Improve your Trumpet Sound! The Basics of BUZZING the Mouthpiece

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  • @chymnster4445
    @chymnster4445 Před 5 lety +112

    For everyone saying they sound like trash, just focus and take your time.

  • @marsh2684
    @marsh2684 Před 7 lety +59

    It sounds fuzzy when I play and when others play it ( using a different mouth piece) it sounds perfect... i don't know what I'm doing wrong...

  • @chloegalloway3713
    @chloegalloway3713 Před 7 lety +150

    i sound like a duck geting killed XD

  • @bordenzuheckii1469
    @bordenzuheckii1469 Před 7 lety +20

    The dah-hee really helped me out, thanks man!

  • @kittythrobbin2393
    @kittythrobbin2393 Před 7 lety +155

    I'm getting sad because it's my first day and it sounds really bad

  • @youngentreprenuernetworks1952

    you have the best demo on this. crystal clear!!! amazing love it!!!!

  • @maazejeremiah2326
    @maazejeremiah2326 Před 5 lety +3

    I started trumpet few months ago I have been improving

  • @kimm4085
    @kimm4085 Před 8 lety +131

    is there a way to fix my buzzing? I sound like a duck more than anything but I don't want to give up, just know how to fix it

    • @olamidefagbewesa870
      @olamidefagbewesa870 Před 8 lety +5

      Me too

    • @DrMantisToboggan2005
      @DrMantisToboggan2005 Před 7 lety +6

      Keep practicing.

    • @sofialazareva1245
      @sofialazareva1245 Před 7 lety +18

      Kimberly Madume try imagining you have tiny bit of tissue in between your lips and you are pushing it out very quickly with your tongue and to get a hire sound tighten you lips a bit.Hope this helped !

    • @dukwon29kim60
      @dukwon29kim60 Před 7 lety +5

      Kimberly Madume how do you play high notes

    • @jonathanftw23
      @jonathanftw23 Před 7 lety +6

      Paul Kim to play higher notes it's good to focus on getter a good and fast air stream. that is the most important part. slightly closing the hole between your lips should help with getting faster air. and playing a lot and getting comfortable with your instrument will help too

  • @elizabethdupree9807
    @elizabethdupree9807 Před 8 lety +5

    Mr. Selfridge, I haven't seen a video in about a month. Please post more videos! I love your tutorials

  • @kevingandara1290
    @kevingandara1290 Před 6 lety +6

    Say Winnie the in your head the say pooooooooooh while buzzing

  • @clutchtimebasketball1135
    @clutchtimebasketball1135 Před 7 lety +93

    I can't even make sound!!😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

  • @SnowedAllDay
    @SnowedAllDay Před 7 lety +5

    Honestly helping more than my trumpet lessons itself lol.. My teacher is way too fast..🎺

  • @nicholaskennedy3996
    @nicholaskennedy3996 Před 6 lety +8

    perfect tutorial!!!

  • @Lin-ch5wt
    @Lin-ch5wt Před 8 lety +348

    Well I sound like a fart

    • @rodneyfarva3446
      @rodneyfarva3446 Před 7 lety +22

      Keep practicing took me a couple weeks to make the siren sound.

  • @billybob2768
    @billybob2768 Před 6 lety +10

    I can’t do it and I don’t know how to do it.. I’m struggling.

  • @christopherworkman5470
    @christopherworkman5470 Před 7 lety +7

    How do you know what size mouthpiece to get? Music is one of my hobbies. Last year I bought a trumpet at an antique store (I'm restoring it). The mouthpiece it came with is too small(slightly smaller than the one in this video).
    I'm now restoring the Trumpet for my cousin. I found out, I can't play a brass instrument because, a small old scar on the center of my lip prevents me from "buzzing" correctly.
    So, I got & now play a Bb Clarinet & I want my 13-year-old Cousin to have the trumpet.

  • @simran5557
    @simran5557 Před 8 lety +8

    Thanks very helpful going to tell my band friend to subscribe to this channel!😎

  • @manuelgonzales6483
    @manuelgonzales6483 Před 7 lety +3

    You have a great voice. Thanks for the tip. I have been buzzing with my mouthpiece with no goal in mind. Now with your advice I have a better idea what to shoot for 😁

  • @kkbrillon7812
    @kkbrillon7812 Před 8 lety +7

    we have little exercises that we do in band every class! they are SO hard!!!!!

