Thanks so much for this absolute help. In just this short video I'm been places in the upper register I thought I'd never see. Your the man.

I’ve been playing trumpet for 59 years and after trying these techniques I’ve experienced playing a full 6 notes higher than before! That’s HUGE for me! Thanks for sharing this technique.

I am starting to play some notes in the upper register. I started playing the trompet three years ago. Since I am retired, I have all the time in the world, I practice and rest a lot every day. I never had a teacher, only have my right arm. But I believe I am getting better everyday. Starting to read and play notes. The timing is where I have a little problem, but at my 70 years of age, I am very excited to play my trumpet.

I love the fact that you start students with middle G. I've always thought this is the place to start and playing low C is teaching students to have difficulty playing high. It solves so many problems.

Hi Tito. Like you, I have been playing professionally since my late teens (I’m 67 now). I had the good fortune of studying trumpet with Canada’s great brass teacher Don Johnson and your pedagogy is almost exactly what Don shared with me. After a lifetime of daily practice, performing, teaching (university level) and observation of colleagues as well as students I have only one argument. By doing all of the correct things that you describe, a student should be able to develop their upper register potential but that potential is not the same for everyone. Some people I believe are blessed with physical characteristics that enable them to excel at the physical aspects of trumpet playing. The moment I turned on this video I thought to myself that that guy looks like a trumpet player. My professional life has been based in Toronto, Canada and through the years have worked with many world class lead trumpet players who travelled on the road with different performers. Probably Canada’s all-time great lead player was Arnie Chycoski who played with Rob McConnell and The Boss Brass. I was fortunate to play at his side in the Boss Brass as well countless recording sessions and other gigs. It was always a lesson. All of this to say that he had the same kind of facial characteristics as you and so many other fine players do (not me sadly). I hope this doesn’t sound defeatist. All I mean is that while we are all created equal maybe but not the same. On the other hand, the only way to know what you are capable of is to give it your best shot and in my opinion your ideas on upper register development are exactly right. Sorry for going on this long.

Hi Tito! When I was young (some 50 years ago) I had a solid G. Since then, my lifestyle and types of bands I played in (loud and louder BS&T, TOP etc.) played havoc with my chops. I found your straw analogy very interesting. When I tried it out I was able to get up to Double C with very little effort! And, the movement of my corners coming in when going up is EXACTLY how the pedal register works for me! So, now I see why people have advocated practicing pedal ones. This is my first practice session utilizing what you showed us but I'm "jazzed"! Thanks so very much. From a 76 year old former Las Vegas Relief Band trumpet player! Greg Vanboven

Love your spirit and help!

And I love your guiding principles.

Thanks! I needed this.

Tito, you are the best. Thank you

This is great. A full explanation and clear.

Extremely well put. Could not agree more. Thank you!!

Best explanation on this topic I heard yet, thanks a lot, Tito, very friendly!

Great Job Tito!!!🎺🎺

Yes Tito. Absolutely nailed it. Now I'm off to practise again.

This video is awesome. I felt the differences immediately! thank you

Outstanding job. Going to show it to all my students.

lots of ideas, thanks, excellent

Glad you’re doing well after surgery, Tito.

Thank you very much from France 👍

This is pure gold, very informative, and helpful.

Great job Tito!! Love your approach! And Blessings with your health…I feel ‘ya Brother! Peace!!😎🎺

Beautiful explanation of what you do, analogies, examples, etc. THANK YOU!!

Great video! Thank you!

Thank`s so helpul to understand this high notes

Literally changed my life’s struggle thank you so much bro! Time to shed!

I loved the video. I will be practicing these techniques.

Thank you so much for this video, cheers

Great tip that energy has to come from somewhere. 68 yr old comeback player, just for self, to try to do what I used to do in the 70's. Found I was pushing the air from lower body far too little. Think I've picked up D and E over high C, and could barely get D in my best days. Fun! Thanks!

You’re analogies for trumpet playing are amazing! Trumpet has only gotten harder since I started but this has helped a ton.

Thanks so much for your sharing. I’m looking forward to trying the tips.

this video is fantastic. so sensible and matter of fact. a wonderful explanation of your thought process and experience. your directness and candor is refreshing

Very interesting. Thank you !

Great presentation!!

TY so much great and easy to understand. Now it is time to try it. TY again for you knowledge and your generosity !

very good video, sometimes i reach high notes and i don't know how and that helped me to find. Thank you

Very good explanation. Thx for your thoughts👌.

Muchas gracias maestro!!!!😃👍🎺

Many thanks tito u r great❤

so much information. so clear. thanks for cutting through the noise

ThankYou so Much for this video✨❤️‍🔥✨

Thank you Tito. I find your approach extremely helpful. No one I’ve heard explains the inner mechanisms of trumpet playing as well as you You’re a great teacher.

Hi thanks, the straw description is maybe the best advice i ever got for my playing trumpet❤️

Excellent video!

Great video. I'm about halfway through. Glad to see someone else talking straws, I stumbled on that analogy teaching one day and was like "holy crap", this is a great way to represent this.

