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Step 5 - The Embouchure: How To Use Your Face Muscles

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Step 5 - The Embouchure: How To Use Your Face Muscles

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Watch this video to learn how to form your "Trumpet Face".

Key Points:
- Say "mmm"
- Firm corners
- Flat chin
- Use a mirror
- Relax the center
- Teeth slightly apart
- Tongue flat

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Step 6 - The Buzz: How To Make Sound With Your Lips

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Step 6 - The Buzz: How To Make Sound With Your Lips

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Watch this video to learn how to buzz your lips.

Key Points:
- Just blow
- Don't be too tight or too loose
- Start without mouthpiece then bring mouthpiece to lips
- Sirens

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How to Buzz Your Lips for Trumpet Playing

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Always put your case flat on the floor with the label up.  Turn the case so that the clasps are facing you. Now you may open the case.

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Step 7 - Where To Put the Mouthpiece on Your Lips

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Step 7 - Where To Put the Mouthpiece on Your Lips

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Watch this video to learn where to put your trumpet mouthpiece on your lips.

Key Points:
- Center
- Half of mouthpiece on top lip and half on bottom lip
- Find your airstream and put that stream in the center of the mouthpiece
- Mouthpiece should not be on the actual lip flesh

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Trumpet Mouthpiece Placement for Beginners

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This tool is called a METRONOME. Musicians use it when they practice in order to improve their time.  You can buy one like the one in the picture from a music store. OR you can look up a free metronome.
Google: metronome
It comes up right at the top.

This one is also good: https://www.imusic-school.com/en/tools/online-metronome/

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Fingering shown in video:
C - 0 fingers
D - fingers 1 and 3
E - fingers 1 and 2
F - finger 1
G - 0 fingers

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Step 8 - How To Play Your First Notes (continued)

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Step 8 - How To Play Your First Notes (continued)

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More information about how to play your first notes.  This teacher is very detailed.  Pause the video to try his tips.

Key points:
- Keep teeth and lips apart
- Don't squeeze or pinch your mouth
- Tonguing tu tu tu tu
- Sirens for high and low sounds (When buzzing, say "ah oo wa" or "ta ee ya" with your tongue changing shape.)
- Don't mash the mouthpiece or slap or pop it.
- Don't move jaw

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Step 9 - Basic Care + Deep Trumpet Cleaning Instructions (once every two months)

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Step 9 - Basic Care + Deep Trumpet Cleaning Instructions (once every two months)

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Key Points:
- Polishing cloth (keep fingerprints off weekly)
- Mouthpiece brush (lukewarm water & liquid hand soap weekly)
- Look for the number on the valve (1, 2, or 3) so you can put them back correctly
- Pay attention to how the slides come out
- LUKEWARM WATER ONLY otherwise you may take the shine off
- Give the parts a bath (but DO NOT put the valves in the bath)
- Use the snake brush to clean the pipes
- Use slide grease on the valve slides after giving a bath

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Watch this video in full screen mode.  Learn about:
- What the trumpet is made of
- The trumpet parts
* lead pipe
* main tuning slide
* water keys
* valves 1, 2, & 3
* valve slides
* bell

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Beginner Trumpet Lesson 2 - The Parts of the Trumpet

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Prepare your trumpet to play smoothly.  Oil your valves!

Key Points:
- Oil the valves one at a time
- Always turn the valve until it "clicks" and doesn't move after oiling
- If air doesn't go through the trumpet, you haven't "clicked" your valves and they aren't in the correct position

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Watch this video to learn how to hold the trumpet.

Key points:
- Left thumb in thumb saddle
- Other left hand fingers around valve casing (ring finger in ring)
- Right hand thumb under lead pipe and between 1st and 2nd valve casing
- Right hand fingers 1, 2, 3 on top of pearls. Pinky on top of pinky rest.

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