#1 Proven Trumpet Course To Quickly Improve High Notes, Power, and Endurance! trumpetsizzle.com Did you know that I created what has now become the NUMBER 1 Embouchure Improvement Course Of All Time? It's true! Why not fact check it? Kurt Thompson's 16 Week Upper Register Course began in 2009 and has now (2021) been taught to well over 1000 students. Almost half of those students took the course live each week with Kurt and the other half did it on their own with the video tutorials! FACT CHECK: When trying to determine what is the BEST anything today, look for reviews, but BE CAREFUL: Written reviews can be faked, right? Still, many times we only have written reviews to go on at places like Amazon. REAL VIDEO REVIEWS BY REAL PEOPLE that got the product or became the student is the TRUE WAY to 100% fact check something. Currently there are tons of video reviews by students from 15 years of age up to 88 years of age that have had tremendous success with Kurt Thompson's Course! CHECK HERE: th-cam.com/play/PL0PQUYopKD-L2Vj0awGJK9NNY96hVFaTY.html The other method would be cash sales. NOBODY comes close to matching the record setting sales of the 16 Week Upper Register Course! NADA! If you find someone who tries to make that claim, check out their student video reviews with the student doing some playing...THEY DON'T EXIST! CAREFUL: Be leery of trumpet teachers, courses, programs that have a lot of celebrity trumpet players giving an endorsement! Almost ALWAYS that endorsement is paid or because they are friends with the teacher. Think about it: If Wayne Bergeron gave a thumbs up on some teacher's course, did he actually go through the entire course and test it out? YOU KNOW HE DID NOT! His friend showed him the course. He browsed through it. Said: Hmmm ok, looks good! BE LEERY when you see that. Nothing wrong with friends helping each other out, but for YOU the student, you can easily be misled by putting too much weight on these famous trumpet friends. I am happy to have you try to find a course that competes with the 16 Week Upper Register Course. Don't bother trying to find one that supersedes it. That won't happen. However, if you can find one that has some decent competition, leave a comment. Decent competition does not mean written reviews, celebrity reviews, or even people just talking about it. It means legit music students PLAYING and DEMONSTRATING the success they had while taking the course! You find that? Let us know! INTERESTED? You should be! Did you know you can take a small sample of the course just to get an idea if it is for you? It is only a sample. Don't expect anything from the sample, but to give you an idea of how the course is. CHECK OUT THE SAMPLE: trumpetsizzle.com/products/sample-week-11-new-revised-upper-register-course-for-all-brass-musicians-2019 Speak italiana, español, portugués? The 16 Week Upper Register Course has been fully translated to Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. Know anyone who would learn better with their native language in the subtitles? trumpetsizzle.com/collections/trumpet-lessons-translated-to-italiana-espanol-portugues Fact check, Be Skeptical, but in the end, you will come back to the 16 WEEK UPPER REGISTER COURSE for trumpet and all brass musicians as the NUMBER 1 embouchure improvement course on the planet!
www.trumpetsizzle.com/trumpetcourse.html Hey don't quit band just because you got braces or having other troubles. Don't give up or get depressed because I have a brand new course just for beginners and intermediate brass players. Especially for 5th and 6th graders, but equally as important for junior high, middle school and high school band musicians too. At least one thing is on your mind: YOU DON'T WANNA SUCK!!! Check out my new course at my site: www.trumpetsizzle.com/trumpetcourse.html
SCOOBY DOO! GET YOUR CHALLENGE TO ME: FOR TRUMPET: th-cam.com/video/ZffZr4n7j10/w-d-xo.html FOR TROMBONE: th-cam.com/video/uLb4mUwGAtU/w-d-xo.html This message approved by Kurt Thompson!
I've been playing for only 16 months and can get a high A, sometimes a high B on my standard Yamaha 14B4 mouthpiece and was recently leant a Bach 1 1/2C. I found the Bach much more comfortable to play with and now I find my Yamaha mouthpiece easier to play with. At the end of the day, everyone has different lips, thin or thick and it's up to each person to find a mouthpiece they find comfortable playing. As you say, find the perfect mouthpiece for you. Thank you for an extremely informative video and for exploding the myth.
Neil Saunders 17s. That’s what I used in college in pep band. I used the baritone equivalent in Drum Corps. I really like them. The story goes, as it was told to me, that these mouthpieces were originally made to help people with braces play with less pressure and pain. People without braces started digging them too. You sound great!
