let's all take a moment to appreciate the production quality here! color, framing, lighting, sound, editing, and content. Well done.

If Arban is the written bible for trumpeters, this video is the movie bible. Charlie this is the most complete, rich, clear and straight forward video I've ever seen about trunpet playing. You are such a gift to us!!!

1. Lip buzzing/mouthpiece (glissando sirens); more volume low, less high. 2. Flexibility (mouthpiece gliss. as guide) 3. Vocalises and lyrical melodies (smooth air stream) 4. Long tones (active support muscles, play soft, breath attack with clear sound 5. Technical studies (play piano) 6. Actually play music (not just technical aspect, but in a musical perspective) 7. Endurance and range

3 years later and this is still the best trumpet lesson I have ever had. Absolute gold. Thanks for all the time and effort you put into teaching Charlie, it’s very much appreciated and has transformed my playing.

After 11 years of band to the college level, 6 years of private lessons, and 2 years of comeback after a 35 year layoff, this is by far the best one hour trumpet lesson I have ever had! Thanks, Charlie, for being so gifted in communicating these basic concepts that so many others have failed to explain so clearly.

This is pure magic, folks and everything you need to know when it comes to fundamental trumpet playing. Great stuff, Charlie! Let's catch up soon!

Soooo good to have Charlie Porter back! One of the few trumpet players who can play and teach. Loving the Monette btw

This is just pure straight sweet honey goodness. This is a gift to a Trumpet player at any level. Been playing for 44 years and yet I still learn and learn. Thank you my brother.

I began playing trumpet when I was 5yr. old. and loved music ever since - 73yr. now. I discovered Charlie Porter's videos casually roaming Trumpet videos on you tube. Charlie is the trumpet teacher and guide I've needed my entire life!!! From the standpoint of talent, knowledge and character,If you are sincerely motivated to learn how to play your trumpet the right way, look no more - he is as good as you're likely to find - probably better!!!

Dear Charlie, If you keep giving such wonderful lessons on youtube we won’t need private sessions! Thank you

Only 68k views ? For me this is like the New Testament of how to practice ;) 🙌🙌 step by step. So friendly to understand but on a professional and high level. To get this knowledge for free feels simply wrong. Thank you Charlie !!

Yep, I’m another comeback player, and this video is brilliant. Just wish I’d had Charlie as my teacher, or his videos when I first learnt. Thank you Charlie.

I’ll have to save this one and come watch it several times. There is a lot here.

The best trumpet tutorial I've ever seen. Thank you Charlie so much.

Charlie is a national gem.

Charlie - I love your videos! However....... I taught beginners for 37 years in public schools. I started my career teaching brass to buzz their lips outside the mouthpiece. We would buzz long notes and simple songs. The result was that students would pinch their lips together too much and would end up with pinched sounds. After a couple of years, I switched to mouthpiece buzzing, which is more like what you do when you play the trumpet and ended up with much better results. I don't believe in buzzing without the mouthpiece for anyone, but if you use it, players that have played for awhile would get better results than beginners.

Dear Charlie, thanks a million. Your advice, yet again, is spot on. I have been watching this and several other videos of yours, and I enjoyed them all. I love the way you present your thinking and I am in awe of your kindness. I've been a trumpet player myself for close to 50 years, familiar with many of your conceptual ideas. However, it's fantastic to be reminded again and again. Much love, your friend Thomas Heberer

I hope we all appreciate the value of these amazing videos from Charlie - a true trumpet legend. We could literally spend our entire life trying to find this information. Thanks so much for sharing your knowledge!

Yeah!! Your new videos are awesome, Charlie! Light, scenario, sound quality and, of corse, the content and charisma. Keep doin' it!

Yeah Charlie, thanks for sharing! I'm loving the anecdotes from these great trumpeters!

Fundamentally sound, insightful and clearly articulated concepts put into practice. Your gifts of teaching and performance are second to none. Thank you Charlie for sharing your gifts with the world!

Taking lesson from a Grammy award winner is gold. That grammy cought my attention so I stuck around to here the whole lesson 👍🏽

Wow Charlie...you've given us the "gold" yet again my man ~ many thanks 🖖🏾

What a brilliant video. I practiced trumpet the wrong way for way too long and gave it up out of sheer frustration. Now playing trombone and using the techniques Charlie has talked about in his videos. One year into trombone and my technique has already passed 20 years of trumpet playing. I used to think you just had to put in the hours, nope, quality over quantity!

