Originally Posted by cornetguy

I do do the Thompson book on the mouthpiece and the trumpet only with the CD. If I dont have the CD avalible, I just do it on the trumpet, or sometimes for time reasons, i will do it just on the trumpet. <---- I can relate....for time reasons I will usually do it only on the mouthpiece.

There are times I find I buzz differently then I play. Anything to do to fix that. <---- Ah ha! The reason for doing these on a BERP with horn in hand is for this reason exactly! Simply holding the mouthpiece and buzzing does not replicate what you are doing when playing the horn. THAT is why you do the mouthpiece part of these exercises with horn in hand and mouthpiece in a BERP. I use a cylindrical piece of wood with a hole in the top. I then insert the BERP and then the mouthpiece. It has finger holes as a guide where to put my fingers (about the same distance away as when I am holding the horn). This way, if I don't have my horn at the ready, I can still do these exercises with the correct feeling on the mouthpiece.