Trumpet Tips: Trumpet lesson on why you shouldn't play in the red!

Trumpet playing in "the red" is overwhelmingly not beneficial and I will give you some tips to fix your embouchure. Watch this trumpet lesson to find out if you are doing this and follow a couple tips to help you get on the right track.

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👋 MY NAME IS ESTELA ARAGON
I teach over 150 people every week in one way or another, diagnosing trumpet issues, designing practice plans and helping people enjoy trumpet playing. My life is trumpet! I'm a Trumpet Education Specialist and Consultant, founder and CEO at Trumpet Headquarters where I teach trumpet players through my Trumpet Online Course, Intensive Program, Weekly Lessons and Consultations.

👩‍🏫 I help students with: range problems, lack of endurance, fatigue issues, practice confusion, fundamental development, inflexibility in trumpet playing and everything in between. I teach all levels from beginners to comebacks after 30+ years and pros.

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[kingkeith]

This advice really helped me, i was struggling to find any information about my problem. This is gold

[thedrangler]

Coming from tuba, the “roll-in” part was immensely helpful!

[morty]

You absolute legend! 5 Embouchure tutorials later and I'm finally hitting clean high notes, thanks a bunch! :D

[flightlexx]

I was playing in the red and now I find that my range has completely reset, is this normal

[ftera]

You're simply an excellent instructor. I've taken two lessons now and they were good but yours makes more sense and are more straight forward and structured. Thank you so much 🙂👍

[trucksanddirt]

Best teacher ever. I learned this and have been playing so high and clear. The method is consistent. Effective teaching, not books on theory, etc... This video should be in every trumpet book and given to every new trumpet student.

[hightpt]

You're spot on about rolling the lips in. I always told my students to play on "the hard parts" of their lips and to try not to let the air push out the "mushy" parts. (I taught beginners through advanced players for 35 years so I had to dumb it down a bit for the 9 year olds.) Keep up the good work!

[bigbrainplayz]

YOU SAVED MY LIFE for years high notes have been the biggest struggle

[Rottingnion]

THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! For about 7 frustrating months now I just didn’t understand what to do with my embochure. when I got to the high notes and they would be too fuzzy. This video is such a treasure to me and I can’t thank you enough.

[ricksnyder]

Haven't played since graduating high school in 1959 (first chair in the band and the "charge" guy at football games) I finally picked up my horn and couldn't' make it work unril I watched this video. A little shaky but in 10 minutes I'm playing the scale! Need a little more work but it still makes the sound. Thanks for your help!

[calebboyd]

I DID GREAT IN THD BAND BECAUSE OF YOU!!!!

[just_jey]

I like how you ended the video with Strike Up the Band in the background, and my playing has already improved, thanks for the tips :)

[nathanaeldavenport]

This is my tenth video on trumpet embouchure that I've gone through. I've played a bunch of woodwinds and trombone, but trumpet embouchure has been killing me! This actually helped. Thanks!

[noosh]

Thanks a bunch!!! I have music comp in two days and now my sound is way rounder! You've earnt a New subscriber

[weebweeb]

I have 2-3 things to say about this video:
1. I'm just now getting back into playing my trumpet and I had trouble with my embouchure. I was wondering why I sounded so fuzzy and ig "airy" while I was playing.
2. I want to thank you for showing a close up visual of what I was doing wrong. Looking at this visual and trying it myself on the actual mouthpiece changed the way I sounded, and I saw what I was doing wrong.
3. This was published last year on my birthday :D

This video was also extremely helpful ^^
Thank you!

[Jaystophers]

I had issues arrise a few months ago from overplaying and they never went away. I had heard of this term before, but I was still able to play a really healthy range, so I never looked into it. That being said, while I am going to really have to practice this change in embouchure and almost rebuild my range ground up, already I feel much better. Thank you so much for this

[honda]

when i go to work i take my mouthpiece with me a 5c and practice using just the mouthpiece but glad i got to see this video it helps explain now i wanna make a my own
visual mouthpiece

[deshaunajones]

wow all my teachers were telling me to play how your telling but i watched this now i am the best

[hightpt]

I forgot to mention that putting the tongue between the lips before playing is absolutely essential. Thank you for showing that too. It's the "spit buzz" that's so crucial to a well formed powerful embouchure.

[BrooKeemBaBaYeem]

YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY AMAZING! I started playing the Cornet in 1977, and I played into 1984! I finally gave up and went onto other instruments because I couldn't play high notes and I was tired all the time! A week ago Friday, i found a Trumpet at a yard sale. They wanted $5 for it! I bought it. It's a King. I didn't want too, but I did! Then last Tuesday, the 7th of December, I saw this video up top! I watched it! OMG! OMG! You are AMAZING! THANK THANK YOU SO My tone is already Improving! But the High Notes! I don't just hit them, but I play them! Like E, F, G! I've never even tried A in my life! But yesterday, for the first time in my life I played a High A and held it twice! Do you know how beautiful that is to me! I'm 54 years old! I've been broken and living on the streets for years. I had given up on life! THANK YOU!