Very true Kurt, I've also played on a wide range of mouthpieces, Schilke 14A4A, Vincent bach 3C, 1C, 5C, 7C, and 5B, and a Stork 3E, experimenting for what the best mouthpieces would be for me. I've found that being a high school musician (we have marching band, jazz band, concert band, and orchestra) that the mouthpiece can effect range and endurance, but in order to really have great range and endurance you have to develop it yourself, you can't just pop in a shallow mouthpiece with a small rim and expect it to give you the range and flexibility you want, you have to develop it yourself, I play lead at Santa Fe High School in Texas, and am principal trumpet player outside of jazz band in my school. Even still Im not just blessed with the talent, I had to work to be as good as I am even practicing so much as 3 and 4 hours a day. It's definitely not all about the mouthpiece though a shallow mouthpiece can improve your range a step or two, I play on a 3C outside of jazz band and a 3E in jazz band and can play a double F on my 3C and a double A on my 3E and am still working my range up as a junior in highschool.
folks go here :www.trumpetsizzle.com improving range is a process not a collection of watching videos. I have almost 600 videos. You can watch them all, but....YOU WILL HAVE MISSED THE PROCESS involved in my course...it's a must! You skip it? NO HIGH NOTES, NO ENDURANCE!
Well, I don't know about anyone else, but a mouthpiece that has "facilitates high register" in its online description definitely makes it easier to play higher, and as a result I can play higher. Maybe I missed the point of the video.
I’ve used a 3c for everything (jazz, concert band, marching band) up until recently when I bought a Hammond Design 7s and it makes a huge difference with the upper register stuff
Actually it's about the PURSUIT of high notes....and not just trumpet...ALL brass players. There are only a minority of brass players around the world that have mastered the upper register and only a fraction of those that have mastered the EXTREME upper register....the way it is!
I play on a Schilke 12 and I can get a high E-Eb but it's kinda sharp. I recently bought a jelly screamer mouthpiece for my pep band games and found my range increased 3 more notes and I found that I can play those notes for much longer periods of time without losing my strength in my embouchure. I think you an hit those high notes on any mouthpiece but the "cheater" mouthpieces just make it easier to hit those notes
I switched to euphonium in high school and I disagree when people say a shallow mouthpiece plays higher notes. when I switched, I was able to play higher than I ever played on the trumpet, hell when I started out it was actually harder to hit lower notes. so I think that the 1 1/2 c mouthpiece you are using IS why you were able to play the high note, since it's bigger than what highschoolers generally use.
right because I know that there are some sizes that are perfect for certain embouchures. but I do however know that the size of a mouthpiece can affect not just the note, but the tone as well. If anything, it's probably more about what type of mouthpiece feels the most comfortable, but for me, the bigger the better.
Over the summer I played baritone and the rim and cup being big was harder to play in the high register, But after a while it got easier and easier to play high to the point that I could play higher than my trumpet. After playing the baritone i tended to overblown on the trumpet while tying to hit high notes.(I currently play on a 3c/5c) I want to know if switching to a bigger rim and deeper mouthpiece like the 1c or a bigger bore trumpet will be a good switch for me. Thank you,
Well, if you make the switch, do one or the other, but not both. A smaller mp into a larger bore horn like I do, or a large mp into a medium bore horn like the 8310z
hi, I'm using a bach 3c since 3 years ago and only able reach high C. Can you suggest some ways to strongten high notes playing with a round sound (but not as high as double C).. thanks:)
I can't play very high, but I mean I am in 8th grade and can hit a E flat above the staff on a good day, so I guess I am good for now... (I started in 6th)
I was at a Maynard concert when someone challenged Stan Mark about his mouthpiece. Jet stream. He shut them down and made them look like a fool. Great video. Your a beast.
It's true. Once upon a time, I was able to play High E above the staff (sometimes F but it came out eh) with a Bach 1C on a larger bore (.462) trumpet. I never went higher than that E, but it is doable.
Practice and Practice some more. But practice right. I had a schilike 22 in High School and belted out high notes all the time. But I did have a great private teacher and practiced the right way. I've lost a little bit of my ability over the years but I don't play as much as I used to. Also Switched to a Schilijke 15B, which just feels so much better to me than the 22.