  • @jasminsanchez5230
    @jasminsanchez5230 Před 8 lety +2

    Thanks😊😊😊😊

  • @gabenixon6141
    @gabenixon6141 Před 6 lety +9

    I have one question. For years I have played the trumpet with incorrect mouthpiece placement so that my lips were not tight. I have been able to do most things a player should be able to do. I cannot manage to get a good tone out of the trumpet if I do it the correct way. Do you have any advice that would be helpful?

  • @coopertolbert6002
    @coopertolbert6002 Před 7 lety +2

    I have become so use to playing trumpet, that when I play. My lips feel they are still even though they are going really fast.

  • @johnroekoek12345
    @johnroekoek12345 Před 5 lety +2

    Wise men say... 🎵

  • @jonaiwilliamson9049
    @jonaiwilliamson9049 Před 8 lety

    My sister is so much happy

  • @chriscook4472
    @chriscook4472 Před 8 lety +9

    This was fantastic, great help, thanks!

  • @arosek9adorbs15
    @arosek9adorbs15 Před 7 lety +2

    This was so helpful!!!!!

  • @daviddarcy4500
    @daviddarcy4500 Před 7 lety +3

    How to build endurance? I've started learning the trumpet late in life. It's been slowing going, but I'm making progress. Since the embouchure is very muscular, would it be better to practice for shorter periods of time, but practice a couple of times a day? Maybe adding five minutes to each session, just like you would add five lbs when you're doing strength training with barbells as my endurance improves?

    • @Acp681
      @Acp681 Před 7 lety +1

      David D'Arcy Hello! I've been playing trumpet for a couples of years now and what I've found that works best is to just practice when you have free time. The more the better, but as you go along you'll feel your embouchure and jaw may start to feel tired, when you get to that point, that is when you want to try to push for 5 extra minutes. Remember, as you go along, you can practice too much, and that'll cause your lip to swell for a day or two and you might not sound as clear. So make sure you give yourself a couple hours rest before you pick up the horn again. If you're just starting, or have started recently, you may want to just try to get your sessions to about 15-20 minutes, that may be pushing it, but it'll be a little bit of a push but if you can't do that quite yet, just go as long as until you feel tired, then add 5 minutes. As you go along and you feel your muscles starting to build and you get tired not as quickly, start to add 5 or 10 minutes to your practice sessions and you'll be good to go. Trumpet is a great hobby and could even do you good in some career paths, you may not go along as you may like, but don't give up, it's worth it 😊👍

  • @Lin-ch5wt
    @Lin-ch5wt Před 8 lety +23

    I can't even change the tone

    • @aaronhanson7241
      @aaronhanson7241 Před 7 lety +3

      Lin Try firming up the corners of your lips and blowing faster air, not necessarily more, if you're still having some trouble some players raise their eyebrows for higher notes, I myself don't have much successful with this, but it could just be me

  • @piggamer5194
    @piggamer5194 Před 7 lety +2

    thx this really helped

  • @seanhodgeful
    @seanhodgeful Před 5 lety +1

    so helpful! thankyou

  • @blankfaceman9694
    @blankfaceman9694 Před 5 lety

    I thought I had bad embouchure because people would say that having your trumpet too low was a bad thing and so I thought that mine was too low but then I noticed that we hold the trumpet at around the same height

  • @gelato147
    @gelato147 Před 8 lety +17

    Great video!! Can you do more trumpet tutorials?

  • @davidhouston6496
    @davidhouston6496 Před 7 lety +2

    you should do more scales

  • @cannedwater5176
    @cannedwater5176 Před 8 lety +4

    hey this was a great video i play trumpet and this helps thanks. can you make more trumpet videos please like songs?.

  • @ramoncanales5193
    @ramoncanales5193 Před 7 lety +1

    2nd year in band and teacher told me to only use my index and thumb

  • @eviltoms
    @eviltoms Před 7 lety +6

    I switched from reed instrument (clarinet and tenor) and I'm trying to learn the trumpet. Any tips?

    • @eatmyshorts8322
      @eatmyshorts8322 Před 7 lety +1

      same here

    • @victormiranda2920
      @victormiranda2920 Před 7 lety +8

      EvilTom dont puff your cheeks when you try to blow the air that'll just make it not make a sound or itl make your cheeks sore

  • @haileyjones7587
    @haileyjones7587 Před 8 lety +3

    PLEASE SO THE STAR WARS THEME SONG FROM THE FORCE AWAKENS PLEASE DO IT FOR THE CLARINET AND BASSCLARINET

  • @katy3347
    @katy3347 Před 6 lety +1

    Can you make a video on improving slurring notes please???

