Trumpet tip, Jaw Position and The Upper Register

Thank you for all of these videos you left us, Jon. I use these in my teaching and often include a funny story about you from the old days. RIP, man - you are missed.

Honestly this is the best video on trumpet hight range. The reason is that you explain it in a objective way, paying attention to the physics. Thanks a lot for posting this pure gold!

crazy good teacher ... no limits! Many thanks from Australia.

wow! I have listened to others talk about going high, but your demo and discussion suddenly made it easy for me to understand. Also, I am 76 and haven't played my trumpet since the late 60's. I was a good player then but never learned what you covered in 15 minutes. As an engineer, I suddenly realized what you are doing is creating a variable sized resonant cavity behind your teeth with your tongue and jaw. When the sound can resonate In the proper sized cavity, then it takes much less energy than if you were to brute force out the high note. Voila! Now I can do even a mouse squeak without much strain! Thanks.

This is a terrific explanation of trumpet mechanics. Best I have ever seen or read about, and I have seen and read a lot on the topic.

Now I can feel the muscles in my chin working. Wow! This is great.

John, thanks again for a great video. Full of good insights and really showing the mechanics of your face and air and how they work together.

Thank you, John. My lockdown project is to increase my range and your demonstration and explanations are so clear and logical. Thank you.

You’re the best on YouTube for this kind of content, PLEASE don’t stop we need you ...lol 👍🎼🎺

Best trumpet advice in the whole of the internet. Great teacher!

Awesome. Sure wish I’d had this information back when I was struggling to figure out how to play the trumpet. Thanks for some really good info!

John.. very excellent presentation. Very helpful. Thanks 🙏

you’re a very good speaker! i enjoy listening to what you have to say

Yes! The tongue, lips and teeth all meet. The way he describes the bottom lip, chin and tongue is more similar to Superchops (Tongue Controlled Embouchure) than any Reinhardt or Stevens as mentioned by other commenters. Many people play that way without realising it, but when you clearly show how and why it works it's good for everyone. Thanks for sharing.

What a great overall understanding of how one brings it all together! I find that working on doing relaxed 3 octave scales up and down using good articulation helps set the mouth, and then as you say the jaw position for each note becomes obvious! Then widening the intervals! I discovered that there is an embouchure that develops in conjunction with application of this skill into a kind of whistle shaped embouchure, that makes slotting the notes very easy!

This is the clearest explanation and demonstation of these concepts that I've ever come across. Thanx. John!!

Thank-you for this one John.

only video i’ve seen so far that relates jaw positioning to octave. thank you!!

What a great teacher!

Hey Jon! Great video. Thank you!