Nobody was born to play 3RD part! A comment below suggests he doesn't really have the talent which is wrong thinking. Everybody that has completed my 16 Week Upper Register Program has gained at least 4 notes!!!! If you have the time and a little bit of money to invest, your life will change forever
You said the bach 1.5 c makes life more difficult. why? I'm new to trumpeting. I picked up an inexpensive trumpet. It came with a #13 J.Marcinkiewicz. Will it be easier for me now as a beginner to go with a lower number mouth piece? or should I just keep working with this one and get good with it? Some people have told me if it's comfortable keep it, but I have nothing to compare it to so I don't know if it's comfortable or less comfortable than anything else.
H´Kurt, very nice clip from You on this subjekt, I have ask myself also during years, what MPiece will give me in high note capacity, no I know from Your test. I stick to my 7C and start practice from there in higher notes, Tnx Kurt. My trumpet story is like this: start lessen to Dizzy in the 50th, couldent play hi like him, I saw myself as a looser, but one day came my saver rawmodel it was Chesney Baker, his recordings over the years, no high note playing and I play in that ideom since then. But hearing You today I will give Hi note playing a chance in coming days, thank´s to You Kurt! Johnny D Bergh Hornman on You Tube
Hey Johnny, you are on the right track, but 7c may or may not be the best for you, yet you still need to get the chops in order first. If you want a fast track for incredible chops you really should check out my 4 month program where most brass players add 4 notes to their range! www.trumpetsizzle.com
I use a 5c for concert music and can hit all the same notes I can on my warburton 6m7* that I use for jazz, albeit with more difficulty. The mouthpiece only supports range, doesn't give it.
Thanks for this Kurt. I don't play in your register, but this has been very helpful to know for just playing up to top C,D and E's. Can you give any tips on how to get more "zing" and sparkle on the sound, or how to combat the deadness on some high notes?
What do you tell people who, (for lack of a better term) lost there chops? For example, being able to play in the double register and going through an embouchure shift and almost completely losing it?
Well, a bach 1 1/2 E or bach 3 E would be close, but the rim still has quite a bite on it compared to the sanders. But try the above. The neil sanderss has a very wide rim at least as wide as a Bach 1 1/2 or wider
i play on a schilke 20....havent played in a while...will it be easier to hit the upper register on this mouthpiece or should another one be more helpful?
and you are so proud that I am sure you posted that on your channel, right? Because if you didn't, that would mean you are a lying sack of shite, but...I am sure you did. I will go check.
Alright Kurt I'm 15 I've been playing for 4 years and practice my ass off (pardon my French) though I still use that piece of overpriced crap recommend to me in 6th grade and ended up owning it I still play on a Yamaha 11b4 the student model but I still manage to have a range of a double g but it isn't very strong. Will changing my horn and mouthpiece help? And if so what do you recommend for lead big band playing
Sounds like you are already off to a great start. I didn't have a double G at 15, but I was auditioning and making All-State and other advanced ensembles. Yes a better horn and mp combo likely will help, but you probably need to work on other stuff. I don't even see any videos of you playing at all on your channel and that is not a good sign my friend. Practice and put some videos up for us to watch!
I'm in 8th grade and I picked to play trumpet 🎺 because my teacher said I was playing high note (I forgot what it was called I'm not she if it was a double C) but my teacher said I was very good at it. The ting is that I only know how to play high notes. .. I think it's hard for me to play low notes. I just started playing 2 weeks ago.
Great video myth buster.I generally use a bach 1 1/4C and I can go to double C and a little higher at a softer sound and I get a really nice tone, including playable pedal tones. I also have a Schilke 6A4A, and even though I slot much easier,(too easy) on the way up and down I still don't get any meaningful extension to my range and the tone is not nearly as nice as my 1 1/4C. For my playing style a cross between Arturo Sandoval and Chet Baker, I like my 1 1/4C. I bought the shilke back in the 70s when Bill Chase was popular based on the same myth you are busting in this video and I never played well with it and have hardly used it. I would like to try something even deeper and larger when I get around to visiting a music store. P.S. my trumpet is an unheard of and unidentifiable Halifax ML (.459), I have no idea who made it, I bought it in 1984 looking to upgrade from my student model Olds Ambassador. I would love to move up to an Adams A4 and see what happens. BTW, I just returned to playing after 3-4 years off for a long term illness and I have only been practicing a month using Arturo's first book with the range exercises and it works well for me. and I don't have any more talent than the average guy, I am just a fan of hard work all my life.
