intercostals. Other muscles that contribute to breathing are the serratus anterior, pectoralis major and pectoralis minor, trapezius, latissimus dorsi, erector spinae, iliocostalis, quadratus lumborum, serratus posterior superior, serratus posterior inferior, levatores costarum, transversus thoracis, and subclavius muscles.
The rectus abdomini and transverse abdominus muscles support the diaphragm, as well as provide compression and expelling force, ie, breath support.
I'm a trumpet player, a competing weightlifter, have studied yoga breathing, and have extensive academic and practical knowledge of anatomy and physiology,
Doesn't really change what he's saying about the wedge breath and how it can help with brass playing.
You may be "a trumpet player, a competing weightlifter, have studied yoga breathing, and have extensive academic and practical knowledge of anatomy and physiology," but you lack humility.
@@IndianOutlaw1870 you lack a brain.
Breath in through your navel, breath out as if you're steaming up a window pane to write your name on.
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The diaphragm IS A MUSCLE!
WHO DOWN VOTES THIS!?!
Yeah, it seems crazy, but only 4 fools out of 17,000 views is pretty low!
Non Dunning Krugers
This is nothing else than YOGA breathing.. known by yogis for centuries.
That's also what he calls it
Yeah genius. He says that a hundred times.
So? I don’t think he’s breaking any copyright laws. Bobby explains it better than any of the numerous yoga books I’ve read since Maynard Ferguson said that was his approach.
No. Man was never on all fours 🤷♂️🤪👍🏴
No. Air VELOCITY is NOT the determination of pitch played. The embouchure controls pitch. The air pressure controls dynamics.
This video is a complexification of a simple concept of exhalation effort to control the air pressure.