Your method makes a lot of sense compared to what I see most people saying on RUclips. I can play a double high F above the staff lines, fairly easily. It’s clean clear and relaxed, but only for a very short while and then it will be gone. I persist trying with the idea that it’s like weight lifting and I just need more reps and to exhaust myself to build up endurance. I think I see now that I need to change my approach and work on what you say. Thanks!
Thank you for sharing this! I personally am working on reducing tension in my throat and neck, and my head would hurt when I worked on my upper register playing. I had never considered OVERbreathing to be a problem, but now I know that's something else I need to work on!
Great concise advice. I can attest that this approach really works. Playing luck be a lady Sinatra consistently is proof enough for me. Really like your way of explaining things and reminding us that it is about the music in the end!
i didnt realize how much tension i was playing with. whenever I played higher i would grip my trumpet super hard and my lips would be come tense. thank you so much and I wish you the best.
wow. extremely valuable and yet again so "simple". especially for me, where I can call up the F3 regularly, the tips give me another push towards a better feel, endurance and confidence when working out the best sound and stable height. So far, I've mostly practised with scales and natural scales, but my throat got tight pretty quickly. This is exactly the problem I can now tackle!
You sound great and your information is great! I'm solid up to a double c...sometimes a D. Tension is my enemy and it happens when I realize how difficult it is. Thanks again for this eye opening video.
Thank you, teacher, I had never heard of the glottis on the trumpet.I have never been able to have a high record. I have always felt my throat closed.I would like to get a book that talks about this or your doctoral thesis.
I had the privilege of seeing Maynard three times, once with Steve Reid and his brother John sat in the audience right in front of me. Little did I know we would become close friends later in life.
Great informative video. My question to you is, are all aspiring trumpet players able to play double high Cs at some point in their development, or is it a question of physical gifts?
When I was growing up I had all these doubts in my mind about getting there. In fact, my goal was to be able to play Gs and As. I started being able to play double Bs where my break was about 5 years after my professional career started and I started experimenting with equipment and fingerings to help notes speak. I wouldn’t say that it’s a question of physical gifts, unless you have some kind of teeth structure that totally messes with airstream. There are some people that play with their upper lip at the very edge of there upper teeth, when this happens changes to the back and bottom of the tooth can greatly affect the air spin or flow. I’ve experimented with putting wax on the back side of my teeth, but it doesn’t affect much for me because my jaw is open wide enough for my lips to overlap the space between my top and bottom teeth, as I have no gap horizontally between my teeth. I believe it is a learned skill that most people can achieve if they are using the proper equipment and are playing efficiently, without excess isometric tension. I believe that and thinking that it’s difficult are the some of most difficult challenges to overcome for the majority of people.
Man, that was great Ryan. Always wondered how you had that Double C at the end of that 4 hr gig up in Cartersville with “ The abnormal suspects” 😂 over 10 yrs ago.
Beats “Bo and the Gang!” 😂😂😂 Always enjoyed hanging with ya. Especially that Chattahoochee Golf Club gig where you were sick as a dog… but you nailed it anyways….and where the pay was well….late!
I’ve been dealing with Valsalva for about 5 years now. I can make the trumpet sing like a bell until High C until it falls apart. Can you do a video addressing this specifically? Thanks!
Currently traveling, however, I’m teaching lessons on Thursday, July 26. If interested, contact me through my website: ryanchapmantrumpet.com I think it will be a lot more helpful for you, if I can address your specific needs in a lesson format. All the best!
I use my signature artist model Warburton mouthpiece on a NY backbore with a 30 throat on a 1968 Conn Connstellation 36B Trumpet at the moment. The trumpet in this video is a horn made from a Yamaha 6310z and has a Calicchio 10 leadpipe with a 1s bell. Yes, I do give lessons. You can contact me through my website. ryanchapmantrumpet.com
I’ve tried many times to use the tongue in Highnote playing. If everything else stay the same, and I drastically move the tongue as if whistling high notes, my trumpet notes never raise at all. So I’m still skeptical about the whole tongue thing lol!