I bought a so called cheater mouthpiece it was a jettone vbc (the one bill chase used) and my range improved by one not the main difference I have noticed between playing on that and my normal 3c is that you do not get as tired when you play on the vbc
Nice complements, but one problem: I checked out your channel and it appears anonymous. In fact, you could be Rowuk and just trying to fuck with me. Reply back with your REAL NAME and some playing vids
If Kurt was a runner he'd run a mile in under 4 minutes. I'll never do that and I don't think I'll ever get a double C either. Oh well - back to the jogging...
When Bach still catered to business players, the 7c was a better mouthpiece, it was smaller, the rim was friendlier, and the mouthpiece was SMALLER than todays Bach mouthpieces. It wasn't one in a thousand professional playing the 7c on the job, but significantly more at that time. The Bach mouthpieces of the time were just as inconsistent as they are today!
I'm a little skeptical, since I've seen a demonstration video of a really cheater way to hit high notes, and that was actually by putting essentially a "double reed" into one of the valve tuning slides, and then when they want to hit that high note, they will just make it look like they are preparing for a struggle, and hide the fact that they are pushing down a valve. Pushing down the valve would make the air pass through the "reed" in the tuning slide, and with just sheer air flow could obtain ridiculously high notes, but none of them with musical value. (Not really a double reed, more plastic type of a reed in some random noise maker) Also, out of boredom, I decided to check if you were actually playing a double C by using a tuner, and that sure as hell was a double C.
A cheater mouthpiece (commercially known as a screamer mouthpiece) is a mouthpiece designed with a shallow cup in order for the player to reach high notes with ease. The downside to these mouthpieces is that they have god-awful tone quality.
I don't really belive in the name cheater mouthpiece because think of this: You use a huge sledge hammer to drive in railroad ties , but you use a very small light weight hammer for driving in picture nails to hang pictures in your home. The smaller hammer is not a "cheater" hammer any more than a mouthpiece designed to play and sound great in the commercial world
#1 Proven Trumpet Course To Quickly Improve High Notes, Power, and Endurance! trumpetsizzle.com
Did you know that I created what has now become the NUMBER 1 Embouchure Improvement Course Of All Time? It's true! Why not fact check it? Kurt Thompson's 16 Week Upper Register Course began in 2009 and has now (2021) been taught to well over 1000 students. Almost half of those students took the course live each week with Kurt and the other half did it on their own with the video tutorials!
FACT CHECK: When trying to determine what is the BEST anything today, look for reviews, but BE CAREFUL: Written reviews can be faked, right? Still, many times we only have written reviews to go on at places like Amazon. REAL VIDEO REVIEWS BY REAL PEOPLE that got the product or became the student is the TRUE WAY to 100% fact check something.
Currently there are tons of video reviews by students from 15 years of age up to 88 years of age that have had tremendous success with Kurt Thompson's Course! CHECK HERE: th-cam.com/play/PL0PQUYopKD-L2Vj0awGJK9NNY96hVFaTY.html
The other method would be cash sales. NOBODY comes close to matching the record setting sales of the 16 Week Upper Register Course! NADA!
If you find someone who tries to make that claim, check out their student video reviews with the student doing some playing...THEY DON'T EXIST!
CAREFUL: Be leery of trumpet teachers, courses, programs that have a lot of celebrity trumpet players giving an endorsement! Almost ALWAYS that endorsement is paid or because they are friends with the teacher. Think about it: If Wayne Bergeron gave a thumbs up on some teacher's course, did he actually go through the entire course and test it out? YOU KNOW HE DID NOT! His friend showed him the course. He browsed through it. Said: Hmmm ok, looks good! BE LEERY when you see that. Nothing wrong with friends helping each other out, but for YOU the student, you can easily be misled by putting too much weight on these famous trumpet friends.
I am happy to have you try to find a course that competes with the 16 Week Upper Register Course. Don't bother trying to find one that supersedes it. That won't happen. However, if you can find one that has some decent competition, leave a comment. Decent competition does not mean written reviews, celebrity reviews, or even people just talking about it. It means legit music students PLAYING and DEMONSTRATING the success they had while taking the course! You find that? Let us know!