  • @trumpetplayer330
    @trumpetplayer330 Před 7 lety +1

    i'd rather do the pencil exercise or the Cat Anderson whisper g for building chops and endurance. Basing your sound from your brain to your mouthpiece seems to give a very manufactured sound, the vibration should come from the amplification of the horn not from the mouthpiece alone.

  • @jonathanelechicon6204
    @jonathanelechicon6204 Před 8 lety +1

    Thanks on the tips, can you do pirates of the Caribbean he's a pirate on trumpet pleas thanks

  • @bridgetb9956
    @bridgetb9956 Před 8 lety +7

    you should do the doctor who theme song on clarinet... my friends really like the show 😆

  • @favfavs
    @favfavs Před 8 lety +2

    Plss do more trumphet songs im trying to learn but i think my trumphet is too low and idk how to play high keys like the D* D*

  • @kingkong-cx1kp
    @kingkong-cx1kp Před 6 lety +1

    Sir...plz tell me.. I will Preparing for Army Musician Trails....Now I like Bugle Instrument....Plz Tell me Sir....how many Days it's learning for me....plz
    ..sir...

  • @Lin-ch5wt
    @Lin-ch5wt Před 8 lety

    Nice your awesome!

  • @chili0519
    @chili0519 Před 8 lety +2

    could you PLEASE do wildest dreams by taylor swift on the flute?

  • @astarothgr
    @astarothgr Před 7 lety +334

    I'm beginning to think that the trumpet and all brass instruments are some form of black arts, that you have to sacrifice your soul to Satan in order to master them.

  • @_hey_itz_ingrid_988
    @_hey_itz_ingrid_988 Před 8 lety +1

    First awesome vid!

  • @leolomeli1196
    @leolomeli1196 Před 8 lety +2

    Can you guys please do a super Mario cover?

  • @maungcan9046
    @maungcan9046 Před 6 lety +12

    I sound like a Elephant and I suck

  • @Dan_Moto
    @Dan_Moto Před 6 lety +1

    I have spit coming out how do I fix that???

  • @CinderCon
    @CinderCon Před 8 lety

    I'm going to have my first ever concert tomorrow!!!!!!!! And my sister will help record it so it will be on my channel tomorrow night!!!!!!!!!¡!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @baronofree1
    @baronofree1 Před 7 lety +1

    Thanks. This helped a lot. What other mouth-type-sounds do you make besides "Dah-ee" ?

    • @aaronhanson7241
      @aaronhanson7241 Před 7 lety

      Fred Bloggs Really any combination of notes make a different pitched siren. Those two specifically make those two sounds and the notes near them I would say too, even though they might make slightly different sounds I group them together. The higher you go, the more it sounds like a high pitched bee and the lower your notes the more it sounds like a slow moving fan or maybe even a bus/truck in a way, it's hard to describe (for me at least). Just remember that the basic embouchure rules apply while just using the mouthpiece as well

    • @baronofree1
      @baronofree1 Před 7 lety

      What I meant to ask was do you use slilables such as Tee and Taa for specific notes when you are playing?

    • @aaronhanson7241
      @aaronhanson7241 Před 7 lety

      Fred Bloggs Yeah, it can help you get the right sound

    • @Acp681
      @Acp681 Před 7 lety

      Fred Bloggs Yup, you have the Dah, Dee, Doo, Taa, Tee, Too, Daat, Taat, and those are just the ones I can remember off the top of my head, I'm sure there are more. 😊

    • @baronofree1
      @baronofree1 Před 7 lety

      Thanks. I'll give them all a go.

  • @ardityabaniparwitraabdurac8146

    when we make buzzing trough you lip, do we have to let voice out or the sound just come out from the lips trembling?

    • @aaronhanson7241
      @aaronhanson7241 Před 7 lety

      Arditya bani parwitra Abdurachman You shouldn't have to let your vocal chords vibrate and hum anything while buzzing on your mouthpiece

  • @paolasaucedo9925
    @paolasaucedo9925 Před 8 lety +2

    do more French horn songs

  • @kasadycasey8774
    @kasadycasey8774 Před 6 lety +2

    Mrs.rue I didn't know you had a CZcams channel??