Hey I was right there with you, I remember reading about it in the Claude Gordon books when I was in high school and thinking, this doesn’t work. It wasn’t until later in my musical career that I realized the reason it wasn’t working for me is because the air was going around my tongue and in between my upper and lower teeth around my cheeks. So, for me it was spreading my tongue out flat like a cobra head with the edges firmly fixed to my top molars in the back so that the air is forced to stay between my tongue and the roof of my mouth and then raise and lower the tongue using the ahhh and eeehh… makes a hissing sound like a cat when you push the air with abdominal muscles with no mouth piece to your lips.
I have been playing a trumpet since 1989 and unfortunately for me when I play high notes, I wind up pressing the mouthpiece closer to my lips leaving a little red ring on my lips when I'm done playing. I've had dental work done on my front tooth so I can't be a pressure player anymore. So I'm trying to play without using pressure but it's difficult since I've been doing it for so long. So I guess I won't be hitting high notes anymore. I should have just stayed away from the dentist.
Saturday Jan. 20, 2024. 3:25 central time. I have come to place where I believe teeth play apart in playing in the high register. I have no gap between my top teeth and bottom teeth so creating a small aperture only gets me to a road block.
It's the body of a Yamaha 6310z that a friend of might bought on my recommendation. He passed suddenly at 92 years old and it was gifted to me. The horn played stuffy, so I put a Calicchio 1s bell and 10 lead pipe with a .338 opening on it and now it plays great.
This might sound crazy, but the thing that has worked the most for me (as far as mental games) when going up is to think about doing... Absolutely NOTHING! What about the air? Nothing, just release air the same way you do it with low notes. What about lip pressure? Nothing, try to keep lips as similar as possible to the low note you started with. What about the tongue? Now this one is a huge NOTHING. How many times do we have to choke and reach our limit in range every time we do the tongue arche to understand that it doesn't work? Besides doing nothing, the pencil exercise (done correctly) and the Cat Anderson whispered g (also done correctly with teeth closed position) are magical. Be sure to do these correctly, most people play these as isometric exercises when in fact they should be thought of as position exercises.
My dissertation covers most of what you are talking about especially the word you used choke. Google Ryan Chapman and Glottis and my dissertation from Frost School at University of Miami will pop up. Sam Pilafian was on my committee among others that have been heavy educators and performers in the music field.
@@jazzg7b13I will certainly look it up, thank you. I am always eager to learn more and have learned to open my mind and ears to everything. Thanks again!
The trumpeting advice is sound, but I want to offer some constructive feedback about the neuroscience related to myelin and learning. Myelination starts prenatally and finishes by around the mid 20s. The myelin sheath serves to insulate the axon, which speeds neural transmission rate. Myelin is created by glial cells. The process of learning does not create myelin. If we created myelin by learning, we would never learn anything after the mid 20s in the lifespan. The neuroscience behind learning involves establishing neural pathways where adjacent neurons fire together and create networks that work efficiently together as they continue to fire (action potentials) together. Processes of synaptogenesis and neural pruning help refine the pathways and further increase efficiency. It is true that starting slowly and developing accurate execution is better. The goal is errorless learning. Making errors, especially repeating the same mistake, will wire a neural pathway to keep making the mistake. Progressing slowly through learning a new behavior allows for attention to detail and making fewer mistakes that could become a bad habit.
If by "compression" you mean air pressure, there is ONE mechanism to create compression. That is the exhalation action. The tongue does not "compress" the air nor do the lips.
The lip aperture AND the instrument resistance is always present when playing. Additional resistance by a pronunced tongue arch will not further increase the pressure of the air reaching the aperture. It actually reduces it from the lung air pressure.
@@darryljones9208 Its simple physics. By narrowing the opening in which air travels through we increase its velocity, and faster air means you can play higher notes.
@@darryljones9208 For example, if you cover half of a running house spout the water travels farther because theres more velocity due to a smaller opening.
