Fix 90% of Your High Register Problems on the Trombone

Want to improve your playing and become 1% better every day? Watch my Masterclass here 👇 🔗 https://www.alegriamusic.net/watch?ut... Discipline • Knowledge • Progress • Community 1% Musician: Become 1% better every day. If your high notes come out squeezed and forced and your lips are swollen after one concert, it's not because you aren't strong enough. It's because you're blowing heavy air and crushing the mouthpiece into your lips, when fast air and strong lip corners should be doing the work. In this video I show you why blowing harder kills your high register, the flutter-tongue drill on the Bolero solo that turned my lip corners into pillars of steel, the cool-down rule I learned after almost ending my career at 17, and three tests you can run at home today: the paper on the wall, the sweet point and the push-ups. Iron corners, silk center. That's the golden rule for hitting high notes. Chapters 0:00 Why blowing harder kills your high notes 1:33 Iron corners, silk center (faster air, not heavier air) 2:17 The paper test: can your air hold it for 5 seconds? 3:30 The held breath that builds a wall in your throat 4:21 The trick my teacher used from across the room 5:26 No tongue for the first 30 minutes 6:21 99% air, 1% tongue (the Tuba Mirum test) 7:32 Stop crushing the mouthpiece: the minimum is the maximum 9:15 Flutter tongue on Bolero: pillars of steel for your corners 11:54 Your lips are a ponytail rubber band 13:09 As soon as you go up, always come down 14:36 Don't hold the trombone, carry it 15:23 Practice the stage, not just the notes 16:10 The push-up test: Bolero with a racing heart 16:52 Sick, exhausted, and I still won the audition 17:52 Why stopping every 30 seconds trains you to fail 19:12 Free masterclass + what to watch next #trombone #trombonist #highregister