I THANK YOU SIR !!! I played the guitar, in bar bands & country dances as a hobby. My job required me to use air impact tools and my hands & arms took a beating. I had to have Carpal Tunnel surgery, (both wrists), to get rid of the extreme pain. Now, I can no longer play my guitars! I love to play music and figured, since my grandson keeps his Trombone up here and I have a Harbor Freight Bugle, I might as well try my luck at making a racket on them. I just LOVE 40's Swing ! Before I turn around twice, I'll be 70. Any advice I get, I ponder. I watch lots of videos from lots of players. I take a little from this one and a little from that one and continue on, finding things that work for me, and make it mine. I like wisdom from pros. They do it day in and day out. What's fluid to them, is almost impossible for me! THANK YOU for making your videos. I for the life of me, can't seem to get but two notes. My lips feel like mince-meat or a bad fever-blister is on its way! Every time I go by my bugle, I pick it up and play two notes. Sounding like a long tail'd cat in a room foll of rocking chairs 😉
Great video! I came to college a couple months ago with no knowledge of free buzzing. My trumpet professor got me to start working at it a few weeks into the semester. It killed me at first because I just couldn't get it. After a while, I figured out I could get a sound if I put my tongue up against my lips. Totally wrong. So I had to go back to the drawing board. FINALLY I figured it out. I was so happy! Two weeks ago my trumpet professor told me I needed to bring my top lip back in to get a
better buzz. I managed to fix that and I'm now making continuous improvements on my buzzing which I feel have transferred over to my trumpet playing. Great video! Thanks!
Overbite CAN be a determent to playing and buzzing, if it is severe. What you need to do is make sure that both top and bottom lip edges meet "in-between" the open teeth. The reason the lows don't buzz is that your teeth are too far closed. Keep them open and relax your lips meeting in the center of the space between teeth. When you start to buzz do it easy. Then add air and keep lips together as much as it takes to keep them from being blown open by the air.
@johnmorisi8 Actually I refer to bottom lips that rise up and roll in eventually hitting the top teeth which cuts the sound off. Usually characterized by a thin sound in the upper register that finally gives up. The top lip remains in contact with the lower lip whilst playing - neither should touch the teeth edges
I don't even like buzzing on the mouthpiece, much less lips alone. They may bring some warm-up blood to the chops maybe, but you don't buzz on the trumpet.
Yup. Smiling won't help you out. My professor says it's all about air speed and aperture. Technically, your speed should dictate the aperture. So far, it's worked really well for me. I used to have problems with smiling.
I'm a college sophmore, been playing trumpet for 10, 11 years or so. I noticed that I typically thin out my top lip to play into the upper register and start losing the sound. I noticed that this has also done terrible things for my tone quality over time, being that I played in an agressive high school program which demanded a lot of the lead trumpets, and then proceeded to play upper split 2nd in a world class DCI Drum and Bugle Corps. continued on next comment
This is a great video. I was kind of upset because I was watching some videos of people who you say do that incorrect/artificial type of lip buzz. I thought I was playing my trumpet wrong because I couldn't do that type of buzz. It makes me feel glad to know that I've been doing the correct more relaxed way. I was wondering though. Were you saying it's bad to touch your top lip to your bottom teeth to cut sound? Because I always have to play too loud for high notes and that may help to cut sound
It's also EXTREMELY imperative to note that any or ALL lip(freeform) buzzing should be done with the chops thoroughly saturated with saliva (even if you play dry normally) and NEVER tongue attack a lip buzz, all lip buzzing MUST be done with a whooooo no tongue air attack and the airstream must be downward, never up (regardless of your physical type while actually playing). Many people do NOT know how to properly lip buzz, if you do not know how, do NOT do it at all!
I did study with Claude Gordon and buxxing the mouthpiece was used - but not the way I am using it in this video. CG used pedal tones to - in my opinion - accomplish a similar result. I never met Reinhardt
Overall, the demand that was expected out of me was to play high and to play quite loud (including a couple years on lead in jazz that I forgot to mention), and I'm totally willing to go through an embouchure change (as difficult as it may be) to extend my years of trumpet playing and improve my tone. As a reminder, I do have an overbite. What do you suggest?