This is a great video. Thank you for sharing 👍

Fantastic. I’ll watch again and again. It’s so Claude Gordon!

Loved it 🔥🔥

This video is a revelation for me! Thanks for putting out such great content. I haven't played high note with such an eased feeling ever. This is an entirely different perspective to playing up there. Thanks Tito!

Sos el mejor Tito!!! Mil gracias por compartir este video con todos nosotros!!! (You are the best Tito!!! Thank you so much for sharing this video with all of us!!! you changed my life)

Great lesson Tito! Many many Gems dropped!! 💎💎💎

An excellent Lesson - Thanks for your down to Earth honest methodology. I`m looking forward to getting into those upper registers with your help. Bless you.

Hey Tito I'm just a high school student and yet when doing what you said as an exercise it greatly improved not just my range but the control of the note and pitch as well thank you so much man I have been looking for so long on KZfaq for some good advice and I finnaly found it thanks man ❤️

Hi Tito! I'm going to buy your album on bandcamp! This is a great video that makes things more clear in the "high-note world" where info are quite confusing... Another interesting fact is that in both MRI videos the tongue touches the lips to strike the note!

Really great !

Tito - thanks so much for this. Great tips. Can’t wait to leverage these to improve upper register efficiency for myself and son.

Really good thorough and engaging explanation Tito. Louis Maggio's book describes similar ideas. Thanks man.

This is incredible guidance Dr. C!!! It's helping me instantly!

The hardest part is getting up off my ass and getting out the horn to actually practice and figure out the high notes.

I put down my trumpet 40 years ago and only recently picked it back up. Of all the videos on KZfaq on how to improve range yours stands out for its clarity and illustrations. Your video described some of the same problems I am having and explained the causes and more importantly, the solutions. You are an excellent teacher. Thank you.

Hi Tito, thanks a lot for this amazing video! I'm a singer and I was absolutely fascinated by the fact that every single advice or concept you give applies to singing. Lower body engagement, long neck, small regular stream of air, importance of tongue/jaw apparatus, what we call "pharyngeal vowels", no fiddling around and tightening your lips or any part of your face and above all the two principles "sounds great/feels easy" for any note, high, medium or low. WOW!!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏

Tito you think as I have thought regarding the tongue & jaw relationship, congratulations my friend!

thank you sosososo much!

Hi Tito, man I may get emotional because I love trumpet playing to death.. you are explaining very clearly what has been my hard and long learning path and when you popped that MRI video i snapped man it's exactly where Im at. that video is so enlightening btw...Paying attention to the tongue, man I love trumpet here's a sub!!

Spot on Tito. Finaly a good video. I am playing for more than 35 Years trumpet and my new Australian trumpet Teacher tells the same 👍👍👍🍀🍀🍀

It is very interesting to me watching this video again after a year. I've applying exactly these principles, using Flexus and other lip slur methods, playing 2-octave scales and arpeggios etc for the last year and it's definitely paying off. Whereas I was struggling to hit high Cs in practice before and anything above the staff felt hard I am now playing up to high Es on a good practice day (with a nice open sound) and hitting high Cs and Ds in band when everything's working properly. I think I'm getting way more lip in the mouthpiece and then using that to control the aperture. Thanks again for the great instruction.

Tito, this is the first video I watched since finding your channel. I'm a guitarist who studied French Horn in college but has always had issues with endurance and high register. I recently returned to playing horn after 40 years off. This video enabled me to pick up the horn cold and with the faster air play right up to high C as a real note for the first time ever! Not a wobbly squeal, a real centered note! My bassoonist wife was shocked! Now I watch all of your videos! Thank you so much!

I just watched this video for the second time after 7 months and Ive leared a llot since then, and when i heard you say "hiw much air can you really blow throu a mouthpece anyway" it got me thingking so I tried it applied it to my horn and i was finally able to get to high E and it sounded good aswell. It really is mostly a mental game.

I am a similar come back player with 38 years of no trumpet after college. This Hass to be the absolute best video I have ever seen regarding use of the tongue, jaw and lower body. Interestingly, my teacher in college Renée Lemart also taught this and has or had a very nice book on it. Bravo Tito, for bringing this up and elaborating on it so nicely.

Thank you ! If even a pro like you could have such limitations, this gives us amateurs hope as well. I was not able to break that high barrier on my tuba for 20+ years. I know that easy is crucial here as I occasionally blew (almost in error) a very high note without effort, but never managed to reproduce it consistently.

Bravo Tito!

Good luck!

