hi everyone.. im a self taught trumpet player that also plays the sax. i am stuck on middle g but i can get up to the middle c if i try so hard and like it feels like my head is going to explode. is there a way to get higher notes but not feel like i do? p.s. i know that i should tighten up but i am as tight as i can go. ppplllzzz help

just keep practicing. thats all you need to know

i know... but it sounds terible. like i cant keep a steady tone and im like making a sound a dying cow or something would make..

air and lots of it, don`t get too tight

I feel your pain as i myself switched from a woodwind to a brass player 4 years ago and had the exact same problem. My teacher told me this-``you sound like a dieing cow shoved down the drain!``.....well that didnt really help me much but i found one thing that did--master the low notes first. if your highest, almost steady note is a middle g, then master all the notes below that to the best of your ability and work it up one note at a time. when you first start, your lip muscles arent tuned to playing a brass instrument, but a woodwind. practice pushing hard fast air from your diaphram while buzzing on just the mouthpiece. work on hiting an A instead of a middle C. after I switched, it took me 4 weeks to hit a middle C and another yeat to hit a double C. set your standards low and work from there.
the best of luck
kissmybrass

practice, practice, practice. when I was in my senior year in high school I was hitting notes an octave above the staff, at the time I was playing almost 4 hours a day. if you want to hit the high notes you need to play every day, you can lose half an octave by not playing for a couple days.

I had THE EXACT same problem seeing as I got my trumpet like 5 days ago and I can play up to 4th space C. I switched to trumpet from playing three different woodwinds. My advice to you, practice. start with low C then play D until it is a beautiful, then E and so on. Use more air too. U might also push the horn a little closer to ur mouth, that helped me too. Hey if u wanna chat with me my aim sn is oldhighbandgirl. I had the same prblms so maybe I can help further

Keep Practicing, Make sure you use your muscles and not too much pressure on the Mouthpiece.

Long Tones Really help. Ive been playing for 2 years, but my range is up to top C. Trust me you`ll thank yourself later.

NO! Don`t use anymore pressure than you would normaly use. (i.e. "don`t push it closer to your face")
Use lots of air and make the hole that the air is going throug smaller.

Tighten your embouchure and blow fast, not hard.

Benno,

When you said that you can play (on your second year) top c, which one do you mean?
the 4th space c? (which is higgh c)
or the one octave higher? (which is double high c)

It doesn`t help you when people say to practice because it is not solving anything. Do you know HOW to practice? By simply blowing more air, you are not going to get higher pitches. More air does help support higher notes, but you have to buzz faster. To practice this, buzz on the mouthpiece only and make siren noises. Your lips should feel like they are moving up and down and NOT horizontally. You do not want "Smile" when you play to get higher. I can go on, but this should help a little bit. any questions? email me.

CARL

In theory everyone should be able to hit some extremely high notes just by putting more air into it. You shoudl never have to change where your lips are on the mouth piece.

If you can a private teacher might help, like the person above me said you need to know how to practice too.

You might want to contact Dr. Michael E. Schmidt (www.trumpetofthelord.com) if you want to learn how to play high notes on the trumpet.

No trumpet player on this planet can play high notes as well as Dr.Michael E. Schmidt can play them.

Dr.Michael E. Schmidt is a freak of nature on the trumpet , man this dude can play Maynard up an octave or two.

Nobody can play notes on a trumpet as high as Dr. Schmidt can, and I doubt that anyone ever will.
Jason