I'm recovering from a stroke and trying relearning to play trumpet again with a fixed bridge on top and partial Denture at the bottom what is the trick of playing high notes with it
Coach, are we actually suppose to engage a lip buzz as we play our horn ? Doesn’t the trumpet provide resistance to allow relaxed lips to vibrate sympathetically on their own? ( second question, ,can you recommend a mouth piece I can purchase from you ( new or used) that is extremely chop friendly ( perhaps a flatter wider rim, not too deep not too shallow specifications. I cannot seem to find a comfortable MP, I’ve heard you mention comfortable MP’s you like.
correct. When we place the chops on the mpce they are gently touching. When you hear the note you desire the air flows up and out and then from practice you will automatically use your experience and "feel" for the note. Anytime we preset the chops then blow we are set up for a miss.
Hello George. nice video, i'm guiding my buzzing journey on it hehe. i have a QUESTION: Which lip i have to vibrate, top or bottom, in your WAY to buzz ( i mean the first kind you showed ) ????? THANK YOU
I got back into trumpet recently, my embouchure is slightly to the right and I can only play for a half hour before my lips can't hold anymore high notes (keep slipping). When I was done I looked at my lip in the mirror and the right side of my top lip hangs lower then the left. Am I screwing my lips up, or are my lips just not used to it yet. I don't want to have a crooked lip in order to play trumpet.
George. I have a bit of an overbite. My question to you is.. "Will this affect my buzzing or the way that I can buzz or can it limit low, medium and high buzzing?" I've been practicing and I found I can get a pretty good High buzz and a Medium buzz but I have a problem with low buzzing of the lips. Thanks for reading this.
@grawlin Oh, my apologies, I meant the bottom lip touching the top teeth. I was practicing today with that in mind, and I noticed that my teeth do touch, and I probably end up blowing harder to force the sound through. So for my teeth not to touch I have to avoid that lower lip rolling in? When I try to make it avoid rolling into my teeth I have trouble producing any sound... is that something I just need to get used to and re-develop?
Louie Armstrong had his lips bleed and they were all scarred up from what has been shared with me. You may be good keeping your right arm Mr Jimmienoon ;)
I've had braces on for almost a year now and I just got rubber bands (causes my teeth to become straighter and have a better alignment with my top and bottem teeth) and I'm getting ready for a marching band show in about 1 month now, I have to play some notes such as high G and A and my brace guards are helping me get to higher notes but I can't sustain them for long do you have any tips for me?
thnx!!! im in grade 10 and i seem to play with my top lip over the mouth piece. i can play fine but i tire very quickly because of it!! i can buzz decently well for a 10th grader but any tips would be nice!
Isn't buzzing without the mouthpiece is like practicing swimming on dry land? It's artificial. One can still create a solid sound in the trumpet by blowing in a way that would not buzz without the mouthpiece. So this is a false criterion, I'd say.
the spanish subtitles is a good idea. I do not speak the language but am interesting in finding more about the possibility. The production time may make it impractical, but I'll investigate. If anyone wants to post a short translation here you have my permission.
not if that is where the air naturally comes out best or if your teethe are a little crooked. Just be sure to apply any feft hand pressure you use at the same angle as the teeth lie. Otherwise you will trap one side of the embouchure . gR
Since more than a year a backbone injury disables me to carry out my daily exercise on the cornetto. Nevertheless I do a lot of buzzing every day for keeping my embouchure. It works very well. I found out the best way to practice is with pointed lips, as if I would blow into a mouthpiece. If you like, hear me in a duet with jazz singer Daniela Rothenburg. Just search: DAS BAEUMCHEN.
@SnowBroProductions If your placement is off to either side it should be due to teeth and or gaps in them. To help find your true placement play into the leadpipe with tuning slide removed. Get a very clear sound and then move the notes down and up. By play testing different positions you can find your best placement and at the same time get your air and embouchure working together. Then play the same note with the slide put back in the horn - you will be amazed at the difference. gRawlin.com
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I've watched several tutorials and failed, but this one got me buzzing in three notes. Excellent pointers. Thank you for posting this!
I THANK YOU SIR !!!
I played the guitar, in bar bands & country dances as a hobby. My job required me to use air impact tools and my hands & arms took a beating. I had to have Carpal Tunnel surgery, (both wrists), to get rid of the extreme pain. Now, I can no longer play my guitars! I love to play music and figured, since my grandson keeps his Trombone up here and I have a Harbor Freight Bugle, I might as well try my luck at making a racket on them. I just LOVE 40's Swing ! Before I turn around twice, I'll be 70. Any advice I get, I ponder. I watch lots of videos from lots of players. I take a little from this one and a little from that one and continue on, finding things that work for me, and make it mine. I like wisdom from pros. They do it day in and day out. What's fluid to them, is almost impossible for me!
