Trumpet Lessons with Adam Meckler - Note Bends

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Adam Meckler is a trumpet player, composer and educator living in Minneapolis, MN. He holds a B.M. in Jazz Studies from Lawrence University, and a M.M in Trumpet Performance from the University of Minnesota. Adam has toured with Youngblood Brass Band, Nooky Jones, The Jana Nyberg Group, Lulu's Playground, the Jack Brass Band, and Todd Clouser's A Love Electric. He also plays regularly with The Graydon Peterson Quartet, The Brass Barn Polka Band, The Good The Bad The Funky and The Pete Whitman X-Tet.
Meckler was the 2014 recipient of MacPhail Center for Music's Artist Development Grant resulting in When the Clouds Look Like This, a full length album of original music for Jazz Orchestra composed and directed by Meckler. In December of 2014, When The Clouds Look Like This was listed among 2014's Best Jazz Releases on iTunes.
Meckler holds Faculty positions in trumpet and Jazz at McNally Smith College of Music, and MacPhail Center for Music. He is also one of three founders of SoKillingMan.com, a site dedicated to transcription and analysis of jazz solos. He is an active educator/clinician maintaining a trumpet studio in the Twin Cities and performing clinics and workshops all over the US and abroad.

[@parazamal]

Thanks!

[@AdamMeckler]

Thank you!!

[@parazamal]

Wow, this helps also with learning to blow into a trumpet after your first lesson. I feel like this is important to try to grasp to get notes right. I love it. Thanks again!

[@AdamMeckler]

Glad you found it to be helpful! Good luck!

[@djuneconley5569]

Yes! lots of fun! Thanks Adam

[@nezu_gen]

as a saxophone play i love my octave key and overtones cuz learning trumpet and partials are killing me ;-;

[@AdamMeckler]

So hard. 😂

[@ryanh4975]

I don't play the trumpet, I play the guitar. But find these videos very interesting. Love to see how all music relates. Also, love the Steelers stuff! 🖤💛

[@AdamMeckler]

Ha nice! Let's go Steelers!!

[@danieltakyi6469]

Hi

[@rodrigodebrito9826]

It is necessary to replace the mouth 7c for 5b?

[@willzinhomunizz]

Show

[@hotrod3383]

When you play are you like whistling?

[@AdamMeckler]

My tongue position inside my mouth IS a bit like it is when I am whistling.

[@adityatyagi4009]

Great lesson! What kind of horn and mouthpiece do you play?

[@AdamMeckler]

Getzen Genesis

[@djbirthdaycake2250]

Hey Adam, do you teach online

[@AdamMeckler]

Hi! I do teach online from time to time. My schedule is full at the moment, however. Send me a message if you'd like to connect in the future!

[@ashtonjensen7325]

Sup Adam it's Red Shirt

[@AdamMeckler]

Red shirt!!!!!

[@ashtonjensen7325]

Yep it's me, you doing Mcphail again next year I might come again

[@AdamMeckler]

+blankets water bottles do it!! I'm running the show again. Linz should be there again, too! We're meeting to pick dates this week.

[@ashtonjensen7325]

Sweet should be fun

[@ashtonjensen7325]

Hey red shirt again should I do the advanced one or just the normal one