Exercises you can do off the trumpet

_TrumpeT_ · 07-14-2006, 07:26 AM

What are some exercises you can do off the trumpet specifically related to trumpet playing? (Every musician should study music theory and train their ears IMHO) I'm not advocating the use of any gimmicks here. Here are some of my own ideas:
sing... this sounds strange but it's a great exercise especially when learning an instrument that can produce only one pitch at a time (most of the time anyway)
fingering your part
co-ordinating valves while tonguing... this actually works! The double tonguing section of the third variation of CoV just clicked! I also tried this with chromatic scales for my single tonguing.
Please post some of your own ideas!

Schwab · 07-14-2006, 11:24 AM

Listen to music.

tpter1 · 07-14-2006, 01:22 PM

Breathing; concentration builders (ie. mental imaging games); articulation (just practice tooh/toh; t-k; tkt; ttk, etc.) while driving, walking, riding mass transit (one way to guarantee a seat on a crowded bus or subway!); "sing and fing" through scales and scale studies (sing it and do the fingerings).

HoboTrumpet · 07-14-2006, 01:30 PM

I like to spend a few minutes every day with one of those finger exercisers for guitar players. Helps keep the fingers fast and strong, which for me means more accurate valve action.

Brekelefuw · 07-14-2006, 07:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by HoboTrumpet

I like to spend a few minutes every day with one of those finger exercisers for guitar players. Helps keep the fingers fast and strong, which for me means more accurate valve action.

Can you give an example of a finger excersizer for us non-guitar playing people?

Jerry Freedman · 07-14-2006, 08:57 PM

The pencil exercise. Controversial but it does work for some and it worked for me. Free buzzing, lip buzzing without a mouthpiece. Again controversial but it does work for some and worked for me. Let the flames begin

trumpet blower88 · 07-14-2006, 10:13 PM

Learn to play the piano.... Or any other instrument for that matter.

_TrumpeT_ · 07-15-2006, 12:11 AM

I think learning the piano is very good whatever instrument you learn. But I wouldn't advocate learning other wind instruments at the same time as learning trumpet.

trumpet blower88 · 07-15-2006, 01:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by _TrumpeT_

I think learning the piano is very good whatever instrument you learn. But I wouldn't advocate learning other wind instruments at the same time as learning trumpet.

I think it's alright to learn other wind instruments, as long as you can focus on trumpet as your primary instrument. The only thing I would suggest is staying away from the double reeds. They can mess up your chops, plus I don't like the sound of oboes....

HoboTrumpet · 07-16-2006, 01:52 PM

Here is the brand of finger exerciser that I use:

http://www.gripmaster.net/gripmaster/

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_TrumpeT_ Piano User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 312	Exercises you can do off the trumpet What are some exercises you can do off the trumpet specifically related to trumpet playing? (Every musician should study music theory and train their ears IMHO) I'm not advocating the use of any gimmicks here. Here are some of my own ideas: sing... this sounds strange but it's a great exercise especially when learning an instrument that can produce only one pitch at a time (most of the time anyway) fingering your part co-ordinating valves while tonguing... this actually works! The double tonguing section of the third variation of CoV just clicked! I also tried this with chromatic scales for my single tonguing. Please post some of your own ideas!
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Jerry Freedman Pianissimo User Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 98	The pencil exercise. Controversial but it does work for some and it worked for me. Free buzzing, lip buzzing without a mouthpiece. Again controversial but it does work for some and worked for me. Let the flames begin

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_TrumpeT_ Piano User Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 312	I think learning the piano is very good whatever instrument you learn. But I wouldn't advocate learning other wind instruments at the same time as learning trumpet.
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HoboTrumpet Pianissimo User Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: New Ulm, MN Posts: 91	Here is the brand of finger exerciser that I use: http://www.gripmaster.net/gripmaster/
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