All About Trumpet:Blow Your Own Horn
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      • Lesson 3: Fill Yourself With Inspiration
      • Lesson 4: Basic Tongue Tips
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      • Lesson 9: Music Reading Made Easy
      • Lesson 10: Tune Like a Pro
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      • Lesson 12: Master the Lip Slur
      • Lesson 13: Mouthpiece Mastery
      • Lesson 14: Perform Like a Pro
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      • Lesson 15: Learn to Play Pedal Tones
      • Lesson 16: Increase Your Range
      • Lesson 17: Build Up Your Endurance
      • Lesson 18: Mute Mastery
      • Lesson 19: Clean Up Your Axe
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      • Lesson 20: Express Yourself with Sound Effects
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      • Lesson 24: Technology for Trumpeters
      • Lesson 25: Parting Advice
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  • Video Lessons & Extras
    • Extras: Part 1 >
      • Lesson 0: Book Overview
      • Lesson 1: Build the Buzz
      • Lesson 2: Hold it Right There
      • Lesson 3: Fill Yourself With Inspiration
      • Lesson 4: Basic Tongue Tips
      • Lesson 5: Play Higher
      • Lesson 6: Faster Fingers
      • Lesson 7: The Practice of Practice
      • Lesson 8: War & Worship
    • Extras: Part 2 >
      • Lesson 9: Music Reading Made Easy
      • Lesson 10: Tune Like a Pro
      • Lesson 11: Simple Songs
      • Lesson 12: Master the Lip Slur
      • Lesson 13: Mouthpiece Mastery
      • Lesson 14: Perform Like a Pro
    • Extras: Part 3 >
      • Lesson 15: Learn to Play Pedal Tones
      • Lesson 16: Increase Your Range
      • Lesson 17: Build Up Your Endurance
      • Lesson 18: Mute Mastery
      • Lesson 19: Clean Up Your Axe
    • Extras: Part 4 >
      • Lesson 20: Express Yourself with Sound Effects
      • Lesson 21: Double & Triple-Tongue
      • Lesson 22: Be a Transposing Trumpeter
      • Lesson 23: Learn Circular Breathing
      • Lesson 24: Technology for Trumpeters
      • Lesson 25: Parting Advice
    • Printables
    • Playalong Tracks
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​Lesson 16 EXTRAS

Increase Your Range:
How to Play Higher

PART 1          PART 2          PART 3          PART 4          PRINTABLES

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A few masters of the stratosphere

Maynard Ferguson
Conrad Gozzo
Cat Anderson
Snooky Young
Al Porcino
Roy Eldridge
Phil Driscoll
Mic Gillette
Bill Chase
Doc Severinsen
James Morrison: James Morrison is a phenomenal musician with incredible range, in more than one sense of that word. Listen to him and get a sense of his prodigious chops and sense of humor in the video for Snappy Too, below, in which he plays all the instruments in a big band except for the drums, played by the great  Jeff Hamilton.

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A good article on lip injury and prevention here.


The (controversial) pencil exercise 

as presented by trumpeter Eric Bolvin, who has some great educational material at his site.

Warburton's P.E.T.E. (personal embouchure training device)

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Cat Anderson playing lead with the Duke Ellington Orchestra on Diminuendo and Crescendo in Blue at the Newport Jazz Festival, 1956


Helpful books on range:

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More Power, More Range


Other helpful players on range:

Charlie Porter
Kurt Thompson  
Larry Meregillano 

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