I think this is a great summary of the videos that he's made before. it does a good job of connecting all Charlies foundational concepts in his earlier videos.

Thank you for be back

Phenomenal stuff, Charlie! Thanks a lot! Keep up the great work!

This is so helpful, thank you! The hose metaphor is really helpful for a beginner like me who tends to force the high notes.

Charlie... we appreciate what it takes for you to produce these teaching videos... Very helpful... You have a heart of a teacher, wanting to pass on what you have learned... Kudos!!

this is GOLD, I used to have lessons with Jeff Goldbach, who said that he knew as a friend at Julliard, and I talked about you with him several times. This is so awesome man, thank you!

I have played woodwinds for years and recently decided to learn and have fun with brass instruments but not making as much progress I anticipated . With all due appreciation for all the talented teachers encountered on KZfaq and other venues, Mr. Porter has to be among the very best, not only for the breath of knowledge of the trumpet and music, but an amazing ability to transmit lessons in a clear, understandable and relatable manner. Moreover, he has an extremely effective and pleasant way of communicating that retains one's interest, facilitates comprehensive learning and motivates proper practicing essential to becoming a good trumpet musician. Watching Mr. Porter's videos and applying his methodology and techniques has significantly sped up my progress on the trumpet and am enjoying it more as I now can play some easier tunes. All the best to Mr Porter and many thanks for the sharing and mentoring!

Hi , all the way from Belgium ! I restarted playing the trumpet after many years but this time i want to do it properly ! This is really useful and I never heard it so well explained . Thank you so much and pls keep on posting !!

Just wanted to give you a big "thank you" for your video's. I'm re-learning the trumpet after quite some years and your video's help me a lot!

You will forever be my sensei. I listen to your album on spotify daily. I cant believe how much you've helped me for free! Everything you said has made a big impact on my playing.

I actually play flute and sax and this is pure gold. I have never seen any sax player with such a concise sound concept. Of course there is a lot that needs adapting but the idea of an essentially unchanging embouchure is absolutely priceless. It takes some serious work and commitment but it’s absolutely worth it.

Thanks so much for all the great videos. Love these!

Charlie, I've done this for a few days and already I am achieving better clarity overall in my trumpet playing. Thank you so much for this!

Thank you Charlie! Your ideas and explanations are very well explained.

Wow, this is great! Thank you, Charlie. I'm a huge fan of your methods and making analogies. Inspired as always :-)

Great work Charlie, Thanks for sharing!!

I play the trumpet since 11 years now with privat lessons and I’m not able to buzz my lips like that, never saw it like that. Now I’m frustrated since I can’t figure it out, but you did a great job!

Charlie, it is terrific of you to share all this professional experience and knowledge, this would have been unavailable years ago when starting to learn and play in school bands and school orchestras. Thanks for sharing, so much appreciated.

Thank you so much Charlie!!

Thanks for the video! Very useful tips

This is fantastic - exactly what I've been searching for. Thank you Charlie!

Thank you, kind sir! I needed this😁🙏

Fantastic lesson. Best I've ever seen and heard. Thankyou Charlie Porter.

It's so amazing that we have such good quality and usefull information for free! Thank you so much for giving brass players all over the world this wonderful chance of improving themselves and therefore sharing the beauty of making music!

Once again you've hit it out of the park Charlie! Great video, it will help fill in some of the blanks for some of my students, particularly the simple yet brilliant concept of playing lower louder, higher softer. It even already produced noticeable benefits in my sound and accuracy/speed of lip slurs in the short time (today) that I've been using it. The Triad and Maurice Andre exercises worked for me quite well too. I think that I now have a new, "old" concept to teach with. Interesting enough, one of my old teachers, Frank Collura (former Assistant Conductor/4th trumpet/Utility 1st trumpet with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra -n the 1970's, now retired) was always going through my Schlossberg book screaming at it, while reversing all the dynamic markings from decrescendos to crescendos when the music descended below middle C to low G, but never mentioned decrescendoing, while ascending into the upper register, nor spoke of it as an over-riding concept of how the trumpet should be approached in general, but it makes great sense. His reasoning , was that the notes on trumpet below middle C wouldn't speak as quickly acoustically, so one should crescendo into them to so they can be better heard in the context of balance, within an orchestra. I like your concept which you gave Domenic credit for and am curious if it may have emanated from the French School of trumpet playing? Wherever it came from, it's now a keeper in my playing and teaching! Thanks again!

