How to Easily Expand Your Trumpet Range (without Hurting Yourself!)

Trumpeters often practice the high register loudly and get nowhere, fast and suffer bruised lips along the way. The greatest trumpeters, including many whom I have studied with (such as Jon Faddis, Wynton Marsalis, Maurice Andre, Bobby Shew, etc...) will tell you that you need to practice softly in the high register. Even Cat Anderson wrote in his method book that soft practice was the key to attaining the high register. It shouldn't hurt to play high...if it does, then you are allowing the lips to open up by playing too loudly and then shutting them by pressing too much with the mouthpiece. Find the coordination first, and then grow the soft notes into louder notes. Remember that today's squeaks are tomorrows notes!

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