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Forum - Trumpet Talk - Shake

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jolt8va
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Posted: 2008-02-24 02:31 CEST
There may be a thread already but I just spent 10 minutes going through the threads and I haven't seen one. I would like to learn how to execute a trumpet shake my teacher told me to play a F# and slur to a D# and practice going back and forth between them, and try shaking the trumpet with my right hand with fingers between the valves. But i still can't do it. any advice?
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trumpetgeek69
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Posted: 2008-02-27 12:14 CEST
The hand thing is actually a bad advice...... first of all if you put too much pressure you can hurt your lips so for precaution stay away from hand movement ........ next learn to do lip vibrato......learn it well....after you think you can control it try being agressive with the vibrato......do this and add air.lots of it!!!!!
the trumpet shake is all about air support and lip vibrato.........this is what works for me hopefully this works .......cheers!!!!!!!

-trumpetgeek69

(by the way........its harder to with open notes lice C's and G's.......its easier when you get to high C's double high G's and E's though)
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BGal510
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Posted: 2008-04-10 05:08 CEST
It's basically a very fast lip slur. I started finding myself doing shakes after my lessons teacher made me do lip slurs A LOT. Also, if you can pull off lip turns real well, it should happen pretty easily. I'm not that great at them, but I find it easiest in the top-of-staff F to 1st-ledger-line A range.
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