THANK YOU for making your videos. I for the life of me, can't seem to get but two notes. My lips feel like mince-meat or a bad fever-blister is on its way! Every time I go by my bugle, I pick it up and play two notes. Sounding like a long tail'd cat in a room foll of rocking chairs 😉
Great video! I came to college a couple months ago with no knowledge of free buzzing. My trumpet professor got me to start working at it a few weeks into the semester. It killed me at first because I just couldn't get it. After a while, I figured out I could get a sound if I put my tongue up against my lips. Totally wrong. So I had to go back to the drawing board. FINALLY I figured it out. I was so happy! Two weeks ago my trumpet professor told me I needed to bring my top lip back in to get a
better buzz. I managed to fix that and I'm now making continuous improvements on my buzzing which I feel have transferred over to my trumpet playing. Great video! Thanks!
Overbite CAN be a determent to playing and buzzing, if it is severe. What you need to do is make sure that both top and bottom lip edges meet "in-between" the open teeth. The reason the lows don't buzz is that your teeth are too far closed. Keep them open and relax your lips meeting in the center of the space between teeth. When you start to buzz do it easy. Then add air and keep lips together as much as it takes to keep them from being blown open by the air.
@johnmorisi8 Actually I refer to bottom lips that rise up and roll in eventually hitting the top teeth which cuts the sound off. Usually characterized by a thin sound in the upper register that finally gives up.
The top lip remains in contact with the lower lip whilst playing - neither should touch the teeth edges
Best video for buzzing thank you
Thank you so much. Very enlightning.
geoge, can you do another video on lip devolpment, i have a lot of trouble buzzing without my mouth piece.
I don't even like buzzing on the mouthpiece, much less lips alone. They may bring some warm-up blood to the chops maybe, but you don't buzz on the trumpet.
When I buzz in my trumpet I get the sound, but at the last second my lips make a different sound. Great video
Yup. Smiling won't help you out. My professor says it's all about air speed and aperture. Technically, your speed should dictate the aperture. So far, it's worked really well for me. I used to have problems with smiling.
I'm a college sophmore, been playing trumpet for 10, 11 years or so. I noticed that I typically thin out my top lip to play into the upper register and start losing the sound. I noticed that this has also done terrible things for my tone quality over time, being that I played in an agressive high school program which demanded a lot of the lead trumpets, and then proceeded to play upper split 2nd in a world class DCI Drum and Bugle Corps. continued on next comment
This is a great video. I was kind of upset because I was watching some videos of people who you say do that incorrect/artificial type of lip buzz. I thought I was playing my trumpet wrong because I couldn't do that type of buzz. It makes me feel glad to know that I've been doing the correct more relaxed way. I was wondering though. Were you saying it's bad to touch your top lip to your bottom teeth to cut sound? Because I always have to play too loud for high notes and that may help to cut sound
It's also EXTREMELY imperative to note that any or ALL lip(freeform) buzzing should be done with the chops thoroughly saturated with saliva (even if you play dry normally) and NEVER tongue attack a lip buzz, all lip buzzing MUST be done with a whooooo no tongue air attack and the airstream must be downward, never up (regardless of your physical type while actually playing). Many people do NOT know how to properly lip buzz, if you do not know how, do NOT do it at all!
I did study with Claude Gordon and buxxing the mouthpiece was used - but not the way I am using it in this video. CG used pedal tones to - in my opinion - accomplish a similar result.
I never met Reinhardt
Overall, the demand that was expected out of me was to play high and to play quite loud (including a couple years on lead in jazz that I forgot to mention), and I'm totally willing to go through an embouchure change (as difficult as it may be) to extend my years of trumpet playing and improve my tone. As a reminder, I do have an overbite. What do you suggest?
I'm recovering from a stroke and trying relearning to play trumpet again with a fixed bridge on top and partial Denture at the bottom what is the trick of playing high notes with it
Coach, are we actually suppose to engage a lip buzz as we play our horn ? Doesn’t the trumpet provide resistance to allow relaxed lips to vibrate sympathetically on their own?
( second question, ,can you recommend a mouth piece I can purchase from you ( new or used) that is extremely chop friendly ( perhaps a flatter wider rim, not too deep not too shallow specifications. I cannot seem to find a comfortable MP, I’ve heard you mention comfortable MP’s you like.
correct. When we place the chops on the mpce they are gently touching. When you hear the note you desire the air flows up and out and then from practice you will automatically use your experience and "feel" for the note. Anytime we preset the chops then blow we are set up for a miss.
