How to Make Sounds
Part of the Video Series Trumpet Lessons for Beginners: Scales
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How to Make Sounds
Well now that we have found all the parts to this modern instrument, we want to make some sounds on this instrument. Making sounds is pretty much your embouchure, which is the muscles used in your mouth to buzz and the air flow vibrate. (Buzzes.) Breathing is key to making sounds on a brass instrument. When you're breathing, you want to breathe in not here in your lungs... (Inhales.) ... that would not get in enough air to push the instrument. You want to breathe in through your nose and hold your hand on your belly and fill up your diaphragm and your belly. (Inhales.) Then your lungs will fill up. (Exhales.) Then you empty out, and you want to feel your belly fill up with air, sitting up straight so that the air can go in and out into the horn. And I'll demonstrate how to breathe in and hold a note on the trumpet. (Inhales and plays a sustained note.) I could go on for quite some time. Once you have a proper amount of air, you can regulate how many times you breathe and it will show you how long you can play the horn. Breathing with a brass instrument or any wind instrument is the most important thing to learn-- to continue to breathe and not take real short... (Plays with short breaths cutting off the note.) And you'll run out of breath quickly, so breathing, breathing in through the nose and filling up and breathing out through the instrument, and all the way out.
Well now that we have found all the parts to this modern instrument, we want to make some sounds on this instrument. Making sounds is pretty much your embouchure, which is the muscles used in your mouth to buzz and the air flow vibrate. (Buzzes.) Breathing is key to making sounds on a brass instrument. When you're breathing, you want to breathe in not here in your lungs... (Inhales.) ... that would not get in enough air to push the instrument. You want to breathe in through your nose and hold your hand on your belly and fill up your diaphragm and your belly. (Inhales.) Then your lungs will fill up. (Exhales.) Then you empty out, and you want to feel your belly fill up with air, sitting up straight so that the air can go in and out into the horn. And I'll demonstrate how to breathe in and hold a note on the trumpet. (Inhales and plays a sustained note.) I could go on for quite some time. Once you have a proper amount of air, you can regulate how many times you breathe and it will show you how long you can play the horn. Breathing with a brass instrument or any wind instrument is the most important thing to learn-- to continue to breathe and not take real short... (Plays with short breaths cutting off the note.) And you'll run out of breath quickly, so breathing, breathing in through the nose and filling up and breathing out through the instrument, and all the way out.
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Expert: J.D. Keating is a musician, artist and educator from Western Massachusetts. For two decades he has lent his varied talents to innumerable projects in the music industry. Read More
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