The "Straight Line Approach" by Charlie Porter
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- Trumpeter, Charlie Porter, demonstrates the "Straight Line Approach" to help trumpeters learn to play with absolute connection between notes, thus improving the overall efficiency and sound on the trumpet.
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Charlie I haven't played in 24 years and just picked it up again. Trying to start fresh with good habits. Your videos are excellent! Very informative. Thanks for sharing.
thanx Charlie...you are a natural born teacher...I have only had one other realtime teacher that has your ability to cut thru the B.S. and pare it down so succinctly. 63 years old, retired and getting back into my horn and guitar...Peace !!!
Charlie, this was one of the most informative tutorials ever! The Arban charateristics study and approach was mind-blowing as well as the mouthpiece buzzing. Thanks so much!
Fantastic lesson and clear explanation. Great to hear a bit of your playing too. Thanks so much for putting this out there for us trumpeters. Love the summary at the end - very helpful.
Great Video Charlie.I am 60 in Sydney starting out on my yamaha trumpet.Thanks
Always very informative but you make it look easy :) Thanks for sharing the knowledge/wisdom.
Day 1 of learning trumpet! glad to have found you mate... your teaching makes sense!
Wish me luck. Peace
Wow ! Great Job Charlie !! Thank you for your lessons !!
The fact that he can do on purpose what people try not to do on accident is actually kind of insane to me. That lip control, and this was him in 2012. His buzzing videos are insane and I love every second
He has insane aperture control
Thanks for this vid. It's a really big revelation in my trumpet playing. ;)
This video made a lot sense . Thank you 😎
You are so good with these tips. Thanks you Charlie !
This is brilliant!
Charlie you're awesome! Trumpet makes sense now and I instantly played with more flexibility
very nice tone, great approach, I studied Trumpet in College (U of Miami) and played for 35 years.....you really have a nice conceptual approach !
I always wondered how guys could slur intervals and partials like that using the horn. All my instructors had me practice intervals but never HOW, mechanically. I used to spend hours every day practicing slotting every note individually and reaching a physical limit.There's a hard limit when your mechanics are wrong. Man, I wish I had this video back in college, i might have gone on to be a professional trumpet player
Inspiring and many problems solved for me and your PDF is also very hand clawing my way back up the ladder of Understanding.
Kind regards,
Cy
Many thanks professor Porter.
Hey Charlie! Complete new. Haven't even got my horn yet! But you are making a great job in the explanation.... I'll sure be back when I recive my horn!! Have a great summer! thanks
Hey Johnny, how's your playing?
THANK YOU! Thank You for taking the time to SHARE knowledge
TY Charlie, I love your instruction vids. I am self learning and these tips really help me progress.
Awesome video!
Very good lesson!
You are a great teacher, many thanks!
Thank you for all your videos. They've been more than helpful..
Charlie, in his Trumpet Method (3 books), Vizzutti has the glissando on mouthpiece as part of his warmup. He gliss from G in staff up one octave and then down to pedal G and play the pedal stronger.
Rock that Olds Ambassador!
Nice playing, and good advice.
Thank you. I need a good reinforced explanation of what I am doing in my practice.
Brilliantly explained.
Totally Brilliant - I learned so much from this Thank You
Thanks for the great video. Very useful tips!
Hi Charlie, been following You many years, Thanks for that!
What you say here is something that is my style playing in Chet Baker ideom!
Lessen to Chet he playd with this "falls" also, and so do I , can here it on my recordings haha!
Thank you very much for your lesson
Trombone and tuba player, still helped my jazz
thank you so much, im a beginner and that helped a lot.
This is excellent!!! very useful in my playing....Thanks !!
excellent lesson thank you
thanks CP.... super insightful!
Can you make a video or give a tip on how to center your embrochure? I play slightly to the right on my top lip and my bottom lip doesn't move. My range is usually a fluent major C. On some days I can play a major G. Tips?
Wow, what a great video. This is exactly what I am (or maybe was) struggling with as a beginner. I will definitely add you to my Skype contacts when I can afford it.
Thanks!
Thanks, it helps so much !
Thank you for these videos. They help a lot!! :)
Thx buddy! You are really a great help for me. i Own U.
Nice to hear you play an an instrument that sounds like a trumpet. I don’t get the Monette thing.
Charlie, what brand or brands of trumpet do you play? The reason I ask, I'm writing a novel about a young big band singer who also plays Bb trumpet. I've been using your video to teach me how a this character might look and sound while playing. My novel is set during the late 1930s, so any suggestions about popular brands used back in those days would be appreciated. Thanks in advance for your answer.
