All About Trumpet:Blow Your Own Horn
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      • Lesson 9: Music Reading Made Easy
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      • Lesson 13: Mouthpiece Mastery
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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 25: Parting Advice
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  • Home
  • About
  • Get a Book
  • 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
  • Harnum's Books
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LESSON 18 EXTRAS:

mUTE MASTERY:
GIVE YOUR TONE SHAPE AND COLOR

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Yamaha's Silent Brass Practice Mute (click to buy or learn more):

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Dennis Wick Practice Mute

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Tom Crown Straight Mute

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Cork for your mutes

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Wah-wah or Harmon Mute
Below is a Jo-Ral Bubble Mute​

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Miles Davis's Harmon mute work on the tune Autumn Leaves from the Cannonball Adderly album, Somethin' Else


This is a Hume & Berg stone-lined cup mute, a great mute. See all your choices here.

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A review I did on the Soulo Adjustable Cup Mute


Jo-Ral Bucket Mute

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A video intro to the straight, cup and bucket mutes I use.


Some plungers: Mutec on left, and Jo-Ral aluminum plunger on right.
See all your choices here.

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Listen to plunger mute masters:

Bubber Miley on 
​East St. Louis Toodle-oo ​

Cootie Williams on 
​Caravan

And Wynton Marsalis on his tune, ​The Seductress


The Hercules mute holder below. 
See all your choices here.

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A case to hold them in. Protect your investment.

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