INTERESTED? You should be! Did you know you can take a small sample of the course just to get an idea if it is for you? It is only a sample. Don't expect anything from the sample, but to give you an idea of how the course is. CHECK OUT THE SAMPLE: trumpetsizzle.com/products/sample-week-11-new-revised-upper-register-course-for-all-brass-musicians-2019
Speak italiana, español, portugués? The 16 Week Upper Register Course has been fully translated to Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese. Know anyone who would learn better with their native language in the subtitles? trumpetsizzle.com/collections/trumpet-lessons-translated-to-italiana-espanol-portugues
Fact check, Be Skeptical, but in the end, you will come back to the 16 WEEK UPPER REGISTER COURSE for trumpet and all brass musicians as the NUMBER 1 embouchure improvement course on the planet!
www.trumpetsizzle.com/trumpetcourse.html Hey don't quit band just because you got braces or having other troubles. Don't give up or get depressed because I have a brand new course just for beginners and intermediate brass players. Especially for 5th and 6th graders, but equally as important for junior high, middle school and high school band musicians too. At least one thing is on your mind: YOU DON'T WANNA SUCK!!! Check out my new course at my site: www.trumpetsizzle.com/trumpetcourse.html
SCOOBY DOO! GET YOUR CHALLENGE TO ME: FOR TRUMPET: th-cam.com/video/ZffZr4n7j10/w-d-xo.html FOR TROMBONE: th-cam.com/video/uLb4mUwGAtU/w-d-xo.html This message approved by Kurt Thompson!
I've been playing for only 16 months and can get a high A, sometimes a high B on my standard Yamaha 14B4 mouthpiece and was recently leant a Bach 1 1/2C. I found the Bach much more comfortable to play with and now I find my Yamaha mouthpiece easier to play with.
At the end of the day, everyone has different lips, thin or thick and it's up to each person to find a mouthpiece they find comfortable playing. As you say, find the perfect mouthpiece for you.
Thank you for an extremely informative video and for exploding the myth.
Very nice to hear!
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Neil Saunders 17s. That’s what I used in college in pep band. I used the baritone equivalent in Drum Corps. I really like them. The story goes, as it was told to me, that these mouthpieces were originally made to help people with braces play with less pressure and pain. People without braces started digging them too. You sound great!
Thanks very much!
Very true Kurt, I've also played on a wide range of mouthpieces, Schilke 14A4A, Vincent bach 3C, 1C, 5C, 7C, and 5B, and a Stork 3E, experimenting for what the best mouthpieces would be for me. I've found that being a high school musician (we have marching band, jazz band, concert band, and orchestra) that the mouthpiece can effect range and endurance, but in order to really have great range and endurance you have to develop it yourself, you can't just pop in a shallow mouthpiece with a small rim and expect it to give you the range and flexibility you want, you have to develop it yourself, I play lead at Santa Fe High School in Texas, and am principal trumpet player outside of jazz band in my school. Even still Im not just blessed with the talent, I had to work to be as good as I am even practicing so much as 3 and 4 hours a day. It's definitely not all about the mouthpiece though a shallow mouthpiece can improve your range a step or two, I play on a 3C outside of jazz band and a 3E in jazz band and can play a double F on my 3C and a double A on my 3E and am still working my range up as a junior in highschool.
Keep up the good work.
folks go here :www.trumpetsizzle.com improving range is a process not a collection of watching videos. I have almost 600 videos. You can watch them all, but....YOU WILL HAVE MISSED THE PROCESS involved in my course...it's a must! You skip it? NO HIGH NOTES, NO ENDURANCE!
Well, I don't know about anyone else, but a mouthpiece that has "facilitates high register" in its online description definitely makes it easier to play higher, and as a result I can play higher. Maybe I missed the point of the video.
ummmm better go back and watch it again my friend
That was soo helpful because it actually clears those wrong notions from my head. I play the trumpet well and i struggle up to E below double C
I am glad it helped!
I’ve used a 3c for everything (jazz, concert band, marching band) up until recently when I bought a Hammond Design 7s and it makes a huge difference with the upper register stuff
I would like to check them out at some point
Yep. Trumpet playing is all about the high notes...
