This has appeared randomly on my feed while I am away on holiday without my trumpet! I’m 70, played for 60 years as a good amateur and am still big band competent but never knew about this technique! I cannot wait to get home and start practicing.

Does this mean that if i straight upper teeth, i wont be able yo do this?

I started watching this and was so sad to see it used teeth as I've lost most of mine :o(

Woah, I was doing this to hit a G6 consistently and just played a Db7 using this method. Thank you.

Mr Mayes, How well does this transfer to trombone?

I am able to hit high C but it does not speak!!!

Me who has a Gap in my teeth

The sec'ret saws 'is 'avin fukd up teef, yeh Jokes, i just don't have a gap and can't use this technique :(

Thanks a lot for your explanation. You are a trumpet master. I'm a professional trumpet from Barcelona (Barcelona)

If anyone could do it in just 5 minutes - why don't everyone do it? Simple question. I will tell you why. Because almost everyone will need to build the neccessary muscle in - and around their lips to be able to control the very small aperture - and the very high air pressure that you neccessarily have to build with your lungs, chest and abdomen. That takes years. You have already spent the years, and you have built all that muscle - gradually - unnoticed (or at least unremembered) by yourself. I dare you to tell me you were able to go up to he C above the line during your first year of playing. Playing scales and practice systems (like the Clarke) and work at it, and the notes will come by themselves, one half note at a time. This needs time. Years. Not minutes.

Thanks Paul!!! It is very good explanations! i'll try to do it - kzfaq.info1HxP903sVK0?feature=share

Interesting approach! I have a gap between my teeth so I'm starting to wonder if this will actually work xD I have the issue of actually doing a lip buzz at all, I can't even blow raspberries most of the time.

Paul.....you are full of it.

I need some advice. I am a young 72 yrs old who’s been playing a Bach 1.5C on a Bach 37 ML bore for over fifty years. At 69, I decided to get braces to realign my teeth and I just got them off two weeks ago. I have been surprised at the progress I’ve made in just two weeks, however, they aligned my teeth perfectly but the 1.5 just doesn’t feel the same in the upper register. I know that it’s only been two weeks but I would like to think there may be a transition size that would make the upper register just a little easier and still keep that big sound. This would be the perfect time to change as I would have plenty of time to get used to the new mouthpiece. I would not have a problem paying for the Monette mouthpiece but I also know that you can’t expect miracles from just the mouthpiece. What are your thoughts ?

Yes, of course, using what you have is an excellent shortcut to hit the target faster and better, with less effort, less lost of time and furthermore it is more natural and comfortable.

I'm 59 years old, an avid recreational/semi-pro player. I used to have way exceptional upper-register chops, big fat lead player sound, lots of sizzle. No, I'm not inquiring about how to get my upper register back (I fear it's long gone--I've tried everything to get it back, to no avail.) Actually, I'm trying to figure out how to play SOFTER, mostly for church gigs. I just can't seem to play anything north of D or E without blowing fortissimo, especially if it involves tonguing (staccato). If it's slurred, I'm okay. If I back off to p or even mf, I can't produce a sound. What's wrong with me?!!!

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thank you very for sharing your knowledge , about playing trumpet. i like your way of teaching. from philippines po.

muchas gracias.

Thanks Prof Mayes!!!!!! My question: May it be possible to have a gap too big to be useful? My upper front teeth have a gap between them 3 or 4 mm wide and I am not succesful in generating high pitched notes in the described way by now.....

You're a genius. The double apachure works.

Hi Paul it's now nearly two months since I took an hour and a half consult with you. If you remember I have been playing trumpet since 1996/7 with the last four years laid off. What you taught me to do was no less than what you do on tour videos MDAS-wise. The difference of course is that I have my very own gap in my teeth and you found it mate you really did. The point of this comment is that I never had a solid note above the F# top line of the treble clef. I tried out all the experts on youtube with tongue positioning and buzzing (which i can not and never have been able to do properly) these guys can really play as you all know many of them are top-notch professional trumpet players who get paid in the best orchestras/bands regular and jazz, for playing high - but - none of their advice over 26 years(well 22yrs actually with the recent 4-year break) none of what they offered has been of any use to me. Despite how hard I practised and moved my tongue about and practised and practised. Eventually, after about 10 years I just thought Steve you just don't have what it takes. So just carry on sitting on 3rd cornet forever, that's the best you will ever be just do that to your best ability and be happy. However, at the age of 73, after a four-year break, I had an online consult with you Paul. We did some breath stuff which I found helpful Then I continued to do what you asked me to do with the predetermined resignation that I would fail again. . Then you had a look at my top and bottom teeth and told me exactly where to place my lip under a specific tooth and blow in the same way that I had done two minutes before but without trying to play a note, just blow. On an open embouchure without any real effort out came a D6 and then an F6. I was totally astonished (in the UK we say gobsmacked) because, in less than ten minutes of working with you, I was easily knocking out notes that I had never ever heard myself play, and in a higher register than I though was possible for me EVER!!!!!!! At the end of the consult you advised to do the work and keep practising and experimenting which I have. It is perfect, well no, because I still have to practice trumpet technique and all that articulation stuff. But the basic setup for my trumpet playing is totally different to what it was before and it works every time. I play in a community wind band I am asked - "how long before you came back to band did it take to get my "lip back in" and I just say an hour and a half. Thanks, Paul Steve

