Liad Bar-EL

EMBOUCHURE ENHANCEMENT
A Self Analysis and Diagnostic Method
For Trumpet Advancement

By Roddy Lewis

- Better Breathing
- Buteyko Breathing and Trumpet
- Circular Breathing
- The Glottis
- Throat Closing?
- An Immediate Improvement
- The Lip Position
- Lip Welling / Endurance / Range
- Efficiency Correlated to Range
- Efficiency Test
- Mouthpiece Prussure
- Days Off / Lip Swelling
- Lip Vibrations
- The Aperture, and with it is!
- Aperture Test
- Bussing…Why?
- Lips and Jaw Position
- Corner / Playing on 2 embouchures (high + low)
- Air Usage
- What is … “THE BLOW”
- Finding … “THE BLOW”
- Keeping … “THE BLOW”
- S O U N D
- Conscious and Subconscious
- Range Hitting and Playing
- Stuck on Double ‘G’ (here’s the cure)
- The Method books don’t work
- The Warm up is irrelevant
- Low / Middle / High Register
- My High Note Method
- My High Register Exercises
- Practice routines that work
- Pitch Centre
- Pivot
- Pedal Tones
- Alternate fingerings above High C
- Long tones / Nada Yoga
- Tension good / bad
- Mouthpiece characteristics
- Mouthpiece … which one(s)
- Mouthpieces small and big
- SkyRocket Mouthpiece
- Starting beginner + Players ‘chop’ change (starting from scratch)
- OFF HORN exercises
- Melody maladies
- Lesson information
- Trumpet online forums
- M E T H O D B O O K R E V I E W S
- End statement

This is one of the best books that I have ever read. It’s concise, precise, easy reading and lively. Excellent job on this one Roddy.

If you’re a comeback player, this is the book for you.

Liad Bar-EL

CornetT

I too have studied Roddys books, and cannot praise them highly enough. The books deal in depth with all the aspects of playing listed in the above post - and deal with them in language that is easily understandable, and with humour.

Have you ever wished that you could play those megga high notes with total ease and control?.........then buy the books.

Anyone living in the UK - buy the books, then get yourself off to see Roddy and have a three hour lesson - no question at all, its a must for any brass player wishing to improve.

Guess what I have bought my girlfriend for Christmas..................yes a thee hour lesson with one of the few people that have mastered that piece of plumbing we call a trumpet :)