i play the trumpet, i can't seem to do the buzzing thing. Does anyone know how to and a easy way to do it.THX.
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There are many things that could effect the buzzing.  \n(1) Not enough air support - use your breath as a column of air and allow the tongue to break the column - do not use your tongue to start and stop your air. \n--excercises: put a piece of paper against a wall and try to hold it there for as long as possible.  once you can do that with a steady air stream then try tounging quarter notes and not letting the paper fall between notes.\n(2)using too much pressure. make sure the pinky finger on the right hand is not in the pinky ring allowing yourself to pull the instrument into your lips. your lips need to vibrate to produce a sound.  STAY RELAXED!\n(3)If you are creating a sound into your horn, you can buzz a mouthpiece. try playing a second line G and slowly pull your horn from lips, while maintaining air speed - your lips should continue vibrating.  once you understand how your air and lips are working, take out the mouthpiece and try producing a buzz.  \n\n**Remember your mouthpiece is your instrument, the trumpet is that amplifier**  if you hear an electric guitar player playing poorly without plugging in, why would you want to hear him plugged in? its still bad, but louder.\n\nLastly - if you have bigger lips, the small trumpet mouthpiece might be the wrong instrument for you - you may consider switching to trombone, baritone, or eve tuba\n\nGOOD LUCK!
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I can email it to you.  Email me at fungusbrains1@yahoo.com.  You will need to download some software to read it (http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/player/index.htm), but it won't be something that will hurt your computer.  I am a music teacher and I have it in my computer.  Also, I need to know what key you need it in.  Can you play over the break yet?  In the most common key (Bb concert, or C for you), it goes from C below the staff to high G on top of the staff.
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E D# E D# E B D C A\n\nC E A B\n\nE G# B C\n\n(mid) E (high) E D# E D# E B D C A\n\nC E A B\n\nE C B A\n\nAnd then you repeat this a few times for the main melody. Sorry I can only get you a little, but it's kinda hard to write it all out... I hope you can figure out which octave each note's supposed to be played in too (I did write that mid/ high because it was two E's in a row though!)
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That's normal. I'm a French horn player too.\n\nYou will always have that mark after playing the horn. It will go away in about ten minutes or so, depending on how long you've played. \n\nTo lessen the pain, don't jam the mouthpiece into your face. Hitting high notes comes from using more air from your lungs, not by applying more pressure with the horn. If you use pressure, you'll only get a constipated sound.\n\nYes, and chapstick is always a good thing to carry around in your pocket if you are a horn player.
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trumpet and french horn.  Less puttons to press
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If you're looking for a way to quickly play the piano you're going to love this. Listen... most of you already know that the quickest way to play the piano is by learning chords.\n\nBut what most of you don't know is what kind of chord to start out with. There are triads, seventh chords, diminished chords and thousands more. There are closed position chords and then there is something called the open position chord, and with it, you'll be able to create your own music in less than an hour!\n\nLook.. the reason why so many people have problems with the piano is they give up out of sheer boredom! They sense that it will take months if not years to create something that sounds like music on it. So they give up.\n\nBy starting out with open position chords, you'll immediately sound like a pro! Why? It all has to do with the way the chord is structured. First, it's a modern sounding seventh chord. All this means is the seventh note of the scale is used to along with regular triad notes to give it a more contemporary sound. Jazz musicians use it all the time.\n\nSecond, it covers more than 2 octaves of the keyboard giving you a very nice "open" sound. If you love contemporary stylings, you'll be playing them in no time with it.\n\nAnd last but not least, you use both hands right away to create with! In fact, the chord is so wide open that you can literally create music without moving your hands around at all.\n\nIf you love the idea of playing piano but don't want to start with boring triads or note reading, you're going to love learning to play the open position chord!
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You should play with every recording that you like, over and over and over until you have great strength and good callouses built up. Learn to 'walk' a bass line. Think of it as a percussion instrument- if you mess up don't stop playing, that will really stand out...just find the right note and keep going! Good Luck!
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I'm a trombone player, been playing for 11 years.  Now I'm trying to figure out how I can play while I study abroad next semester.
