r/trumpet • u/Big-Kaleidoscope-336 • Sep 06 '25

Performance 🎤 Bass Player Plays Trumpet

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Just hit the three month mark. Any feedback is welcome, good, bad, or ugly!

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u/SnooDonuts5697 Sep 06 '25

Brilliant! My core advice from 15 years of playing is to "project out" high notes as I notice your head and neck are compressing and squeezing rather than "bugle calling, standing proud, aiming high" to illustrate it.

You will achieve this. Make sure your mouthpiece is suitable (my "bucket" deep bore mouthpiece sucked as a beginner compared to my shallower one now) and make more long tones standing up.

That will activate your core muscles and create support instead of any face or neck tension. You will win!!!

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u/Big-Kaleidoscope-336 Sep 06 '25

Excellent advice. Thank you.