  • @stretchy1016
    @stretchy1016 Před 8 lety

    I play the trumpet in Middle School Band. I like playing it but, I was problems playing it. I don't know if it's my trumpet, (my trumpet is old and has more spit than it should) or I'm not playing it right. I blowing air, but nothing.

  • @mandydoro3366
    @mandydoro3366 Před 6 lety

    Same

  • @decoderhacker4062
    @decoderhacker4062 Před 4 lety

    I have bigger swollen lips. Is that why it’s difficult for me to buzz a cleaner sound?

  • @nword37
    @nword37 Před 8 lety

    plz do the songs little drummer boy jingle bells up on the housetop and deck the halls for all instruments. its for a concert

    • @myanorman1773
      @myanorman1773 Před 8 lety

      wow! I did all of those songs for 6th. What a gr8 time !!

  • @dimaslinares8426
    @dimaslinares8426 Před 8 lety

    hey Mr. selfridge can got make a video on how to play uptown funk on the trombone

  • @chrisharrison5159
    @chrisharrison5159 Před 7 lety +2

    I need some help on buzzing

  • @tatyumbanks1048
    @tatyumbanks1048 Před 6 lety

    i have band at my school and i play the trumpet and i dont know how to make the buzzing sound

  • @denverscott6401
    @denverscott6401 Před 8 lety

    Tell us

  • @fazeblueberry1254
    @fazeblueberry1254 Před 6 lety +1

    I can't dooooooooooo dah dee

  • @kevinpascual536
    @kevinpascual536 Před 8 lety

    On alto sax

  • @chipmunkafy7782
    @chipmunkafy7782 Před 8 lety +1

    +MrSelfridge Hey! i wonder why my clarinet clogs up when i do high notes, please help me, my concert is on wednesday. Thank you

  • @needing_mm2578
    @needing_mm2578 Před 6 lety

    I play the trumpet

  • @khayrirayyan4695
    @khayrirayyan4695 Před 8 lety

    hey am can you guys do imperial march please

  • @maggie-ic7id
    @maggie-ic7id Před 8 lety

    can u plz do he's a pirate

  • @kevinpascual536
    @kevinpascual536 Před 8 lety

    Please play whistle by flo rida

  • @andrewfitzgerald9118
    @andrewfitzgerald9118 Před 8 lety

    Mr Selfridge can you do a video on how to play Mary had a little lamb on alto sax

  • @evropaphilosopher1367
    @evropaphilosopher1367 Před 6 lety +6

    Buzzing is the complete opposite of what you should do to improve your sound. You said trumpet playing was very "muscular" and "physical." I believe that this statement is false. Trumpet playing is 95% mental and 5% physical. You should never buzz because this can completely decimate your sound. The buzzing of the lips is not the way that a person produces sound on the instrument. The air molecules that are already inside the trumpet must be energized by the standing wave, as it is called. This standing wave vibrates the molecules and it produces the sound on the instrument. My lesson teacher told me that there is a lot of controversy in the trumpet world on how to create a sound. This is very true. Most people think that buzzing the lips is the actual way of producing sound. This is statement is completely false. There is even video proof of a man playing the Haydn concerto with a "lip camera" that is on the inside of the instrument. This shows the man playing, and while he is playing his lips are not vibrating. The air stream is passing through the man's lips and his lips are not touching at all. The video that I just described completely disproves the theory of the "buzz" being the way to produce a sound. Anyway, I am commenting on this because I have seen beginner trumpet players' sounds being destroyed because of weeks of buzzing the mouthpiece. I also know of advanced players who have done this and their sound has been totally annihilated because of buzzing. My lesson teacher told me the story of a girl he knew who buzzed and was very precise on the physical aspects of the trumpet. This destroyed her sound and she was never able to get it back. These are only my thoughts on the subject of how to make sound and how the trumpet works. You may not believe this philosophy, but I am just sharing my thoughts on how I think the trumpet works. Have a wonderful day.

    • @ryanking2254
      @ryanking2254 Před 6 lety

      I think your lesson teacher was right. Except sound happen when the player's lips come in contact with the standing waves in the instrument. These waves are generated when acoustic energy is sent back by the instrument's bell.

