After 3 embouchure collapses in 2 years, provoked by dental work in which my front uppers had to be rebuilt, I was finished as a trumpet player. Studied with a master-student of Bo Nilsson ... I never could free-buzz to the same pitch on the mouthpiece. The pitch always dropped a 4th or 5th. I never could transfer the mouthpiece buzzing pitch to the trumpet and have it sound like anything except cr@p. Before my dental problems I a Brandenburg/ Michael Haydn kinda guy. After the third rebuild, when I could play, I was maybe good for a third part. But mentally I was done. And whenever I did try to actually play, my throat closed up on me. 9 years of no playing whatsoever. Then I picked up the tenor trombone and determined NOT to repeat all the stuff that didn't work for me. So no more buzzing. I started at my home-base, an f, and used Ed Tarr's version of Vince Chicowitz's Air Flow exercises only looking for a good sound. Who is famous for the saying "If it sounds good, it is good". 6 years later Iin 1996 completed at age 44 a teaching diploma for tenor trombone and euphonium. I then proceeded to dump the tenor trombone and took up bass trombone. Still only looking for that golden tone whenever I played. Played 20 years is a professional trombone quartet and got a gig in a local semi-pro symphony orchestra. And in all that time I've been playing trombones, I've never buzzed a tone.
The time you spend buzzing and “warming up”-you could be playing the horn. The way to get getter at playing the trumpet is to play the trumpet. Yes, there are a million different opinions on all of this.
After 3 embouchure collapses in 2 years, provoked by dental work in which my front uppers had to be rebuilt, I was finished as a trumpet player. Studied with a master-student of Bo Nilsson ... I never could free-buzz to the same pitch on the mouthpiece. The pitch always dropped a 4th or 5th. I never could transfer the mouthpiece buzzing pitch to the trumpet and have it sound like anything except cr@p. Before my dental problems I a Brandenburg/ Michael Haydn kinda guy. After the third rebuild, when I could play, I was maybe good for a third part. But mentally I was done. And whenever I did try to actually play, my throat closed up on me.
9 years of no playing whatsoever. Then I picked up the tenor trombone and determined NOT to repeat all the stuff that didn't work for me. So no more buzzing. I started at my home-base, an f, and used Ed Tarr's version of Vince Chicowitz's Air Flow exercises only looking for a good sound. Who is famous for the saying "If it sounds good, it is good". 6 years later Iin 1996 completed at age 44 a teaching diploma for tenor trombone and euphonium. I then proceeded to dump the tenor trombone and took up bass trombone. Still only looking for that golden tone whenever I played. Played 20 years is a professional trombone quartet and got a gig in a local semi-pro symphony orchestra. And in all that time I've been playing trombones, I've never buzzed a tone.
Well done!
The time you spend buzzing and “warming up”-you could be playing the horn. The way to get getter at playing the trumpet is to play the trumpet. Yes, there are a million different opinions on all of this.