@@jh420x not exactly. Frequency of tone has NOTHING to do with air flow velocity ANYWHERE. And the hose nozzle example is irrelevant for a number of resons. A garden hose nozzle limits the water flow. This reduces the pressure losses due to viscosity losses through the long and narrow supply hose AND the long narrow water lines before that. That geometry does not exist for the trumpet-playing system. The aperture PLUS instrument resistance ensures that full lung air pressure exists at the lip aperture. Any narrowing upstream will ONLY reduce the pressure of the air available at the aperture. That goes for a narrowing of the throat (glotis) OR an arched tongue. The claim that the tongue arch "compressed" the air or increases the air "speed" through the lip aperture is absolutely absurd. Often heard and incessantly repeated by trumpet players, but purely nonsense.
thanks, best exercise yet for coming back after 40yrs .
You made me feel human again Ryan. All things are always possible with the right attitude. THanks.
Your method makes a lot of sense compared to what I see most people saying on RUclips. I can play a double high F above the staff lines, fairly easily. It’s clean clear and relaxed, but only for a very short while and then it will be gone. I persist trying with the idea that it’s like weight lifting and I just need more reps and to exhaust myself to build up endurance. I think I see now that I need to change my approach and work on what you say. Thanks!
Thank you for sharing this! I personally am working on reducing tension in my throat and neck, and my head would hurt when I worked on my upper register playing. I had never considered OVERbreathing to be a problem, but now I know that's something else I need to work on!
Brilliantly put. Thank you 🎺
Great concise advice. I can attest that this approach really works. Playing luck be a lady Sinatra consistently is proof enough for me. Really like your way of explaining things and reminding us that it is about the music in the end!
Ryan - thanks for passing along this wisdom.
Love everything about this video. Wish I could give it multiple thumbs ups!
A great artical, thank. I’m coming up 80yrs old, but I give it a go mate!!🤔😜
Thank You Thank You Thank You Champ
Fantastic sound advice 🎶🎺🎶🎺got to Stick At It!🎶🕺🎶🎺🎺
i didnt realize how much tension i was playing with. whenever I played higher i would grip my trumpet super hard and my lips would be come tense. thank you so much and I wish you the best.
Loved this!! Thanks for sharing, mate.
Yeah Ryan!!
Thanks bruh! Hope you are well!
Thank you so much for all this information, I’ll definitely check all yours tips 🙏🙏🙏
wow. extremely valuable and yet again so "simple". especially for me, where I can call up the F3 regularly, the tips give me another push towards a better feel, endurance and confidence when working out the best sound and stable height. So far, I've mostly practised with scales and natural scales, but my throat got tight pretty quickly. This is exactly the problem I can now tackle!
Thanks so much. This is great information.
Great advice! I'm going to have to try it. I agree, Warburton mouthpieces are amazing!
You sound great and your information is great! I'm solid up to a double c...sometimes a D. Tension is my enemy and it happens when I realize how difficult it is. Thanks again for this eye opening video.
Thanks man!
Nunca había escuchado una información tan clara y precisa como esta. Thank You so much for searching. God bless you
Thank you, teacher, I had never heard of the glottis on the trumpet.I have never been able to have a high record.
I have always felt my throat closed.I would like to get a book that talks about this or your doctoral thesis.
scholarship.miami.edu/esploro/outputs/doctoral/A-Strategy-for-Proper-Utilization-of/991031448066602976
And that's the fun of playing the trumpet 🎺
Nice blowing. 👍
Saw Maynard Ferguson in high school and he could hit those high notes! Wow!
I had the privilege of seeing Maynard three times, once with Steve Reid and his brother John sat in the audience right in front of me. Little did I know we would become close friends later in life.
You give lessons
@@jppirr1031 yes, I do.
@@jazzg7b13 what’s the best way to contact you
A neurological approach! Excellent idea, Ryan. Keep going, please. Greetings from Santa Fe, Argentina and my personal regards to Terry.
Great informative video. My question to you is, are all aspiring trumpet players able to play double high Cs at some point in their development, or is it a question of physical gifts?