You are a Gift to the world of Trumpet Players!! Your incite, experience and presentation are an inspiration! Thank you for so generously sharing your knowledge and expertise with us!!🎺

I hope you can do more teaching about trumpet .Thank you very much

Thanks for all this info, it's really great stuff from a superb player and teacher

Sub'd! Thank you for sharing so much knowledge. I'm a big fan of Wynton. So hearing your anecdotes about learning from him is inspiring. In high-school I practiced 3 hours a day and devoured the Arban's cover to cover in the process, but I wish I had this information back then. I may have stuck with my music major in college haha. Looking forward to putting these things into my comeback routine... I'll definitely watch your other videos, as well! God bless

Charlie I watch this video from time to time and ....each time I pick up some really great advice. Things that I am doing in my daily routine you mentioned all of them.This video is a wealth of knowledge..thank you Anthony

I appreciate your teaching Charlie thank you so much

Charlie, Thank you for this video . Your videos are very well done in every way (as others have said here) and I always get some good tips. This one was especially helpful. I have been playing trumpet (with short breaks in the love/hate relationship) for 60 years and recently had a setback as I had implants on 2 front teeth fail. I am committed to keep playing and have been doing OK except lost range because I can't use pressure as I did before. Your video tips (this one especially) have helped me to re-train myself to think differently about what I am doing. You have been a tremendous help ... Thanks. We're all lucky to have access to so much great trumpet information on the internet in general. Your videos stand out for their clear well-organized content. Thanks Again, Charlie Taormina Plymouth MA

Charlie thanks so much for this video. I've followed along to it for 4 days in a row now and it feels great!

An amazing, in depth tutorial on how to play the trumpet. And true- my struggles with buzzing revealed my weaknesses and faults. Thank you Charlie for a great tutorial !

3 years playing sax the lip buzzing sirens warm up worked immediately and singing before playing great thanks for sharing your knowledge much appreciated. Big grins 🎷

Wow Charlie Porter! Thanks so much for sharing such valuable lessons!

Totally awesome lesson, you are a legend Mr Porter! Such great practical tips to get the most from your practice.

I'm getting back into trumpet playing after almost 20 years off. I still have my old practice routine written down from back in the day, but THIS was exactly what I needed RIGHT NOW! Thanks Charlie, this video really helps!

Dude please keep uploading. You are the best!!!!

Another fantastic video by Charlie Porter with real instruction to be better. Thank you Charlie!

Thank you Charlie. For a "young" trumpet player (4 years), this is Gold! I appreciate you!

I'm a sax player and I learned a lot from this video! thanks a lot for such a great video with so many great advices.

Charlie this is great. One topic I wish you touched on is how you rest throughout a practice routine? Maybe also do a video on coming back to the trumpet from taking a break. I know I'm having a hard time being consistent and motivated during the pandemic because all my gigs are gone for the foreseeable future. Might be a good topic for another video.

Right on, excellent video, great production, and most importantly, drawing from so many sources. As a trumpet player, band director, and educator for over 20 years working with young people internationally, it is so important to build succinct and practical routines for the kids on all instruments, especially addressing "why am I doing this?" Thanks for the great references and organization.

thank you for this vido. Fundamental! So appreciate your work and tutorials.

This guy is amazing. Thank you Charlie!

I love this. Thank you so much. For me one of the best videos on KZfaq.

Thank You for sharing so valuable knowledge

You went into the fundamentals of practice in general. Luckily i had already learned those in general but it is great to keep in mind and not forget. Thank you very much for the reminder and that is stuff everyone should learn for everything in life!, i hope my first trumpet arrives soon!

Such a well done video with solid and sound pedagogy! Great material!

Great lesson, great value advise, bravo!!! Thanks

You're a blessing to the horn world. Remain Blessed!

Fantastic video. Thank you so much for that. I was a trumpet player on a college band 30 years ago and now because of these videos I am seriously thinking to get back on practice. Thank you again.

