Thread: Help me please

k so if i keep practicing this exersize it should help my range? also for example when i got for my high E in staff i hit it about 25% of the time wheni do the open valve exersize should i play up to the C or shoot for E?

practice the lip slurs and you'll be fine

How to improve: Warm up with long tones on all of the notes you can comfortably play. Do some excersizes to get fingers working. As you get better use excersizes with lots of accidentals (sharps and flats). Try different tounging techniques: sticato (short), marcado (loud at the beggining of the note), slur (no tounging) and legado (smooth). Try playing high notes quietly and low notes loudly as a challenge. Play a note on a piano, keep it in...

Quote: Originally Posted by donius I was wondering if anyone has some tips or online exercises to help me try to expand my range i can play the low notes and get to about the D in the staff. Hi Donius! You can find some basic exercises with instructions and sound examples from www.trumpetexercises.net

I can concur that the lip slurs are hard but it definately helps. I'm a self taught trumpet player and started my comeback three weeks ago after being away for 25 years. I do the lip slur exercises every day along with long tones, scales, arpeggio's and technical studies which I have found on the net and also play simple songs (mainly from a hymnal). I've up my practice time to about an hour and a half a day. At first, I could...