7 Steps To FIX Your Trumpet Articulation

In this video we're going to cover how to keep your air forward. This is going to help make everything easier on the trumpet!
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Full Fundamentals Playthrough
Full Trumpet Routine Play Through and Commentary

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[RyanBeachtrumpet]

I received a comment from someone that doing the tongue stopping step caused some throat tension. If that’s something you are encountering, you might be pushing too hard. The point of that step is to bring the air to the aperture and feel the compression and energetic air that’s ready to be released on the next step.

[MrBochawa]

Hey Ryan, I think you have the best technical information on YouTube. This concept is definitely something that has caused some havoc throughout my career. I find it has this nefarious tendency to sneak up on me. I've noticed that my own students come to me with this problem also. Do you have any insight as to the physiological causes of this? I feel that it has to do with the point of intra-oral compression? A lot of teachers (band directors, specifically) teach to actively "open" the throat (as I was taught), I suspect that the opposite actually occurs, and that by artificially "opening" the throat, we are actually constricting the airway and dropping the back of the tongue so that compression is not maintained to the point of vibration? Am I on the right track with this?

[neocolors]

This is such great knowledge that you provide here! Thank you very much!

[brianglover]

Been having some breakthroughs with this concept recently and you just cleared up a lot of the remaining confusion, thanks! :)

[bastianbleu]

Hi Ryan! Thank you so much for your videos. They are easy to follow and bring about a lot of epiphanies. We met at SOI 5 or so years ago. This explanation is so great, I think you can market it to more musicians than just trumpet. I know a lot of woodwind players this explanation would immensely

[LA-cyzj]

great video!
It took time to figure out what you are actually doing, I'm still not sure if I have got it, but it feels good and I'll keep practicing.

With minimal difference in effort taken to exert the air, it has taken my low notes from weak and delicate to strong and confident.

You did a good job of describing the steps. It is very hard to describe how the tongue is while the air is pushing against the teeth.

[tessaellis]

Ryan, this is a fantastic video and I'm sending it to all my students! Thank you so much for creating such a valuable resource!

[brianmontgomery]

Great video! I am giving it a try. Just so I understand, when you get to the long tones are you tonguing them or doing a breath attack?

[riandennis]

This is an approach which can be used to help students who struggle with air before the sound when articulating, correct?

[HoangLe-lgvi]

Hi Ryan from Vietnam ! What is actually means of staccato? Because some people tell me it is very short then I need an aswer
Thanks

[darryljones]

It's the tongue that's forward. The air will go through the aperture regardless of the tounge position.