You're right. I'm 83, played 4th trumpet with the Johnny Hall big band as a teenager around the American airbases in the late 50s and wish you'd told me this then, though most 4th trumpet parts rarely went over F at the top of the stave. Went on to play tenor sax with Nottingham University Big Band (q.v. "Teamesville" on Spotify). Bought a trumpet a couple of years ago, but found range a problem - but (and it's 11 p.m.) I've already hit top C on my mouthpiece but got to wait until the house is empty tomorrow to make it happen (and possibly upward) on my horn. Thank you Prof. I wrote this before looking at other comments (which I have just done now) and am looking forward to getting my 5 year old grandson to start saying M into a C cup mouthpiece. Probably his mother won't approve, but how did Charlie Turner (who I met, incidentally, on a flight from Johannesburg to Buenos Aires for the Frank Sinatra final tour) start?

Rolling the red part of the lips inward is what you are really talking about. I love how you talk about trying to expand the range of the trumpet player. I try not to call it high not playing. More like the command of the horn itself, with the proper embouchure formation you will have great command of the horn.

Without offending anyone, what is the system for those with perfect teeth? Is there another video for that? Thank you :)

Thank you very much for your explanation, I am eternally grateful... I share your videos here in Brazil

You blurred out Adam Rappa??? That’s kinda funny to me. But honestly yes your suggestions are great and very detailed. I found that the gentlemen you blurred out Adam Rappa if he really is your friend could have told you what he does. He has a more direction of airflow technique as well as building muscle memory.

OMG im so gratefull. Ive been playing trumpet for 10 years and could play to f on top of the staff with alot of efort. I got big overbite and no one could tell me why i just cant go higher. I was in music school i had best private lessons and everyone wanted to help me but no one could. Some was saying im not practiceing enough (i was practiceing 3-5 hours a day every single day) some said i had stage fright (but i had no stage fright in my ammateur band when i didnt had to play high). My best teacher showed me everything he could, but he just had No overbite so he didnt knew whats problem. Yesterday i watched this video and today IN JUST ONE DAY im playing most jazz standards i could play shifted up an octave!!! Its not perfect like it was in lower octave but im not even tired!! This is not a problem since i was doing big emboshure changes many many times before i will get there in No time. At the moment it feels like very minor change that makes a huge diference. THANK YOU!!!

How do I go from making super squeaky gross noises to getting an actual high note? I can’t seem to get any real fast vibrations despite trying to find my personal high embouchure.

Or you could work on pedal tones. I used the Charles Colin pedal tone stuff along with the Cichowicz flow studies, Concone and Charlier #2 and achieved a searing Double C in 5 months. Eventually got to the G above with almost no pressure. Just a thought...

This really helped! May I ask what mouthpiece you use?

High notes are not "faster" vibrations, they are MORE FREQUENT vibrations. And we ALL tension the lips to play higher, that is what controls the frequency (not the "speed") of the tone.

As I relax the top lip I feel it is now responsible for the vibratiion while the lower is less so (not absolutely sure about this). Almost as if the top lip is playing the equivalent part of a sax reed while the lower is the surface of a reed mouthpiece it vibrates against. The larger mouthpiece of a trombone, for example certainly feels like both lips are moving equally.

Interesting. After highschool I joined the Marines and they fixed a gap created from a chipped tooth. I played with the gap through school and actually had a high f with not too much difficulty. Not until checking out your video did I start thinking about a gap. Well I don’t have one. Playing with ease to a high E is a challenge. What would you suggest?

I wish I knew this stuff years ago. I still would like play consistent high d, e and f.

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Whats the name of the piece on the end of the video?

Hi Paul ,As a test, I tried "buzzing" (with no mouthpiece) using your method (bottom lip touching top teeth) and then using just both lips together. Your method started my lips to vibrate much faster and more effortlessly . Thanks !

Apologies if this has been asked and answered but what about people like myself who have had braces? I have to front tooth gap to use.

It is right for the lips to vibrate when playing it

This video seems cryptic. Are you saying to use your teeth somehow? It isn't clearly explained.

I'm a high school trumpeter that's struggling to play beyond high C above the staff and I think I have MDAS as my left front tooth is slanted with a small gap, but I can't seem to put that MDAS aperture together with my pitch aperture.

Thank you so much. I was stuck on e for so long and I hit a double g easily!

Video could've been about two minutes

Parabéns Prof. Obrigado. Estou recomendando seu canal em meus vídeos e canal.... Muito bom. Congratulations Prof. Thanks. I am recommending your channel on my videos and channel. Very good,

Just great and amazing! Greetings from Brazil!

Tongue placement. When tonguing in the high register, behind the teeth or higher up on the alveolar ridge?

Im a natural proffesional player being able to play up to high g above the staff daily. Although with tension in my body and shops if playing loudly. I actually think i have been using some variation of these since i was little (around 15). And this video really explained what is happening, i will experiment more with this!

Ok, I think this is what's going on: The upper set of front teeth are, in effect, acting as a clamp on the lower lip -- so its excursions are constrained / limited. In other words, the teeth are limiting the ability of the lower lip mass to 'flap about'. In effect this is increasing the resonant frequency of the lower lip, taking some of the load away from the lower lip orbicularis oris muscles. Hence higher notes are easier to obtain.

What's going on with the constant video frame cutting ?