Trumpet complete embouchure workshop (From Hello Trumpet)

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The complete free embouchure workshop (From Hello Trumpet).

Embouchure is defined as the way the lips and tongue are applied to a woodwind or brass instrument. Developing your embouchure is part of learning how to play an instrument and sustaining good musicality. The characteristics of a good embouchure are control, tone, endurance and range. Read the suggestions below to learn how to develop embouchure on a trumpet.

It is remarkable to see that the trumpet can be controlled to such an extent as to produce the variety of music that it does when the player's only contact with it is with his lips and his left hand. It has helped me to bear this in mind because it suggests that any adjustments to improve embouchure would probably be physically very small, and subtle. To stay focused, we also note in passing that our efforts toward improvement are, in most cases, not related to the requirements of the music that is to be performed. In fact, it may be argued that altissimo playing, for example, represents more of an athleticism and a projection of power, than music as we normally think of it. I would tend to agree somewhat with this and would guess that there is not a significant segment of the earth's civilized population that would enjoy hearing much more than one triple C. It is helpful then to note this distinction when we consider our goals so that arguments, for example, that "high range (endurance, or flexibility) isn't everything", will have no place in this discussion. We are not doing anything musical here. We are instead simply trying to develop a physical methodology to achieve the well defined ends of increased range, flexibility and endurance. And because of this, suggested embouchure improvement techniques will be accompanied by physical rationale and not obscured by extraneous musical preferences. To this end we proceed as follows.