Becky Morton did you finish writing the novel?
How's the novel? :D
Very helpfull your everything ,greetings from Berlin too.
Well put!!
I'm in 9th grade and have been playing since 5th. I can a high C most of the time and just want to increase range and endurance. Should I just continue with my routine of long tones? Any help would be appreciated thanks!
Hey man, how's your playing?
I've only been playing for a few months (I played clarinet previously for a few years) and I'm wondering how you've made the switch in notes so quickly? Is it something that you become able to do with time or is it something that I'm doing incorrectly?
a lot of buzzing and practicing with your mouthpiece as he showed in this video, practice slurs as much as you can.
What kind of trumpet is that?
wow!
You are excellent!
GREAT video! And is that an Olds Ambassador trumpet from the good old LA times you are playing in this vid?
thanks very much :-)
Good morning Charlie, I subscribe to your videos. I can buzz with the connections the way you teach, but i don't get the in-between tones on the horn
Just great 😀
does it mean lips are not supposed to slide on the mouthpiece when playing very low and slide back to high notes? Specially my bottom lip tends to do that...
How do you prevent the breaks from happing when buzzing the mouthpiece?
This conflicts with James Morrison's idea of range where he says that changing the size of the aperture to get to higher notes is limiting as you can only make it small or big , but using air to control pitch is a better way?
It does not conflict. Charlie and Morrison talked about this when they got together. Morrison's statement rather refers to notes above high c. For notes above high c to high e you have to give VERY SLIGHTLY more air.
However, they are basically talking about the exact same thing. Remember: It is ALWAYS about balance. Balance is key.
Think logic as well: You can make the aperture only so small how you can create it. There are ways to mechanically be able to create a smaller aperture though, e.g. practicing whisper tones.
This being said, at some point (above high c-e) you have to increase the air SLIGHTLY but while keeping the same small aperture (same aperture size -> slightly more air -> faster air -> higher pitch / tongue level included of course).
But we mustn't forget that the embouchure support muscles have to hold the small and focused aperture in place in the upper register.
However, using MORE air IN ORDER TO GET HIGHER is the worst thing you can do. Morrison would definitely agree with that. Just don't confuse air supply with abusing the air to ascend. You have to be able to play soft up there (especially when you build the range at first).
Long story short:
Result is the same. Charlie focuses a bit more on aperture control because most people get this wrong. Morrison is playing in the same way, but just uses a slightly different perspective (yes, it's all about the air - assuming the lips are set correctly and can hold the aperture with correct form).
So, be careful with Morrison's advice. If you're having problems, it can be really be misinterpreted. Really do not use more air to get higher, in general.
Hope this helps.
All the best,
Jens
I wonder who you say you wrote it with google translator, I'm from mexico, greetings!
Is it just me, or when you set your embouchure it's different from the way you showed us?
what is the name and size mouthpiece you are using?
Hi, any good method to suggest? you say something about a method from someone I did not get the name at minute 12. (I'm learning cornet BTW)
Very useful video, thanks
I thought size of the aperture correlates to the volume of the sound. The speed of the air correlates to the pitch of the note..
originally thought anyways. thanks for clearing this up, Charlie!
Thank you so much, I had an airy sound and now its gone :D
If anyone can help, please read this. So I've had a problem for a while. I have almost no endurance, and my high notes topped off a while ago. I'm starting to think I may use pressure, but I don't know how to tell whether or not I do so. In the lower register, I sound great, and notes cone out clean and nice up until the d in the staff. everything after that is a little more "strained" and tone quality slowly goes downhill from there. Sometimes when I try to do jumps to notes higher than the d, an ugly airy sound comes out with no note... I got my braces off about a month and a half ago, and I practice a lot. Does anyone have any ideas at to what my problem could be?
qdj252 So, I also got my braces off two years ago. For me, it literally took a full year to get back to the skill level before I had them taken off. My suggestion (if you haven't done it already, seeing as your comment is from 6 months ago) is to do a lot of long tones. Like, a lot. Do them on the notes you're good at, work your way up, and when it gets to a note you don't sound good at, just keep doing long tones on it. Hope this helps, or you've already recovered from the braces :)
Agent Forte I have been doing tons of long tones, thanks! In fact, I just needed time. This year, My range went from a high c to a high g above high c, although inconsistent. still though, big improvement. One thing to help you, if you need it, try lip slurs and two octave scales. Use your full range to expand it.
