Yes please do report back. Just see what you can learn and try discover the easiest vibration without too much force. The challenge is that all the parts are interconnected and influence one another. Just realize that a tight throat and lip squeezing are symptoms of an imbalance between the air flow and the opening in your lips that the air flows through. If you squeeze or choke you have to blow harder to keep the air flowing past your lips. But, if you blow harder then you have to choke, press and squeeze to keep the air from blowing your lips apart. Try to find the balance between the easy, free flow of air and the gentle touch of the lips on that very free air stream. This is actually a very gentle and refined skill so be patient.
This is the holy grail for trumpet at 15:40. So why lip buzz? So why mouthpiece buzz? You take the trumpet off the face in high register and the lips are not vibrating. More detailed explanation and demonstration on this topic please Steve!
Yes exactly. Why are we buzzing the mouthpiece?? You are right. I should do some videos on the controversial topic of buzzing. As soon as I can find some time 🤪 Thanks for your comment.
Cảm ơn bạn vì đã chia sẻ, mình tự chơi kèn trumpet vài năm nhưng không được ai chia sẻ tận tình, tuy mình không hiểu tiếng nước bạn nhưng mình học bạn qua cử chỉ và hành động.. cảm ơn bạn
Cảm ơn bạn đã bình luận của bạn. Tôi rất tiếc là tôi không thể nói tiếng Việt (tôi đã sử dụng internet để dịch câu trả lời này sang ngôn ngữ của bạn) nhưng tôi rất ấn tượng rằng bạn có thể học chỉ bằng cách quan sát!
The section that begins at 15:40 is important because that is how actual playing should be done. The earlier 'mouthpiece buzzing' section (time 6:00) is about doing a 'physical exercise' for learning how to control the lips - it isn't for real playing.
Thanks Jay. Explaining trumpet mechanics is always challenging and it is almost impossible to keep players from getting wrong ideas about fundamental things. I have actually been thinking seriously about making some videos exploring "basic" exercises like buzzing that are widely misunderstood and trying to interpret them so they make sense in terms of what happens when we actually play the trumpet, but I'm not yet convinced if my opinions would bring light or, just cause more confusion. Thanks for your input!
15.40 is great - i try this with different dynamics and pitches regularly…do you think the lips should buzz sympathetically at all volumes and throughout the range?
@@jazzerfred I would think so. Makes sense to me that physics would dictate that increased energy in would result in more push back from the horn, so even in the high register the lips would be buzzing sympathetically, if properly relaxed.
Thanks! I've found that I make small adjustments - mostly involving the upper lip - as I move up and down the register. Is that ok? If I don't adjust (it happens unconsciously, I guess), the sound quality suffers.
Hi Javier, Actually you must discern for yourself if it is "OK." The fact is that there are so many individual and precise mechanisms involved that I could only answer your question accurately if I could see and hear you play. Then I would get a better sense of how all everything is working together. Fortunately your ears are telling you when the quality of your sound excellent or is suffering so, if you aim at maintaining good sound without any strain or struggle, then what you are doing is fine. A simple way of thinking about it is: "If it feels good and it sounds good it IS good," so don't over think but do observe, notice and remember those little things your body instinctively learns how to do to create beautiful musical qualities. I hope this helps 🙏
If you don’t blow(because I will recommend that the trumpet is no wind instrument.. it’s a compressive instrument) Sighing . warm air. You will never have anything in the way and always be free…. don’t blow sigh….
Yes but..... Let's not get lost in semantics when trying vainly to describe sensations and coordinations that must be experienced directly. Playing trumpet well is a "bel canto" experience but even in singing or speaking there is a pressure differential between behind and beyond the vocal folds. The trumpet works in the same way of course but.... requires much less volume of air. Yes...."sigh" with continuous follow through and momentum ...... Thanks for watching.
I really appreciate this video. I'm currently struggling with the first two: glottis and lip squeezing. I'll work on these and report back!
Yes please do report back. Just see what you can learn and try discover the easiest vibration without too much force. The challenge is that all the parts are interconnected and influence one another. Just realize that a tight throat and lip squeezing are symptoms of an imbalance between the air flow and the opening in your lips that the air flows through. If you squeeze or choke you have to blow harder to keep the air flowing past your lips. But, if you blow harder then you have to choke, press and squeeze to keep the air from blowing your lips apart. Try to find the balance between the easy, free flow of air and the gentle touch of the lips on that very free air stream. This is actually a very gentle and refined skill so be patient.
This is the holy grail for trumpet at 15:40. So why lip buzz? So why mouthpiece buzz? You take the trumpet off the face in high register and the lips are not vibrating. More detailed explanation and demonstration on this topic please Steve!
Yes exactly. Why are we buzzing the mouthpiece?? You are right. I should do some videos on the controversial topic of buzzing. As soon as I can find some time 🤪 Thanks for your comment.
Cảm ơn bạn vì đã chia sẻ, mình tự chơi kèn trumpet vài năm nhưng không được ai chia sẻ tận tình, tuy mình không hiểu tiếng nước bạn nhưng mình học bạn qua cử chỉ và hành động.. cảm ơn bạn
Cảm ơn bạn đã bình luận của bạn. Tôi rất tiếc là tôi không thể nói tiếng Việt (tôi đã sử dụng internet để dịch câu trả lời này sang ngôn ngữ của bạn) nhưng tôi rất ấn tượng rằng bạn có thể học chỉ bằng cách quan sát!
The section that begins at 15:40 is important because that is how actual playing should be done.
The earlier 'mouthpiece buzzing' section (time 6:00) is about doing a 'physical exercise' for learning how to control the lips - it isn't for real playing.
Thanks Jay. Explaining trumpet mechanics is always challenging and it is almost impossible to keep players from getting wrong ideas about fundamental things. I have actually been thinking seriously about making some videos exploring "basic" exercises like buzzing that are widely misunderstood and trying to interpret them so they make sense in terms of what happens when we actually play the trumpet, but I'm not yet convinced if my opinions would bring light or, just cause more confusion. Thanks for your input!
15.40 is great - i try this with different dynamics and pitches regularly…do you think the lips should buzz sympathetically at all volumes and throughout the range?
@@jazzerfred I would think so. Makes sense to me that physics would dictate that increased energy in would result in more push back from the horn, so even in the high register the lips would be buzzing sympathetically, if properly relaxed.
Thanks! I've found that I make small adjustments - mostly involving the upper lip - as I move up and down the register. Is that ok? If I don't adjust (it happens unconsciously, I guess), the sound quality suffers.
Hi Javier, Actually you must discern for yourself if it is "OK." The fact is that there are so many individual and precise mechanisms involved that I could only answer your question accurately if I could see and hear you play. Then I would get a better sense of how all everything is working together. Fortunately your ears are telling you when the quality of your sound excellent or is suffering so, if you aim at maintaining good sound without any strain or struggle, then what you are doing is fine. A simple way of thinking about it is: "If it feels good and it sounds good it IS good," so don't over think but do observe, notice and remember those little things your body instinctively learns how to do to create beautiful musical qualities. I hope this helps 🙏
If you don’t blow(because I will recommend that the trumpet is no wind instrument.. it’s a compressive instrument) Sighing . warm air. You will never have anything in the way and always be free…. don’t blow sigh….
Yes but..... Let's not get lost in semantics when trying vainly to describe sensations and coordinations that must be experienced directly. Playing trumpet well is a "bel canto" experience but even in singing or speaking there is a pressure differential between behind and beyond the vocal folds. The trumpet works in the same way of course but.... requires much less volume of air. Yes...."sigh" with continuous follow through and momentum ...... Thanks for watching.