The Trumpet Lip Slurs Guide For You

Books mentioned in the video (affiliate links):

Advanced Lip Flexibilities by Dr. Charles Colin - https://amzn.to/3uVBsNX 

27 Groups of Exercises by Earl D. Irons - https://amzn.to/3o975ju 

Flexus by Laurie Frink and John McNeil - https://amzn.to/3Oi5fqN 

There are 2 Types of Flexibility Exercises that a trumpet player can practice:

1. The lip slur

2. The Lip Bend

Both of these focus on the 3rd Core Level of Trumpet Playing which is Tongue Level.

If you didn't know, there are 7 Core Parts of Trumpet Playing as taught by Claude Gordon:

1. Wind Power

2. Tongue Level

3. Wind Control

4. Fingers of the Right Hand

5. The Left Hand

6. The Muscles of the Face

7. The Lips Today I will share with you 3 Levels of flexibility exercises that you can practice.

- Beginner Lip Slurs

- Intermediate Lip slurs

- Advanced Lip Slurs

Then I will teach you how to do a lip bend for added flexibility on trumpet.

What is the tongue used for as it is related to flexibility?

- Playing the extreme high register

- Playing the extreme low register

- Note bending

- Vibrato

- Fine-tuning

- Slurs

- Trills

None of these things can take place without involvement from the tongue.

For this reason, it is important that we learn to master our tongue as it is clearly a crucial part of playing the trumpet.

Press play on the video to improve your flexibility today.

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