Trumpet

[Jaged]

I have been playing clarinet for 6 years and finaly got bored with it. I recently picked up a trumpet and am struggling with it. I have had 2 30 min lessons and can barely get out a middle g. Does anyone here play trumpet or any other similar brass instruments that could give me a few pointers.

[firecrackerNC]

Not to be mean and/or a flamer but wtf? A clarinet? Why would you ever want to play that? Trumpet I can understand cause I used to play saxaphone but guys should really stick to saxaphones/drums/trumpets not no freaking clarinets. /me ends assholeness

[Jaged]

Thats why im switching. Clarinet sucks.

As to why i stuck with it for so long, I was good at it and I enjoyed it for a while. I don't really care if you think guys shouldn't play it. Flute I can understand, thats jusg gay. But half the clarinets I know are guys. Whats the big deal?


and "trumphet" dosent have an H

[firecrackerNC]

fix0red

oh and I dunno just clarinet seems kinda.....eh. I dont know any guys in our band who play it is all. Least I dun think so, I dont pay attention much to the band they give me a headache.

[LimpBIT]

Its all about Tenor sax. Maybe mr grantham can give you a few lessons if ya know what i mean :)

[Kyonye]

Hell no, it's all about the Tamborine's yo... :)

[Derfud]

I played the trumped several years ago for my elementary school band, then picked it up and started playing again this year. The main thing you need to focus on right now is getting your embrasure, in other words, the way you shape your lips in order for the sound to come out. Everyone seems to have a different way of acheiving one. In order to make higher notes, you need to lessen the opening for air to flow through.

Try on your mouthpeice by itself, it seemed to help me out quite a bit. Once I got the mouth-form right, I was able to play the entire imperial march on my mouthpeice.

[Jaged]

I played the trumped several years ago for my elementary school band, then picked it up and started playing again this year. The main thing you need to focus on right now is getting your embrasure, in other words, the way you shape your lips in order for the sound to come out. Everyone seems to have a different way of acheiving one. In order to make higher notes, you need to lessen the opening for air to flow through.

Try on your mouthpeice by itself, it seemed to help me out quite a bit. Once I got the mouth-form right, I was able to play the entire imperial march on my mouthpeice.
Yeah, thats exactly where I am stuck. Its so different from the clarinet embrasure. With any reed instrument you have the wood to vibrate for you. With brass, your lips are the reed. It definatly takes alot more effort to make a sound with brass then woodwind.

[I Hate Pants]

Ip layed trumpet back in elementary school. I actually started to get good with it, but then I finished elementary school and never played it again.

The only thing I can rememeber is that you have to form your lips as if you were saying "m" while blowing.

[Baneblade]

Sax, even I knew that in the 4th grade.

[steeldragon01]

I played trumpet not that hard to learn with a good teacher.

[Mag-Mower]

I am awful at all brass instruments, i lose at them, i made my music teacher yell at me once because i was so awful...

[ChewyLSB]

I play the Trombone myself... I'm ok on the trumpet. I'm in my school's Jazz and Marching Band's... but yeah, how you form your lips is the most important things. Switching between woodwinds and brass instruments is fairly difficult.

[Strygun]

I played first chair trumpet for about 4 years. Here's what you need to do.

Carry your mouthpiece with you. If you get bored somewhere (especially if you can drive) take it out and just buzz with it. Even without the mouthpiece, all you need to do right now is work on "buzzing" your lips.

One thing I think you might be struggling with is the pressure you put on your lips. You can't just lightly touch your lips together and blow, that won't get you anywhere. You have to kind of "push" them together while blowing to get that buzzing sound you're looking for. Once you get that buzz, you can start learning how to adjust your lips to achieve different notes.

One last thing that might be happening to you - coming from playing a reed instrument, you'll need to relearn how to use your lips, bascially. Don't cover your front teeth with your lips and try to buzz like that, it just won't work. Your lips need to be in a normal position when you start putting pressure on them and blowing.

If any of that makes any sense...

Good luck

[Baneblade]

Kiss the instrument.

That's what Strygun would have said if he ever kissed a girl before :p

[Mr1337Duck]

I play the alto sax, myself, I'm the only freshmen in our section and I'm 5th outta 9, I beat out 2 sophomores and 2 juniors for my position, and I will say that the sax is the easiest thing in the world to play well. I mean seriously, you'd have to be f***ing retard, or maybe have your jaw ripped off of your skull in order to be incapable of playing that, and I'm willing to bet a fair amount of mentally disableds could probably still play it decently.

You just stick your mouth to the mouthpiece and blow, it's easy as blowin' on a fricken' whistle. Unlike trumpets and the other instruments that have that kind of mouthpiece that I, for the life of me, cannot figure out how to play. Of course, I could never figure out how to whistle, myself, so that's probably just the shape of my mouth or how my brain functions, or something like that. I dunno.


P.S: Good to see you again, everyone. Sorry I've been gone so much, but I just had been neglecting my friends here. But I'm back until further notice now.

[BUGGER]

PUtting your tounge in different possitions help too. With that i could get up to an A sharp and thats about it :D.


My teacher (who was actually really good state wide i think) Mentioned about the shape of your mouth like how your teeth look and what not. Maybe your mouth is not built for the trumpet or brass in general.

I played for a year and ahalf, i gave up after i learned in 7th grade that i couldn't play an instrument and do football at the same time, so i said fuck it. Anyways i was a slacker at it and no one wanted to do it anymore. Great instrument though, that, sax, and the clarenet (sp), get some good jazz with it.

[Jaged]

Ok, im over the first rough part. I can get up to a mid g and am even getting c's out. Its starting to come together.

[Infernus]

The litany of my instruments:


Trumpet
Drums
Guitar
Flute
Washboard
Empty Rum Bottle
Soup pot