| Maybe the Kanstul trumpet plays much more "open" than your previous horn and you need to "control" the accented note more. Don't try to "blast" it as loud as you might have been used to and I'll bet it smoothens out a lot for you. Try playing the note "tenuto"... and increase the volume while thinking about SOUND QUALITY. Then keep working at it, making it shorter and shorter but maintaining the QUALITY of the sound. If it's being played "loud" but sloppy, it's going to sound much worse than "quiet quality and in tune". And don't "spit" the note out. That accent just means to make it "bark" a little but keep it clean. Don't cut it off with your tongue.
Perhaps D. Bacon would chime in here. |