What a great video! Thanks so much Charlie for sharing your knowledge with us. Now I'm going back to work ;-)

Brilliant teaching! Every brass player should watch this.

Charlie your really a flawless player, much respect.

Great tips! Nice work.

Woww Charlie one of my best lessons I ever saw!! Thank you so much for that Champion

Beautiful wisdom, Charlie!

Congratulations on the Grammy Charlie, A1 video as always

Great video. Thank you for removing my semi-guilt for including the need to play music, too. My practice always includes tunes I dream (and have succeeded!) in playing.

Thank you for another great instructional video. I want to add it's not only neighbors who love the triad exercise. Family members do too!

Charlie thank you thank you thank you. You are sharing truths in such a clear and precise way. So many will benefit.

A well done tutorial on how to practice. This is a testimony of how important the fundamentals are to playing the trumpet. The basis you have laid down to building a well balanced practice session is crucial for young players that want to advance their skills. Thanks for publishing this vlog sir!

Best explanation I've heard on how to improve. Great help!

Thank you so much Charlie for spending time on this priceless video and for sharing your wealth of knowledge and experience. It is very much appreciated. After 50 years of playing, it's back to the drawing board.

This really is a masterclass, it's inspiring how you make it look so easy too! Your violin bowing anology reminded me of Eddy Chen's lesson (before twoset) on intonation; he suggests that practising muscle memomy is not enough to play in tune but that practising hearing (or singing) the notes in tune is your best chance of consistently playing in tune. And so it is for playing high on trumpet, if you know the sound your body can find the slot better. Someone else famous (sorry don't remember) has suggested playing regular tunes 8va (15ma for you!?) to increase range and I think this really works, and probably because you are hearing the notes clearly in your mind.

Sir, great vidio. Really good explanation about fundamentals, embrochure, sound, range. Very helpful. Thanks for this master class

Great video, will take me weeks or months to absorb ... love the idea of playing more Bach ... started the 2nd Cello Suite, and it‘s both a great exercise in air flow and wonderful music to spend one‘s time with. Thank you, Charlie!

Best trumpet lesson ever.... Thanks very much Charlie Porter

Charlie, thanks very much for all the videos you have produced, they have helped me a lot. I have always struggled with range and endurance and gave the trumpet up 35 years ago, because I was not able to improve and get to where I wanted to be. Just recently my son died and I was shipped my very first trumpet, a 1968 Conn Constellation and thought I would try it again. :-) I have watched this video and downloaded the pdf file and read through it every time I start to warm up. It has helped me greatly, although one thing was not very clear and while keeping the lips flat against the teeth I could go up, but had a lot of trouble coming down and going up again. I think I discovered the thing that was not very clear to me and that is the lips at the aperture move very slightly in and out while going up and coming down, this allows me to have the range, but also keep the aperture open. I found by doing this I could go up and down so much easier and use a lot less air, without losing the opening. So I think it is a combination of the muscles pulling up and down, along with the lips moving in and out a very small amount. I hope this is clear and correct, as you have helped me a lot, I already have more range and endurance then I did 35 years ago. Thanks again, Norm

Hi Charlie, Thanks so very much for yet another great video filled with great information and delivered in a masterful and clear way. Big fan of your playing as well.

Truly outstanding video with excellent, very useful technical descriptions. You've inspired me to return to serious trumpet practicing and playing. You're an EXCELLENT teacher! (Anybody who is listening to crap radio when they're driving instead of buzzing their mouthpiece is wasting valuable practicing time.) Thank you. I've subscribed.

Muchísimas gracias Charlie,tus videos son increíbles,los tengo que ver subtitulados ya que no se hablar tu idioma,pero me parecen los más didácticos de todo youtube.Te vuelvo a dar las gracias y sigo esperando tus videos,un saludo desde España.

Thank you so much for all the content that you share with the comunity! Its incredibly useful.

An incredibly helpful video, Charlie. I appreciate all the hard work involved in it. I"ve been practicing a lot, getting slowly better - but too unfocused, getting overwhelmed by too many chop exercises from too many methods by too many teachers, great as they all are. I'm going to adopt all your suggestions here, and see where it takes me. Mega thanks.