my music teacher really want me to take up the trumpet(because he need more people for the school brass group) and also i've been want to take up a brass instrument for a long time(i want to take up the french horn too).
i tried on my friend's trumpet but really hardly to make a sound.
so can anyone tell me about what did they do when they start to play the trumpet and how to make good sound.

i maybe completly an totaly wrong, but i heard somewhere playing trumpet and french horn together are very bad together because the embrouchures are so different.....


I started in primary school we had a little audition and first you had to buzz through the mouthpiece and i at first made a really good sound on like all the other 8 yr olds having ago, i just loved it from then...... lol

Just buzzing on the mouthpiece for a start, try to get a nice, even sound. Then try tounging some different rhythms..whatever you like...and then try changin the pitch by slurring...like go over a hill on a bike...blow harder (and tighten your lips marginally) to get over the hill and then relax to make the pitch lower again.

Then try some stuff on the trumpet!

Just some ideas

The trumpet certainly has a bad influence on the horn; the horn mailing list to which I belong was making the point (not for the first time) quite recently. To move from horn to trumpet may be slightly easier, but to keep both going to a high standard you would have to do more than twice the practice.

Wouldn't playing the trumpet have a bad effect on your flute embouchure...or am I waffling silly things again?!

It does knacker your flute embourchure, but you just deal with it! (knackers clarinet one more lol!) I didn't find it hard to pick up, nt that I've been playing long. I've not had lessons and can reach Gs and As above the stave quite comfortably!

I have to give it back soon though

I have trouble with Clarinet and Flugel actually...I can't seem to strengthen my embrouchure in either. I can't play wither of them for more than an hour. On the flugel I can barely get above an A as it is..on the Clarinet I can't get above a top Eb...

Meh, I suppose it can get there but it'll probably take some time...

It's coz the mouthpiece on the trumpet squashes my top lip and makes it swell up, and coz I play double lipped on the clarinet, I couldn't make it curl round the top of my teeth enough. It's ok now I'm (trying to) play single lipped!

Yay...one of my double-lipped buddies!

Not anymore! As of last week, I got told that in order for me to improve, I should change to single lipped! Now my clarinet teacher is telling his other double lipped pupil to do the same.

We're becoming extinct!

Nooo lol I will always play double lipped...unless I have to play single of course.

Meh.

You're using too much pressure to get high notes. The best way to get the top register is with lateral tension in the lips. You can learn how to do that by practising lots of octave slurs while keeping the pressure as low as possible. Philip Farkas's horn tutor has a picture of him playing a horn which is just resting on a horizontal surface. Trumpets are lighter, so that is even more difficult on them, but it shows the idea.