Actually it's about the PURSUIT of high notes....and not just trumpet...ALL brass players. There are only a minority of brass players around the world that have mastered the upper register and only a fraction of those that have mastered the EXTREME upper register....the way it is!
I play on a Schilke 12 and I can get a high E-Eb but it's kinda sharp. I recently bought a jelly screamer mouthpiece for my pep band games and found my range increased 3 more notes and I found that I can play those notes for much longer periods of time without losing my strength in my embouchure. I think you an hit those high notes on any mouthpiece but the "cheater" mouthpieces just make it easier to hit those notes
You do have a good point. Maynard wasn't playing on a huge bath tub Bach 1 1/4 C...that's for sure
I switched to euphonium in high school and I disagree when people say a shallow mouthpiece plays higher notes. when I switched, I was able to play higher than I ever played on the trumpet, hell when I started out it was actually harder to hit lower notes. so I think that the 1 1/2 c mouthpiece you are using IS why you were able to play the high note, since it's bigger than what highschoolers generally use.
Well, that is not entirely accurate
right because I know that there are some sizes that are perfect for certain embouchures. but I do however know that the size of a mouthpiece can affect not just the note, but the tone as well. If anything, it's probably more about what type of mouthpiece feels the most comfortable, but for me, the bigger the better.
Over the summer I played baritone and the rim and cup being big was harder to play in the high register, But after a while it got easier and easier to play high to the point that I could play higher than my trumpet. After playing the baritone i tended to overblown on the trumpet while tying to hit high notes.(I currently play on a 3c/5c) I want to know if switching to a bigger rim and deeper mouthpiece like the 1c or a bigger bore trumpet will be a good switch for me.
Thank you,
Well, if you make the switch, do one or the other, but not both. A smaller mp into a larger bore horn like I do, or a large mp into a medium bore horn like the 8310z
Alright thank you
Sure!
It's so much easier to get high notes on a French horn, but your right there are not many screaming horn players.
yup
hi,
I'm using a bach 3c since 3 years ago and only able reach high C. Can you suggest some ways to strongten high notes playing with a round sound (but not as high as double C)..
thanks:)
I have tons of tips here at my channel so just start scrolling. Otherwise, if you want to get serious go here: www.trumpetsizzle.com
I can't play very high, but I mean I am in 8th grade and can hit a E flat above the staff on a good day, so I guess I am good for now... (I started in 6th)
Yes, but I would focus on other things like sound, technique, sight-reading etc..
@Austin Benesh it really is about the HIGH NOTES.....when you can't play them! lol
I was at a Maynard concert when someone challenged Stan Mark about his mouthpiece. Jet stream. He shut them down and made them look like a fool. Great video. Your a beast.
Very kind!
THANKS KURT ......
glad you liked it
It's true. Once upon a time, I was able to play High E above the staff (sometimes F but it came out eh) with a Bach 1C on a larger bore (.462) trumpet. I never went higher than that E, but it is doable.
yes it is!
Practice and Practice some more. But practice right. I had a schilike 22 in High School and belted out high notes all the time. But I did have a great private teacher and practiced the right way. I've lost a little bit of my ability over the years but I don't play as much as I used to. Also Switched to a Schilijke 15B, which just feels so much better to me than the 22.
Yes, we do change with age
Nobody was born to play 3RD part! A comment below suggests he doesn't really have the talent which is wrong thinking. Everybody that has completed my 16 Week Upper Register Program has gained at least 4 notes!!!! If you have the time and a little bit of money to invest, your life will change forever
I started in 6th grade on a 5c and switched to a 1.5c my first year of college. Waaay bigger sound and more comfortable
You said the bach 1.5 c makes life more difficult. why? I'm new to trumpeting. I picked up an inexpensive trumpet. It came with a #13 J.Marcinkiewicz. Will it be easier for me now as a beginner to go with a lower number mouth piece? or should I just keep working with this one and get good with it? Some people have told me if it's comfortable keep it, but I have nothing to compare it to so I don't know if it's comfortable or less comfortable than anything else.
+Derrick128 id have to be working with you
Great video Kurt. About time too. I do nearly everything on a 11/4 C. Early baroque mouthpieces are not small. 95% the player.