When I was growing up I had all these doubts in my mind about getting there. In fact, my goal was to be able to play Gs and As. I started being able to play double Bs where my break was about 5 years after my professional career started and I started experimenting with equipment and fingerings to help notes speak. I wouldn’t say that it’s a question of physical gifts, unless you have some kind of teeth structure that totally messes with airstream. There are some people that play with their upper lip at the very edge of there upper teeth, when this happens changes to the back and bottom of the tooth can greatly affect the air spin or flow. I’ve experimented with putting wax on the back side of my teeth, but it doesn’t affect much for me because my jaw is open wide enough for my lips to overlap the space between my top and bottom teeth, as I have no gap horizontally between my teeth. I believe it is a learned skill that most people can achieve if they are using the proper equipment and are playing efficiently, without excess isometric tension. I believe that and thinking that it’s difficult are the some of most difficult challenges to overcome for the majority of people.
Thank you Ryan! ❤
Thanks Neo, keep on keepin’ on!
Thanks Neo! Keep on keepin’ on!
Man, that was great Ryan. Always wondered how you had that Double C at the end of that 4 hr gig up in Cartersville with “ The abnormal suspects” 😂 over 10 yrs ago.
Ha! Double C was a relatively new note for me back then. 😂
Great name for a band! 😜
Beats “Bo and the Gang!” 😂😂😂
Always enjoyed hanging with ya. Especially that Chattahoochee Golf Club gig where you were sick as a dog… but you nailed it anyways….and where the pay was well….late!
@@RandyRheinschild 😂🤷♂️
I’ve been dealing with Valsalva for about 5 years now. I can make the trumpet sing like a bell until High C until it falls apart. Can you do a video addressing this specifically?
Thanks!
Currently traveling, however, I’m teaching lessons on Thursday, July 26. If interested, contact me through my website: ryanchapmantrumpet.com I think it will be a lot more helpful for you, if I can address your specific needs in a lesson format. All the best!
nice vid man
Thanks!
RYAN IS TOP SHELF MET HIM AT THE GUILS
Can muscles for embochure her strong even if you are a seventy be at apprentice?
Thanks a lot for your advices !!!very important
Yes, our brains produce myelin throughout our entire lives. However, there are certain diseases that can affect myelin production.
What gear do you use, trumpet, mouthpiece? Do you give lessons?
I use my signature artist model Warburton mouthpiece on a NY backbore with a 30 throat on a 1968 Conn Connstellation 36B Trumpet at the moment. The trumpet in this video is a horn made from a Yamaha 6310z and has a Calicchio 10 leadpipe with a 1s bell. Yes, I do give lessons. You can contact me through my website. ryanchapmantrumpet.com
I’ve tried many times to use the tongue in Highnote playing. If everything else stay the same, and I drastically move the tongue as if whistling high notes, my trumpet notes never raise at all. So I’m still skeptical about the whole tongue thing lol!
Hey I was right there with you, I remember reading about it in the Claude Gordon books when I was in high school and thinking, this doesn’t work. It wasn’t until later in my musical career that I realized the reason it wasn’t working for me is because the air was going around my tongue and in between my upper and lower teeth around my cheeks. So, for me it was spreading my tongue out flat like a cobra head with the edges firmly fixed to my top molars in the back so that the air is forced to stay between my tongue and the roof of my mouth and then raise and lower the tongue using the ahhh and eeehh… makes a hissing sound like a cat when you push the air with abdominal muscles with no mouth piece to your lips.
@@jazzg7b13 very cool of you to point that out, much appreciated! I will definitely be thinking of cobras now
And give it another try.
I have been playing a trumpet since 1989 and unfortunately for me when I play high notes, I wind up pressing the mouthpiece closer to my lips leaving a little red ring on my lips when I'm done playing. I've had dental work done on my front tooth so I can't be a pressure player anymore. So I'm trying to play without using pressure but it's difficult since I've been doing it for so long. So I guess I won't be hitting high notes anymore. I should have just stayed away from the dentist.
Saturday Jan. 20, 2024. 3:25 central time. I have come to place where I believe teeth play apart in playing in the high register. I have no gap between my top teeth and bottom teeth so creating a small aperture only gets me to a road block.
