| I had the same problem at a point several years ago. I'd read about various breathing "teaching systems" so I tried a trick out of one of them.
Find a short piece of tubing... "about" the size of the cardboard tube in a toilet paper roll. Wrap your lips around this thing and breath in and out. Concentrate on the feeling of how easily and openly the air flows in and out through your mouth and throat. Kind of like when you lower your Adam's Apple to sing a low (very LOW) note! Think about this feeling of a large, open and unrestricted oral cavity and throat.
Now... just work with that when you go back to trumpet for a while. Don't worry about high notes or anything else... just concentrate on keeping the tension out of your playing. And remember to BREATH... deep into your gut. Keep the shoulders relaxed. You'll find that after a bit of "tuning" you will have a much more powerful and resonant sound as a side benefit. |