Ep. 5 Breath (Part 2): Applying Breathing Gym to Trumpet; Direction of the Airstream (aka support)

In the 5th episode of Ryan's Trumpet, we continue exploring the question of breath on the trumpet.

Topics:

Applying Breathing Gym to the trumpet (developed by Sam Pilafian and Patrick Sheridan).

The Role of the Diaphragm.

Direction of the Airstream (how not to "breathe backwards); inspired by my lessons with Tom Rolfs.

Practice Techniques to develop a natural, healthy character of wind, connected to energetic direction of wind.

If the ideas from the great Arnold Jacobs feel compelling to you, here's a wonderful place to start your research into his teaching:

https://windsongpress.com/product/als...


Breathing Gym Resources:

https://patricksheridan.com

https://patricksheridan.com/collectio...


Diaphragmatic breathing animation:

   • 3D view of diaphragm  


You can find John Marchiando here:

https://www.johnmarchiando.com


And Allen Vizzutti here:

https://vizzutti.com



I also highly recommend David Hickman's "Trumpet Pedagogy," which can be found here:

https://www.hickmanmusiceditions.com/...

Keep those questions coming, fellow trumpeters!

Ryan's Trumpet is a recurring series that shares ideas and practices that have been extremely helpful to Ryan as a trumpeter, musician, composer, improviser, and teacher.

Have some questions about this episode? About the trumpet? Music? Performance? Jazz? Composing? Contact Ryan through his website, www.ryanstrumpet.com

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Ryan Nielsen is a trumpeter/performer/crossover artist who loves teaching too. He is the trumpeter in the Kobie Watkins Grouptet. Their first album, "Movement," received international acclaim and was selected by Howard Reich (former member, Pulitzer Jury) as one of the 10 best albums of 2018.

Ryan has also recorded and performed with Ra Kalam Bob Moses and the Summit Brass. In 2021, he was an adjudicator for the preliminary rounds of the Carmine Caruso Jazz Trumpet Competition, "The world's most prestigious competition for jazz trumpet." He has performed as lead and solo trumpet with Delfeayo Marsalis's Uptown Jazz Orchestra, and received the Doc Severinsen Award for Outstanding Classical and Jazz Trumpet.

Ryan co-authored "The Classroom Guide to Jazz Improvisation" with John McNeil (Trumpet, Hush Point; frmr. trumpet, Horace Silver; Professor Emeritus, New England Conservatory). It is due to be released later this year by Oxford University Press.

He is currently Associate Professor of Trumpet at Utah Valley University. He has studied with teachers in the Stamp, Cichowicz, and Caruso schools of pedagogy. His trumpet mentors include David Hickman, Tom Rolfs, John McNeil, Newell Dayley, Marcellus Brown, Mark Lewis, and Steve Newton.

Visit Ryan online at www.ryanstrumpet.com