What horn is that?
It's the body of a Yamaha 6310z that a friend of might bought on my recommendation. He passed suddenly at 92 years old and it was gifted to me. The horn played stuffy, so I put a Calicchio 1s bell and 10 lead pipe with a .338 opening on it and now it plays great.
please answer my question. Does playing the trumpet harm the eyes? such as glaucoma. And is it harmful to play after LASIK (vision correction) or not?
I'm sorry, I can't answer your question, I'm not a medical doctor and I haven't done any research on glaucoma or LASIK surgery.
What’s the title of your thesis? In which university was it published?
Google my name and glottis and it will pop up. University of Miami.
@@jazzg7b13 Already done, thanks for the reply!
Hey, this dude has been in my house! :D
This might sound crazy, but the thing that has worked the most for me (as far as mental games) when going up is to think about doing... Absolutely NOTHING!
What about the air? Nothing, just release air the same way you do it with low notes.
What about lip pressure? Nothing, try to keep lips as similar as possible to the low note you started with.
What about the tongue? Now this one is a huge NOTHING. How many times do we have to choke and reach our limit in range every time we do the tongue arche to understand that it doesn't work?
Besides doing nothing, the pencil exercise (done correctly) and the Cat Anderson whispered g (also done correctly with teeth closed position) are magical. Be sure to do these correctly, most people play these as isometric exercises when in fact they should be thought of as position exercises.
My dissertation covers most of what you are talking about especially the word you used choke. Google Ryan Chapman and Glottis and my dissertation from Frost School at University of Miami will pop up. Sam Pilafian was on my committee among others that have been heavy educators and performers in the music field.
@@jazzg7b13I will certainly look it up, thank you. I am always eager to learn more and have learned to open my mind and ears to everything. Thanks again!
The trumpeting advice is sound, but I want to offer some constructive feedback about the neuroscience related to myelin and learning.
Myelination starts prenatally and finishes by around the mid 20s. The myelin sheath serves to insulate the axon, which speeds neural transmission rate. Myelin is created by glial cells. The process of learning does not create myelin. If we created myelin by learning, we would never learn anything after the mid 20s in the lifespan. The neuroscience behind learning involves establishing neural pathways where adjacent neurons fire together and create networks that work efficiently together as they continue to fire (action potentials) together. Processes of synaptogenesis and neural pruning help refine the pathways and further increase efficiency.
It is true that starting slowly and developing accurate execution is better. The goal is errorless learning. Making errors, especially repeating the same mistake, will wire a neural pathway to keep making the mistake. Progressing slowly through learning a new behavior allows for attention to detail and making fewer mistakes that could become a bad habit.
If by "compression" you mean air pressure, there is ONE mechanism to create compression. That is the exhalation action. The tongue does not "compress" the air nor do the lips.
Without a point of compression where there is resistance to the exhalation, there is no compression, just exhalation.
The lip aperture AND the instrument resistance is always present when playing. Additional resistance by a pronunced tongue arch will not further increase the pressure of the air reaching the aperture. It actually reduces it from the lung air pressure.
@@darryljones9208 Its simple physics. By narrowing the opening in which air travels through we increase its velocity, and faster air means you can play higher notes.
@@darryljones9208 For example, if you cover half of a running house spout the water travels farther because theres more velocity due to a smaller opening.
@@jh420x not exactly. Frequency of tone has NOTHING to do with air flow velocity ANYWHERE. And the hose nozzle example is irrelevant for a number of resons.
A garden hose nozzle limits the water flow. This reduces the pressure losses due to viscosity losses through the long and narrow supply hose AND the long narrow water lines before that. That geometry does not exist for the trumpet-playing system. The aperture PLUS instrument resistance ensures that full lung air pressure exists at the lip aperture. Any narrowing upstream will ONLY reduce the pressure of the air available at the aperture. That goes for a narrowing of the throat (glotis) OR an arched tongue.
The claim that the tongue arch "compressed" the air or increases the air "speed" through the lip aperture is absolutely absurd. Often heard and incessantly repeated by trumpet players, but purely nonsense.