Trumpet Mouthpiece Lip Placement

www.mysterytoma... Trumpet Mouthpiece Lip Placement. Finding the optimum placement of the trumpet mouthpiece is essential if you want to develop flexibility, endurance, range and a pure sound. Would you believe most people manipulate their lips when placing the mouthpiece. This causes a required force of air to get the desired oscillation of the lips tissue and air column. Another sample from M2MII Mystery to Mastery Book 2.

[@katiekilgore6918]

I love this! I'm a trumpet major in college, and I'm visually impaired. I had to do an embouchure change 6 months ago, and not being able to see what I was doing actually helped me get used to the new placement very quickly. About 6 days in, I had already forgotten exactly how my old placement felt. I have to play by feel and by what I hear, and I think that makes me approach my playing in a different way than most people do. I'm still working on staying relaxed when I play. I never had a trumpet lesson before I started college, so I had picked up a lot of bad habbits in the years I had been playing before. I'm still trying to break myself of some of those, and the biggest one for me has been staying relaxed, especially in my upper range. I'm getting there, though. It's taking longer than I would like, but I'm too determined to give up. I've gone too far to give up, so I'll just keep working at it, and I'll get there. :)

[@stephenkenny1647]

As I said on the other video, I decided to go through the weird sensation and just try it and it made loads of difference to my playing. I'm not now a pro or world class now or anything, but, i'm almost afraid to say, it works!

[@timeinthebottle1127]

That was one GEM of a tip...
much obliged, Greg 👍

[@mysterytomastery1]

@Viktorus Mickunas, as you touched on, it IS the sensation we are after but also I want to eliminate any manipulation of the lips by the rim. We are trying to find the most natural placement to allow for optimum efficiency. Cheers, Greg

[@chadattude]

I have watched so many of your videos and you have changed my entire thinking of what the trumpet is and how to play it. i am curious on your opinion of mouthpiece selection. I know players that select different mouthpieces for different styles and some that claim its not the mouthpiece, its the player. Do you have an opinion on this, and if so I am curious to hear it.

[@Sclavus]

Yes!!! It's working! After many,many repetitions..but this working! Thank u!!!!🙂

[@viktorasmickunas2527]

Hello Greg.
I have a quick question: why is it so important to put the mouthpiece in exactly the same spot where I put my visualizer? Is the exact location on the lips where I set the visualizer crucial to producing a good sound, or is it the same blowing sensation that we're after? And when I go to the mouthpiece are lips to be allowed to adjust a little to fit them comfortably in the cup or should they stay exactly the same, as when using the visualizer? Thanks.

[@mysterytomastery1]

@chadattude Mouthpieces change sound. The player has the idea of sound they want to create and then the correct mouthpiece will facilitate that sound in the most efficient way. As Bobby Shew says, "Not everyone wears the same size shoes!"