  • @destd5095
    @destd5095 Před 8 lety

    do more trumpet can you do five nigth at freddys song on the trumpet

  • @zachisrandom3456
    @zachisrandom3456 Před 8 lety

    Make another video

  • @bygtvygbgyhhhbhb6461
    @bygtvygbgyhhhbhb6461 Před 7 lety

    I should have used the flute I can barely buzz my lips I NEED HELP

  • @Malidakidd
    @Malidakidd Před 8 lety

    do hotline bling

  • @endlight438
    @endlight438 Před 6 lety

    I found something cool on trumpet hold 2nd value the hold 1st value for 2 seconds then keep repeating them you have a old style ambulance

  • @matthewtommy3704
    @matthewtommy3704 Před 8 lety

    Hey um I've been wounding if you can do the song chostu dynamic from dragon ball super. For flute please that would be amazing

  • @pandabear9305
    @pandabear9305 Před 6 lety

    Is this a bflat

  • @jamisonkopinski8587
    @jamisonkopinski8587 Před 8 lety +1

    I cant make good notes or sounds

  • @freiretrompete1174
    @freiretrompete1174 Před 7 lety

    exelente

  • @adebowaleadeola2115
    @adebowaleadeola2115 Před 8 lety

    can you do radioactive on the clarinet pls

  • @tcs.banana5183
    @tcs.banana5183 Před 7 lety +53

    Your tongue moves
    as if saying
    "Dah-eee" de Nogla
    Like if you know what I mean😆

  • @vishnuchanne6605
    @vishnuchanne6605 Před 6 lety

    new

  • @allisonaguilar7474
    @allisonaguilar7474 Před 8 lety

    PLEASE POST MORE VIDEOS !!!! 😠😡

  • @robyyb.8604
    @robyyb.8604 Před 6 lety +1

    This is not a good metode to practice
    Your lips dont buzz when You play

  • @yesilopez4192
    @yesilopez4192 Před 8 lety

    could you do a video for Same Old Love by Selena Gomez

  • @KM-px8cs
    @KM-px8cs Před 7 lety

    Looks like that trumpet has had a rough life.

    • @ky1972
      @ky1972 Před 7 lety

      Kyla M. it has he had that thing for awhile i know cause he my teacher

  • @cannedwater5176
    @cannedwater5176 Před 8 lety +2

    first😂

  • @qwertyuio2758
    @qwertyuio2758 Před 7 lety +1

    You shouldn't be buzzing it makes your tone sound bad it should just be warm air quickly moving through the mouthpiece. Buzzing hurts your lips in the long run.

    • @donavonguhin7832
      @donavonguhin7832 Před 7 lety

      trey, dude right on, I commented this too

    • @donavonguhin7832
      @donavonguhin7832 Před 7 lety

      try blowing in your mouthpiece without buzzing and slowly move your trumpet onto the mouthpiece while still blowing, keep your corners just dont buzz, you make better tone then when you buzz. the trumpet will vibrate for you, you dont have to vibrate it.

    • @donavonguhin7832
      @donavonguhin7832 Před 7 lety +1

      If your into this go talk to a professor of high brass like i did, he should be cool stuff that didn't involve you buzzing, you blow and then the trumpet buzzes.

  • @robloxiagamingdude1987

    Nice eyebrows lmao

  • @lifeascarlycarly8719
    @lifeascarlycarly8719 Před 8 lety

    first

  • @blessinguchunor1257
    @blessinguchunor1257 Před 7 lety

    my son can do better

  • @donavonguhin7832
    @donavonguhin7832 Před 7 lety +1

    I dislike the word buzz because you don't need buzzing to have good sound. You blow to have a good trumpet sound.

    • @wut_1459
      @wut_1459 Před 7 lety +1

      Donavon Guhin not true u need to buzz

    • @donavonguhin7832
      @donavonguhin7832 Před 7 lety

      Oh I wish I could show you, its super cool. I thought the same thing until I had a lesson with a professor of high brass, he showed me crazy things you can do with a trumpet and its amazing.

    • @wut_1459
      @wut_1459 Před 7 lety +5

      Donavon Guhin u need urs lips to vibrate to produce a sound and thats called buzzing

    • @victormiranda2920
      @victormiranda2920 Před 7 lety +8

      Donavon Guhin yes but to make the sound on the trumpet you're buzzing the mouthpiece except you have an instrument attached to your mouthpiece

  • @destd5095
    @destd5095 Před 8 lety

    do more trumpet can you do five nigth at freddys song on the trumpet