Trumpet trumpet lessons trumpet books. Trumpet College by Clint Pops McLaughlin - Check our trumpet lessons online trumpet lessons and trumpet books.

Chops Builder


Subliminal teaching CDs.

Take a phone lesson.

Chops Builder a trumpet exercise book.

Book about better trumpet playing in only 30 minutes a day.

Trumpet book with trumpet embouchure pictures.

Order by Mail

Order on the web

Take A Trumpet Lesson

My Trumpet Books

Reviews of my Trumpet Books

Book Pages

30 Min to Better Trumpet Playing

Get A Gig

Trumpet Chops Builder

Trumpet Embouchure Pictures

The Pros Talk About Trumpet Embouchures

The No Nonsense Trumpet From A-Z

Trumpet FAQs

The Next Level on Trumpet

Air On The Move

Trumpet Players Guide

Misc trumpet pages

Trumpet Shopping Cart

Tips and gratuities for trumpet help
Tips for Trumpet help

Article about my teaching

Trumpet Master Class

How to improve on Trumpet

Trumpet and Tongue Arch

Breathing

Lip Buzzing

3D Trumpet Embouchure Pics

Trumpet Playing Articles

Trumpet Sound Clips

Trumpet Testimonials

Fanfare Trumpets

Trumpet Links

About Me

Trumpet College Homepage


This site Trumpet College is about; Trumpet lessons and trumpet books by Clint 'Pops' McLaughlin. Trumpet college is the most visited trumpet site on the net. All trumpet embouchures taught. Play the trumpet effortlessly based on your facial structure. Thousands of trumpet students helped from amateur to pro level. Check out our trumpet lessons, our online trumpet lessons and our trumpet books. Trumpet playing, trumpet lessons, trumpet books. This site Trumpet college covers these topics: trumpet, trumpet playing, trumpet lessons, trumpet books, trumpet embouchures, TCE, Stevens, Superchops, Maynard Ferguson, mouthpieces, Bach, Bill Chase, Callet, Schilke, Doc Severinsen, Yamaha, Maggio, embouchure, trumpet books, trumpeter, trumpeting, Marsalis, Louis Armstrong, build a balanced embouchure on the trumpet. Thanks for visiting Trumpet College.
Pops

ITG . Tips . Trumpet .

This is the most exciting thing I've done in a while.

I've gotten thousands and thousands of questions about 3 chop related issues.

They are addressed in this report.

.
The first topic is how to reduce mouthpiece pressure.
I have discovered a very unique way to hold the horn that allows you to play normally and look normal but prevents you from being able to use mouthpiece pressure.
This includes several pictures to show exactly how and why it works.

.
The next topic is; what is an open aperture, do I have one and how did it happen.
Well in this case several pictures are worth more than 100,000 words. Most people never notice this has happened until I show them. But the results from knowing how to stop it are priceless.

.
The last topic is the basic pencil exercise and the advanced pencil exercise.
Finally pictures showing exactly how to do it.
The advanced exercise while being used for over 40 years has never been written about in any book. It will seriously build your range.

.
Along with this I include 2 pencils of different lengths (which means they have different weights) and a 10 week exercise course that will improve your endurance and range.

This has been known to almost change players lives.

Credit Card Shopping Cart

Chops Builder
$ 12 + 3 shipping in the US
(7 dollars shipping overseas)


Send Cashiers Check, Money Order, Personal Check, Cash

Please include your name, address and what you are ordering.

To:
Jan McLaughlin
2324 Norwich Ln
Grand Prairie,Texas 75052

Texas residents add 8.25% sales tax.


Send money by Western Union to above address. Send to Grand Prairie, Texas 75052. Please include the transaction number and your address in your email.

.


Trumpet playing tips.
Factors for a dynamic embouchure on the trumpet.

When are people taught about a set point and trumpet playing?

ALL beginning trumpet students ARE taught the concept.
As first year trumpet students the range falls between low g and 4th space e. They are taught to set for a second line g. This prevents the need for lots of shifting, curling......
The problem comes in year 2 when the range of the trumpet student increases the center of range starts moving up. The set point should as well.
Non trumpet playing teachers are the reason this and a hundred other things are not taught. If you use a pivot and lower your tongue as you descend the g on the staff setting should be easy to add to your full time trumpet playing.
The concept is about setting closer to the needed top note than the needed bottom notes. In some groups setting on a middle c might be enough. In another ie playing Si Si MF (up to g over double c) setting on high c might be better. There is an old Big Band chart Harlem Nocture where it is almost all below low c. The set point on this is of course lower (second line g).
If you can set for about an octave under the top note played then you get the benefits. This is a flexible IDEA it moves according to the range needed in a piece.

Less lip movement means less work. We all know that the less lip movement we use the easier playing is. I don't mean corner movement but the constant tensing / releasing compressing of the center.
I have always taught it this way in the past. I like to use page 125 line one of Arban. It is a c major scale up and down. But every other note is low G. It both starts and ends on the low g.
1. Play the low g then do the exercise. Most people have trouble on the top of the scale.
2. Play middle c then play the exercise. Here most people have trouble with the low g's.
3. Play a second line g and then play the exercise. Most people can cover the range spread very cleanly this way.
This shows the idea of a lip set in the middle of the range of the piece. If we set on the low end then we have to waste a great deal of strength to play the higher end. (Here it is only middle c.) If we set for the top note the tone and response of the low notes may suffer. (In younger players)
By setting in the middle we compress the range and don't work the chops.
This applies to ALL playing. In a piece with high c's in it set the chops for a note closer to the top like the g on top of the staff. That would compress the range of the same exercise played an octave up.
Compressing the range makes a piece more playable.
I use a 3 octave g scale from low g to g over high c. If I set for low g I can't play it. If I set for g on top of the staff and use a good pivot to make the low g clear I can play 3 octave scales.
To teach a more constant lip setting. I use Etude I in Clarke Technical Studies. A low note NEEDS a big aperture but a loud note CAUSES a big aperture.
Take a second line g and play it pp. Keep the aperture the same but add a lot of air and you CAN get a loud g on the staff.
I try to teach high note apertures by having the student play soft midrange notes then increase the air. Some have trouble controlling the aperture. So I wanted an exercise to teach that control.
Clarke I uses decrescendos when the notes descend and crescendos when it ascends. It changes that only when changing register (lip set point) like going to the high c part. I've been able to use this to better teach using air as an octave key.

This is described in several books found on my site.

Copyright protected from 1995 to date.

... .