Exactly true Roger
H´Kurt,
very nice clip from You on this subjekt, I have ask myself also during years, what MPiece will give me in high note capacity, no I know from Your test. I stick to my 7C and start practice from there in higher notes, Tnx Kurt.
My trumpet story is like this: start lessen to Dizzy in the 50th, couldent play hi like him, I saw myself as a looser, but one day came my saver rawmodel it was Chesney Baker, his recordings over the years, no high note playing and I play in that ideom since then.
But hearing You today I will give Hi note playing a chance in coming days, thank´s to You Kurt!
Johnny D Bergh
Hornman on You Tube
Hey Johnny, you are on the right track, but 7c may or may not be the best for you, yet you still need to get the chops in order first. If you want a fast track for incredible chops you really should check out my 4 month program where most brass players add 4 notes to their range! www.trumpetsizzle.com
I use a 5c for concert music and can hit all the same notes I can on my warburton 6m7* that I use for jazz, albeit with more difficulty. The mouthpiece only supports range, doesn't give it.
Well, yeah...that sounds about right!
the french horn double C sounded amazing
lol thanks.
Thanks for this Kurt. I don't play in your register, but this has been very helpful to know for just playing up to top C,D and E's.
Can you give any tips on how to get more "zing" and sparkle on the sound, or how to combat the deadness on some high notes?
th-cam.com/video/9k_Rkvs2ulY/w-d-xo.html likely you will add the sparkle when your tongue arch gets better
What do you tell people who, (for lack of a better term) lost there chops? For example, being able to play in the double register and going through an embouchure shift and almost completely losing it?
I tell them to start back at the beginning going through the basics!
Kurt, love your channel. What is a good substitute for a Neil Sanders 17s mouthpiece?
Well, a bach 1 1/2 E or bach 3 E would be close, but the rim still has quite a bite on it compared to the sanders. But try the above. The neil sanderss has a very wide rim at least as wide as a Bach 1 1/2 or wider
I have played a Double C on a 1c
Way to go!
what's the difference between a 1.5, 3, and 7c?
WIDTH!
@@TRUMPETSIZZLE so, the bigger the number, the wider the mouthpiece? What determines the depth?
do you think someone should look for a bigger mouthpiece if they have bigger lips?
It depends, but yes, there is some logic in doing so.
i play on a schilke 20....havent played in a while...will it be easier to hit the upper register on this mouthpiece or should another one be more helpful?
What mp?
appreciate the response! Yes it is a schilke 20 mouthpiece.
i played a double c on a 3c but only twice, i felt so accomplised
and you are so proud that I am sure you posted that on your channel, right? Because if you didn't, that would mean you are a lying sack of shite, but...I am sure you did. I will go check.
@@TRUMPETSIZZLE bro what
Alright Kurt I'm 15 I've been playing for 4 years and practice my ass off (pardon my French) though I still use that piece of overpriced crap recommend to me in 6th grade and ended up owning it I still play on a Yamaha 11b4 the student model but I still manage to have a range of a double g but it isn't very strong. Will changing my horn and mouthpiece help? And if so what do you recommend for lead big band playing
Sounds like you are already off to a great start. I didn't have a double G at 15, but I was auditioning and making All-State and other advanced ensembles.
Yes a better horn and mp combo likely will help, but you probably need to work on other stuff. I don't even see any videos of you playing at all on your channel and that is not a good sign my friend. Practice and put some videos up for us to watch!
I'm in 8th grade and I picked to play trumpet 🎺 because my teacher said I was playing high note (I forgot what it was called I'm not she if it was a double C) but my teacher said I was very good at it. The ting is that I only know how to play high notes. .. I think it's hard for me to play low notes.
I just started playing 2 weeks ago.
Hmmmmm sounds like you've caught bergeronitis, but don't worry: it's not contagious!
I play on a schilke 9A4 and a Bach Megatone 1 1/2c, both I can only reach the G above high C, any tips?
Have you watched this: th-cam.com/video/64r4-xEBNeo/w-d-xo.html
thank you, its definitely a big help!
Great info. Thanks Kurt.
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Great video myth buster.I generally use a bach 1 1/4C and I can go to double C and a little higher at a softer sound and I get a really nice tone, including playable pedal tones. I also have a Schilke 6A4A, and even though I slot much easier,(too easy) on the way up and down I still don't get any meaningful extension to my range and the tone is not nearly as nice as my 1 1/4C. For my playing style a cross between Arturo Sandoval and Chet Baker, I like my 1 1/4C.
