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Originally Posted by commakozzi  I love to whistle to what I'm listening to, especially jazz. However, after a hard day of playing I find that I have horrible response when whistling, and I have to blow harder to get a sound. What's the correlation here? Is it bad for your embouchure to whistle? I know that might sound silly, but my guess is that my embouchure set up is at odds with my whistling "setup". Any thoughts? |
Whisling uses many of the same muscles as trumpet playing.
If you find yourself without a trumpet to practice on for a few days, such as after dental surgery, whistling is a good way to exercise some of those muscles so that they do not weaken while not playing the trumpet.
Whistling shouldn't hurt your embouchure.
If anything, it should strengthen it.
But, of course, over-doing it will lead to muscle fatigue, just as you describe.