Charlie, what is on your upper lip? It looks like a corn(s)? Should any trumpet player develop it too?
What is meant by "Pedal" C for the low note? Must be lower than Middle C on a Piano, right? But where? Thanks.
He probably means the C one octave below the middle C.
OK and thank you.
on trumpet pedal c is two octaves below middle c
Great and thank you!
Pedal C is one octave below the low C right below the staff. The C below that one is double pedal C, and it is a false pedal. However, Pedal C is actually the fundamental note of the C harmonic series.
are you buzzing through your mouithpiece, or just 'blowing' ?
why are tou looking up the straight line approach when you cant even play a low c?
and its buzzing
mucle guru *you
just blowing...buzzing isn't necessary when playing the trumpet. If you try to buzz, the lips will be too tight. Buzzing the mouthpiece can be very useful for learning to support the air and focus the lips, but you must know that when you put the horn to your face that there is a lot more resistance than with just the mouthpiece. So, you don't need to create extra resistance, just blow with the lips close enough, but not touching, and a sound will be created and you will have better airflow...hence, a larger more vibrant sound.
Charlie Porter you cant just blow and expect a buzzing sound
mucle guru You're right...I don't expect a "buzzing sound" and that IS exactly what you get when you try to buzz into a mouthpiece. Physics don't lie. Its called a "standing wave." That is how we make a sound on the trumpet. On a mouthpiece you must bring the lips closer together to create a sound. If you don't believe me, so be it, but it is what it is.
May I ask, is there a correct age for developing the diaphragm for children. or any "no no's?
Thank you s much for your help,
Regards,
Cy
Wow I played for years and no one ever explained this technique.
Olds Ambassados trumpet 50's + Monette Mouthpiece B2S3
Yeah, those old Ambassadors have a tone to die for.
exactly ;)
Wonder if this guy comming jamaica soon...jah know.
thank you
Thanks from The Netherlands. My conclusion is that unfortunately much nonsense is told in this world. Especially about the only use of air pressure to change the pitch. Luckily I have not admitted to and watched your videos.
Lmao that phone tho
(It turned out that i was pressing the trumpet to my lips way to hard.)
Everytime I practice I get frustrated, still don't know what's going on
I am trying to do this but my range is dropping :o
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(sigh) I have a lot of practicing to do. I suppose it will pay off later.
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looks to be a monette.
Unfortunately today it has that hateful Monette sound. Those trumpets have a monotonous sound. Poor Miles, turns in his grave
Dat monnette prana status
Charlie, Man you may have just solved 20+ years of frustration and impasse regarding my playing. Excellent info, well thought out...had to subscribe. This stuff is GREAT!!! Kudos Charlie, well done!
Ditto.
Maybe I'll ask the singers at church to "slot" the notes and not "slide" or "swoop" within a lyric.
What a great video. Such a simple approach to explaining how trumpet playing works. Sure wish someone had explained it to me this way back about 40 years ago, when I was struggling to figure out how to play a trumpet. This is going to help a lot of wanna-be trumpeters. Well done, Mr. Porter!
Thank you you are a world class teacher.
Yep!!!
😵✨👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾🎺 revelations! My tongue arch still a work in progress. Never used to think of it at all while playing.
Very good video Charlie, It's so good to hear someone who knows what they are talking about and also being a great player.We as trumpet players are always over complicating things. I also like your Video on Pedal tones and have somewhat adapted it to part of my playing. Air and Vibrations that's what it's all about :)
Simply the best 👏👏👏🎺🎺🎺
The best trumpet tip’s I’ve ever heard!.
Still there are no short cuts Charlie is also very talented 👏👏🎺🎶🎺
Starting playing after many years at age 50+ » Absolutely helpful. Great!
Ottmar Kögel me too, this helped me better than all 2 teachers I had 😨
Congrats man!probably the best trumpet lesson I ever have. You are a contemporary JB.Arban: ) thanks!
Music college (many years ago) did not cover your great detail. Many thanks you have got me back on my feet.
I am a sax player trying to play trumpet seriously, and this explains things so well... it shocked me. I thought i knew how wind instruments worked quite well, but apparently not. Thank you, I should be paying you at least an year's worth of lessons or something lol I will use this knowledge to get super successful and come back with a huge check to give you!
Excellent explanation and demonstration. It may be also helpful to think of going from G to C as a "reverse lip bend" on both the mouthpiece and horn.
thanks Charlie, really great advice, really works.
Yay Alan Vizutti ! Glad to hear the mention :) He's so cool.