In the 6th episode of Ryan's Trumpet, we explore a few foundational principles of a healthy trumpet embouchure.

Topics:

1) Embouchure as response mechanism.

2) Mouth Chamber as stimulus.

3) Mental States as stimuli (Present Mind, Soulful Creative Signal, Song, and Dance).

4) A Holistic View of the Embouchure

5) Teeth and Jaw

6) Mouthpiece placement (part 1)

I highly recommend David Hickman's "Trumpet Pedagogy," which can be found here:

https://www.hickmanmusiceditions.com/...

Keep those questions coming, fellow trumpeters!

Ryan's Trumpet is a recurring series that shares ideas and practices that have been extremely helpful to Ryan as a trumpeter, musician, composer, improviser, and teacher.

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Ryan Nielsen is a trumpeter/performer/crossover artist who loves teaching too. He is the trumpeter in the Kobie Watkins Grouptet. Their first album, "Movement," received international acclaim and was selected by Howard Reich (former member, Pulitzer Jury) as one of the 10 best albums of 2018.

Ryan has also recorded and performed with Ra Kalam Bob Moses and the Summit Brass. In 2021, he was an adjudicator for the preliminary rounds of the Carmine Caruso Jazz Trumpet Competition, "The world's most prestigious competition for jazz trumpet." He has performed as lead and solo trumpet with Delfeayo Marsalis's Uptown Jazz Orchestra, and received the Doc Severinsen Award for Outstanding Classical and Jazz Trumpet.

Ryan co-authored "The Classroom Guide to Jazz Improvisation" with John McNeil (Trumpet, Hush Point; frmr. trumpet, Horace Silver; Professor Emeritus, New England Conservatory). It is due to be released later this year by Oxford University Press.

He is currently Associate Professor of Trumpet at Utah Valley University. He has studied with teachers in the Stamp, Cichowicz, and Caruso schools of pedagogy. His trumpet mentors include David Hickman, Tom Rolfs, John McNeil, Newell Dayley, Marcellus Brown, Mark Lewis, and Steve Newton.

Visit Ryan online at www.ryanstrumpet.com