| Andrew,
The reason for the airy tone is you are pushing in the mouthpiece too much, not allowing the lips to vibrate. The lips HAVE GOT to vibrate to create the note.
The higher range requires more focused air vibrating a smaller area of the lips. The softer dynamics also require a smaller area vibrating. So therefore, soft dynamic playing would help you work on higher range playing.
I am not going to say use more air to create the higher tones, and here's why. If you get the chance to watch a great trumpeter play, watch as he holds out a low C, then a high C. He cannot play the low C very long. It takes a lot of air to vibrate all the lip required to create this note. A high note does not require all the air hitting the lips. It actually requires you to focus the air into a smaller area to vibrate the higher note. DO NOT use the throat to clamp the air stream.
Slurs and chromatics, Clarke would help. Also, reading etudes and exerpts that take you into your problem register would be helpful. Voxman Concert and Contest Pieces, Arban, Herring.
Also, doing vibrato on higher notes have seemed to help me with my upper register.
Van
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