How to play Piccolo Trumpet Reiche Abblasen Fanfare

I recorded this in Symphony Hall and my home studio in the winter of 2020. I wanted to share with my students a resource for how to play piccolo trumpet. 00:05 Fanfare 00:33 i thought i'd take a little time to talk about the basics of piccolo plangle 0:00:38.480,0:00:41.920 i would say that the basics of piccolo 0:01:40.400,0:01:44.079 when you pick up the piccolo you want to make the clearest brightest spinningest sound possible. 0:02:40.480,0:02:44.400 the harder piccolo excerpts like magnificat, christmas oratorio, b minor mass always felt really difficult to me until i sort of made peace with the idea that first of all i needed the right setup with my mouthpiece and my piccolo (Schilke P54 and Yamaha 7A4 mouthpiece) 0:03:21 i'm just going to play for you now whati play for mymy piccolo routine 0:05:25 Same mechanics on piccolo that i have on my c trumpet or my b flat trumpet 0:07:10 i didn't like how difficult that felt i didn't like how difficult that sounded and i didn't like the pitch and the reason all those things were there was... 0:08:34 it should not be fat and juicy - the room is what makes it fat and juicy 0:09:02 in order for these extreme higher notes to come out for me to come out easily for me i really have to inflate 0:10:14.640,0:10:21.680 so that's my daily piccolo routine might be a little bit puffy at this For more info and videos like this subscribe to my channel and visit my webpage: benwrighttrumpet.com