Advancing Your Trumpet Playing –Mastering Lip Flexibilities Part 1.3

Body Position

You should find the strongest position for your body to generate the best air flow possible. Be aware that a bad posture will result in fatigue and possible long term playing issues. For Example:

You often see these sorts of styles of playing and it’s easy to fall in to them even if they don’t physically suit you. In theory these types of playing cause restrictions in your Diaphramatic (lower), Intercostal (mid) and Clavicular muscles (upper). If you look at My Studio Page you might see a hint of 1.1 in my Abbey Road Picture – this has now been corrected and was more because I thought it looked cool for the photo at the time 😛

Be Aware

This can turn can give you the physical sensation you are looking for in the torso which is the reminder that you are blowing properly from the diaphragm muscles*
However, the posture restriction means that you are not using your muscles to their full potential. Some of them are being used to make sure you don’t overbalance and fall over.

I’m sure your seen this a thousand times but I’ll expand on this position in the next post.

* The diaphragm is an involuntary muscle – Don’t get confused when you see this term. It actually refers to a collection of muscles that work together within the torso that create the air stream.