Greetings from Ireland Tito! You are a great teacher! Thank you! You have a new subscriber! I have been playing trumpet since the early mid "80" and I am unfortunately totally self taught. I'd get a few pointers with my father in law who was a fine trumpeter who started playing in his twenties in big band music in his brass group on a luxury liner from the USA to Britain in the mid 1930s. And went on playing most of his life. He put it down for awhile but, when he saw how much I loved playing he picked it back up. I purchased the "trumpet practice books and learned on my own. Fortunately I was fortunate enough to get a clear sound the first blowing into a trumpet. I wanted to play since I was a small child. Luis Armstrong was my favourite to listen to as a child. I have been playing since the mid "80s". I am now now 64. I can transpose on sight into different keys and have a clear sound. I practice 3 to 6 hours. But I have trouble playing very fast jazz. And I can only easily go up to F# to A but, can't go higher, only once in a while awhile. I used to love playing with my Father in law and he was happy to have someone to play with. We played a few times into the wee hours of the moring. We moved to Ireland and sadly He past away 😢. He was so kind to me and left me his fabulous and even a slide trumpet or more aptly called a saprano trombone. I have yet to learn it. I wish I had someone who could help me with the areas I have trouble. I have trouble doing the FAST Jazz articulations with many accidentals and fast double and triple tonguing. The ka ta ka ta ka... I need someone to help. There doesn't seem to be anymore here in Ireland accept someone who teaches trumpet to a marching band. And from the way they sound, I am probably beyond his teaching. I am truly hoping you can help me in these areas. I used to always play at church, but where we are now the musicians, accept for my hubby who is a classically trained violinist, all are guitarist who play by ear and have no idea and no way way of telling what key they are in most the time. I can't really play with them at this time, so I play the various Irish flutes in sifferent keys. My hubby can here what key they are in. So I play the flute with them. It's difficult to explain how I must transpose, it sounds like Japanese to them. I could play tthe trumpet if they would practice more than just awhile befor the meeting starts. So I play alone at home and somes with my hubby. I keep playing and LOVE to practice! I know someday I will play for my God and Saviour and I pray He is blessed. I willl pray that your operation is a success and our Lord who lloves yoou, give you the desire of yuour heart!❤✝️🕊🙏🏻

Awesome, thanks for the help man! 3 months in 🎺

This is the best tutorial on this subject I've seen so far.

Been playing as a rank amateur for 60 years now tinkering with piccolo trumpet to be concert tuba and everything in between. With piccolo trumpet I have learned that only a little air is needed just like you say in regards to the higher register. Thanks and I'll work on the tongue

A few months ago I picked my trumpet back up after about 35 years. High notes have always been lip splitting punishment for me. Your video has really help me. I liked the part about Horizontal playing too. I also have hit some high notes that I’m amazed at. THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!

Hey Tito! I'm a former student of Todd Hastings and I remember you from trumpet fest! Great video and I'm going to see if this helps me bust through my break. Double A doesn't like to slot but I definitely overblow which is a big part of the problem!

Dynamite lesson! Your tips were great. Including the MRI video put it over the top.

Maynard Ferguson and Jerry Catlett were important contributors. It's simple physics... smaller the aperture, continuing air stream speed = higher the note. What he describes is 100% scientifically correct. Yep control with tiny air = control.

I'm in my 3rd year of playing trumpet and the highest note I've ever been able to reach was the high f above 5th line.. (3 1/2 lines above the 5th).. and I always struggle with getting good tone with notes that are higher than the g above the staff................ this video helped a lot... thanks

Great thank you very much

Big Master tito. Always my apretiation for u. You're always amazing. Take care.❤❤❤

Yes, I need Urbanessence NOW!

Right on Tito!!

Congrats man way to flip the switch 😊

Great tutorial thank you ,keep well ,regards Jack

Thank you thank you THANK YOU!!!!

As I sit here browsing KZfaq and wearing a grey flat cap I am hoping this will help me get up there.

Thanks!

Yes Yes and Yes! I have been dealing with all of this recently and this video is a light bulb moment especially Identifying with the specific breathing for me! Wishing you well for your recovery also! We need you🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾!!!!!!

Very nicely explained Tito. Will begin working on this daily. Simple (as in not complex), and obviously effective.

You explained concepts I was familiar with already, but never worked out for me, in such clear detail that I started to trust them again and they seem to be giving me interesting results I might add to my system! Thank you so much.

Hello Tito, I have struggled with range and endurance for a long time. That tongue-jaw concept made a huge difference in just one day of practicing it. Like you, I made a decent career playing the trumpet without the ability to play anything above high F. Even then, it sucked that I could not figure out how to break through it. Thank you!

Great tips!!!!!!!!!

Tito! I'm only half way through the video, but I keep saying YES as I'm listening. So much of what you are presenting resonates exactly with what has worked for me as I can continue to develop as a trumpeter and what I'm finding works for my students.

Great lesson, thanks! Can Tito or others watching (a) suggest exercises, with or without a trumpet, to strength the lips, tongue, muscles around lips to carry out the approaches taught in this lesson (I saw Tito's cheek dimples created by muscles); (b) explain where the interior surface of your mouthpiece touches your top lip -- just the red/pink part or also a bit into the skin above the red/pink; and (c) provide thoughts on the side-to-side location of the mouthpiece on the lips because my aperture normally forms a bit to the right of center -- should I align to that or realign to center? Thx!

😊😊😊 thank you!!!

Great advices

YEAH TITO!!!