5 tests I Run on Trumpet Players Before They Buy A Mouthpiece

Work with me - https://www.precisionbrass.info/webin... Testimonials -    • Student Wins/Testimonials   You've spent $600 on one mouthpiece, $45,000 on the whole collection, and the same problems follow you onto every single one. I've been there: about $100,000 of trumpets, 55 or 60 of them, and I ended up right back at square one. The gear isn't the problem. Your setup is. In this video I run the exact tests I use with my students and with everyone I have a consultation with, to find out if it's the gear or the player. They are the soft G breath attack, C to G, octave leaps, the growl, the G crescendo, the lawnmower and tonguing speed. Then there's the palm test, which shows you the exact note where mouthpiece pressure takes over. You can try every one of them at home today. If you can't play low C to high C in tune, in time, with a good sound, that's not a gear problem. That's an embouchure problem, and buying another mouthpiece is worrying about the shingles on the roof when your basement's flooded. Chapters 0:00 $45,000 of mouthpieces, and you're still blaming the gear 1:15 $100,000 of trumpets later, back at square one 1:49 The soft G breath attack that laughs at you 3:50 C to G: locking in the partials, or forcing them? 6:34 The pinched slur no mouthpiece will fix (not even a Kelly Screamer) 7:14 Octave leaps: when your low setting doesn't match your high 8:03 Can't growl? Your throat is the problem 8:31 The G crescendo test: type 1, type 2, or squeezing the corners? 9:13 The lawnmower test: puckered, pinched or drawn back? 10:02 The palm test: the exact note where mouthpiece pressure takes over 13:05 Tonguing speed: it's not the syllable, it's your air 14:33 $675 or $34: every one of these mouthpieces plays a high C 16:06 The lip swelling loop that wrecks the next day's playing 17:17 Give Tiger Woods average clubs. He still beats me. 18:07 Pass every test and still no high G? Now we can talk gear. 19:37 Why none of my tests go above high C 20:08 The 3 rules no piece of gear can do for you 21:26 Why a new mouthpiece buys you 2 notes, not an octave 22:13 Try the tests yourself + free masterclass Tiger Woods photo by Keith Allison, CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/..., via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... #trumpetlife #trumpet #trumpetgear #embouchure