Trumpet Red Lips

Using too much pressure on your lips will kill your lips and range.

Trumpet range concert pitch. Symptoms include itching small bumps loss of sensation in the lips and mouth and even muscle issues. Trumpet playing in the red is overwhelmingly not beneficial. Ive taken steps on limiting the pressure i use by playing drills at a pp level and holding the trumpet with my left hand functioning as a sort of hook.

For example the center of the lips should be moving a tiny bit forward towards the center of the aperture when you ascend and play the trumpet. The biggest thing is pressure. Myth 1 dont place the mouthpiece on the red of the upper lip.

All of these metallic elements and metal alloys are used to make mouthpieces for most trumpets. Some trumpet players have to pull the tuning slide out more and more the longer the gig goes on. This lip can be compressed easily.

And unsurprisingly prolonged lip exposure to them often leads to nasty and hurtful allergies. This is perhaps the most pervasive trumpet embouchure myth. Having just gone back to the drawing board on high register i know what youre talking about.

Campos 2005 p. Slowly stretch your lips in the opposite direction they are working towards when you play the trumpet. Watch this trumpet lesson to find out if you are doing this and follow a couple tips to help y.

Be careful not to over exfoliate since too much exfoliation can make your skin red and irritated. Since then hes gradually recovering although he lost a lot of range but he often feels numbness or pain in his upper lip particular in the mornings. Youll often hear that the best mouthpiece placement is centered on the lips with more top lip inside the mouthpiece and that you shouldnt place the rim of the mouthpiece on the red of the upper lip.

Again the shape of the top lip allows it to be compressed quite a bit. 13 x expert source mohiba tareen md. It should be avoided at all costs.

Moisturize your lips with a hydrating lip balm immediately after exfoliating. A performer whose mouthpiece inner edge is habitually placed on the red vermillion of the upper lip is using an embouchure that is not capable of producing the flexibility strength and endurance necessary for normal performance. He describes it as a kind of prickling or stabbing pain like needles in the upper lip.

Well its a perfect time to use your fingers and do a gentle stretch session for your lips. This is a direct result of the lips swelling because the swollen lips are filling the cup of the mouthpiece more and thus affect things like intonation sound and everything in between. Fleshy side of average not a lot of inner red showing.

These lips are fairly unusual in that they have barley any inner red showing but they are very fleshy front to back.