Hello George. nice video, i'm guiding my buzzing journey on it hehe. i have a QUESTION: Which lip i have to vibrate, top or bottom, in your WAY to buzz ( i mean the first kind you showed ) ????? THANK YOU
I got back into trumpet recently, my embouchure is slightly to the right and I can only play for a half hour before my lips can't hold anymore high notes (keep slipping). When I was done I looked at my lip in the mirror and the right side of my top lip hangs lower then the left. Am I screwing my lips up, or are my lips just not used to it yet. I don't want to have a crooked lip in order to play trumpet.
George. I have a bit of an overbite. My question to you is.. "Will this affect my buzzing or the way that I can buzz or can it limit low, medium and high buzzing?" I've been practicing and I found I can get a pretty good High buzz and a Medium buzz but I have a problem with low buzzing of the lips.
Thanks for reading this.
@grawlin
Oh, my apologies, I meant the bottom lip touching the top teeth. I was practicing today with that in mind, and I noticed that my teeth do touch, and I probably end up blowing harder to force the sound through. So for my teeth not to touch I have to avoid that lower lip rolling in? When I try to make it avoid rolling into my teeth I have trouble producing any sound... is that something I just need to get used to and re-develop?
I want to get back into playing regularly again. Any tips or suggestions that I can use to achieve getting my sound back. Anything is helpful.
Louie Armstrong had his lips bleed and they were all scarred up from what has been shared with me. You may be good keeping your right arm Mr Jimmienoon ;)
Have you used wax? It forms to the mouthpiece and teeth at the same time. Not for everyone but sometimes works just for playing
I've had braces on for almost a year now and I just got rubber bands (causes my teeth to become straighter and have a better alignment with my top and bottem teeth) and I'm getting ready for a marching band show in about 1 month now, I have to play some notes such as high G and A and my brace guards are helping me get to higher notes but I can't sustain them for long do you have any tips for me?
thnx!!! im in grade 10 and i seem to play with my top lip over the mouth piece. i can play fine but i tire very quickly because of it!! i can buzz decently well for a 10th grader but any tips would be nice!
Isn't buzzing without the mouthpiece is like practicing swimming on dry land? It's artificial. One can still create a solid sound in the trumpet by blowing in a way that would not buzz without the mouthpiece. So this is a false criterion, I'd say.
the spanish subtitles is a good idea. I do not speak the language but am interesting in finding more about the possibility. The production time may make it impractical, but I'll investigate. If anyone wants to post a short translation here you have my permission.
Can you please help me, and tell me how to buzz through my lips, because i cannot even make a buzzing sound....!!!!!!!!
not if that is where the air naturally comes out best or if your teethe are a little crooked. Just be sure to apply any feft hand pressure you use at the same angle as the teeth lie. Otherwise you will trap one side of the embouchure .
gR
@grawlin oye si tu puedes o conoces a alguien k los pueda pasar a español te lo agradeceria mucho a darme una idea de lo k trata ok
thanks
Now there's spit all over my screen...
Since more than a year a backbone injury disables me to carry out my daily exercise on the cornetto. Nevertheless I do a lot of buzzing every day for keeping my embouchure. It works very well. I found out the best way to practice is with pointed lips, as if I would blow into a mouthpiece. If you like, hear me in a duet with jazz singer Daniela Rothenburg. Just search: DAS BAEUMCHEN.
@grawlin he's saying: the video is very good but put subtitles in Spanish to better understand what k thanks my friend
I would give my right arm if I knew exactly how Louis Armstrong practised.
@weckling11 Maybe some nice person will translate your ? for me - I believe you said it would help if I had subtitles?
buzzing =pressure! its the biggest misconseption in trumpet playing
@SnowBroProductions If your placement is off to either side it should be due to teeth and or gaps in them. To help find your true placement play into the leadpipe with tuning slide removed. Get a very clear sound and then move the notes down and up. By play testing different positions you can find your best placement and at the same time get your air and embouchure working together. Then play the same note with the slide put back in the horn - you will be amazed at the difference. gRawlin.com
im a master of free buzzing for some reason o.o i wet an amazing tone when i free buzz
BuZZzing - bad little finger - bad little finger:)
grawlin I need help. Please help.
I realize that my post was a couple weeks ago, but I sent my message to you, the first message contains the posts, the 2nd contains my email
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Trying to play my sisters trumpet its fr..king hard
esta muy bueno el video pero pongan subtitulos en español para k lo entienda mejor thanks my friend
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hmmmmm....thought that was for trombones only
Im losing my breath as im wtching this thing
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