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How to Make Sounds With Your Lips on a Trombone

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Summary: Learn how to make sounds with your lips on the trombone (embouchure) in this free video music lesson.

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How to Make Sounds With Your Lips on a Trombone

Hi, now we're going to, since we've familiarized ourselves with the trombone and some of the accessories and how it's assembled and disassembled, the basic parts, here's some basic techniques to make sounds on the trombone. Now making sounds on the trombone, you must use air to push through the instruments, and your lips, otherwise known as an embrasure. The embrasure is how your mouth fits on the mouthpiece. And you make the sound by vibrating your lips together. And into the mouthpiece. Now I practice by trying to make the same tone without the mouthpiece as with the mouthpiece. Now that vibration will go through the instrument and create a tone in the instrument by tightening your lips you'll raise the tone of the instrument and create overtones. So I can loosen my lips by lowering my jaw slightly. Or I can make a higher note by tightening my embrasure. Oh you must breathe as well. And once you've learned to create the buzzing to develop your embrasure, you can then place your mouthpiece in your trombone and start to warm up.

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