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Hi jmde,\nIf you are music fanatic like me, your neighbors should tip off the proper authorities about your talents in no time. You only need to turn up the volume and make your sounds be heard!\n-Justin
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Mostly trail and error.  Find something you really like, modify it so you can get a taste of what it would be like, and then try something of your own.  My husband has tab writing software that he writes his riffs on.  It is kind of annoying, sounds like old school nintendo, but gives you the basic idea of how it may sound.  Also helps you find the beat and speed of what you want, plus you can add bass, drums, etc.  The software is Tabledit.  I know they have a demo of it, but you are limited as to what you can save if I remember correctly.
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people!! its not blow HARDER!!\n\nAir has two qualities - speed and quantity: \n\nSpeed=range\nQuantity=volume\n\nto play higher you must blow FASTER air. \n\nDo not think about making your lips tighter as well, as you will get a strained, thin sound.  \n\nThere are two parts of your embouchure (the formation your lips are in to buzz a mouthpiece).  You have the outer part that involves the corners of your lips and, your lips.  There is another part that you cant see called the aperture.  This aperture is the hole between your two lips that air comes from.  you want to think about making this hole smaller so that air moves faster.  You can do this by pulling your corners BACK.... do not try to scrunch your lips into the mouthpiece.\n\nALSO do not push the horn into your face as well. stay relaxed, take your finger out of the pinky ring - less pressure on your face.\n\nOne last thing - raise the back of your tongue in your mouth.  This will have the same effect on your air as when you put your thumb over the hole on the end of a hose to make the water spray farther and faster.\n\nMake sure you also have a nice full sounding low range - stuff from Low C - Low F# and even pedal tones.  If you work on the relaxed feeling of playing in that register, you will build the right strength for the higher register.\n\nPLaying lip slurs will also help build that strength.\n\nA teacher of mine who saw Maynard said he wasnt impressed with how high he could play - but his low register was the impressive part.
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How do you get to Carnegie Hall?   \nPractice, Practice, Practice.  \n\nThis is the most difficult time because you want very badly to make music.  Just know that if you stay at it you can succeed. One of the previous posters had it right when they suggested making your own music at first. Try the G, C, F cord progression or the E, A, D progression.  Get a rhythm going... that's the ticket keep it up...\nThe answer my friend,\nis blowin' in the wind,\nthe answer is blowin' in the wind.
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I would totally love to do that but I don't know how to play any instruments.
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takes a deeeeeep breath- \nWe all go through these thoughts at every stage of our careers as musicians. There are of course, only four horn positions open in any major or minor orchestra, so the competition is fierce. It is a fine education for the mind, and you as a professional musician can contribute valuable things to your community with your playing and your education. But you have to get the stars out of your eyes as soon as you can, and adapt the attitude that you are willing to be a musician in whatever form is most useful and most financially rewarding to you and your area. So keep at it, go for it, be realistic, practice your hind end off, NO practice breaks in the summer, go to the BEST conservatory you can. I suggest the Cleveland Institute of Music, my Alma mater, where your horn prof will be a member of the Cleveland Orchestra. www.cim.edu \n Or Eastman, Julliard, Oberlin, the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Indiana, or Curtis Institute.
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This is a pretty vague question...are you a novice? Is your performance experience limited to the shower?  Have you trained and or performed before?  Are you familiar with the Swing/Big Band repertoire? \n\nThe answer will be different in each of these cases. Feel free to post back here again with some specifics and I can answer your question.
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well, i think others would tell you if you are smarter than how you come across to them. I've learnt that if you blow your own trumpet you tend to find people get offended by it. connecting with people sometimes is very hard work anyway!
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You've either got it, or you don't.  I can hear a tone, and tell you what note it is, with about 80% accuracy, and no matter how much I try to teach someone else to do it, and no matter how hard they try, not everyone can do it.  Just like, if you play me a random note on any instrument, I can play the same note on the keyboard almost immediately.  I've never learned to do this, I just can.  I think it is genetic, because my uncle's a band teacher, and my father is a musical genius.  There is no way to learn how to be not tone deaf.