I bought the shilke back in the 70s when Bill Chase was popular based on the same myth you are busting in this video and I never played well with it and have hardly used it. I would like to try something even deeper and larger when I get around to visiting a music store.
P.S. my trumpet is an unheard of and unidentifiable Halifax ML (.459), I have no idea who made it, I bought it in 1984 looking to upgrade from my student model Olds Ambassador. I would love to move up to an Adams A4 and see what happens.
BTW, I just returned to playing after 3-4 years off for a long term illness and I have only been practicing a month using Arturo's first book with the range exercises and it works well for me. and I don't have any more talent than the average guy, I am just a fan of hard work all my life.
Very good attitude!
Is it good that I can hit a F above staff on 1 1/2 c
Yes!
I play trumpet guys you can't beat a real pro I can play a low c on the staff get riggity rent
I'm glad to find a good debunking video. Although it would be fun to hear a double C out of a Bach with an A cup!
Yes it would
You should try out an apredato by Schargel. I find it really comfortable!
kool...ill look into it!
what about a Jupiter 7C mouth piece
Decent beginner mouthpiece
I use a glory 3C and I can get up to a high A
Sweet!
I bought a so called cheater mouthpiece it was a jettone vbc (the one bill chase used) and my range improved by one not the main difference I have noticed between playing on that and my normal 3c is that you do not get as tired when you play on the vbc
Hey
Yes that makes sense
Kool. I bet Rowuk can't even play a decent high C!!!!!
Nice complements, but one problem: I checked out your channel and it appears anonymous. In fact, you could be Rowuk and just trying to fuck with me. Reply back with your REAL NAME and some playing vids
hi Kurt my name is Diego I have a is get ton bc good for high notes
Ummmm ?
i play on a 7C and I can't play incredibly high but all my friends tell me it's because of my mouthpiece. lol guess i just suck
Hmmmm your friends are wrong.
do you beleive that mouthpieces can affect tone though?
100% of course they can...so can the horn. that is why i got rid of my 37 bell strad
that is amazing !!!
Thank you
If Kurt was a runner he'd run a mile in under 4 minutes. I'll never do that and I don't think I'll ever get a double C either. Oh well - back to the jogging...
lol very kind!
When Bach still catered to business players, the 7c was a better mouthpiece, it was smaller, the rim was friendlier, and the mouthpiece was SMALLER than todays Bach mouthpieces. It wasn't one in a thousand professional playing the 7c on the job, but significantly more at that time. The Bach mouthpieces of the time were just as inconsistent as they are today!
kool trivia!
the 7c tended to have a flatter rim than they do today, and also had a reasonable cup, rather than the toilet bowl they have today.
Same size as a modern 10.5c
F horn mouthpiece double C has pretty nice harmonics. ALL FRENCH HORN PLAYERS MUST BE CHEATERS!
not sure about that
well 90% of days for 4 yrs :)
also 13 but i can only get to g :/
good job!
I'm a little skeptical, since I've seen a demonstration video of a really cheater way to hit high notes, and that was actually by putting essentially a "double reed" into one of the valve tuning slides, and then when they want to hit that high note, they will just make it look like they are preparing for a struggle, and hide the fact that they are pushing down a valve. Pushing down the valve would make the air pass through the "reed" in the tuning slide, and with just sheer air flow could obtain ridiculously high notes, but none of them with musical value. (Not really a double reed, more plastic type of a reed in some random noise maker) Also, out of boredom, I decided to check if you were actually playing a double C by using a tuner, and that sure as hell was a double C.
Thanks...sometimes a small bit of skepticism is warranted.
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What's a cheater mouthpiece?
A cheater mouthpiece (commercially known as a screamer mouthpiece) is a mouthpiece designed with a shallow cup in order for the player to reach high notes with ease. The downside to these mouthpieces is that they have god-awful tone quality.
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I don't really belive in the name cheater mouthpiece because think of this:
You use a huge sledge hammer to drive in railroad ties , but you use a very small light weight hammer for driving in picture nails to hang pictures in your home.
The smaller hammer is not a "cheater" hammer any more than a mouthpiece designed to play and sound great in the commercial world