I Play The Clarinet And I Want To Know If Taking Up Trumpet Would Affect My Clarinet Technique?
February 21st, 2010 by admin | Filed under sports.I would never give up the clarinet but love the sound of the trumpet. I already play the saxophone, flute and piano but I wanted to try a brass instrument. I can already play a few notes and it has not had any affect on my clarinet playing at all. Would it be possible to play both and not affect my clarinet playing?
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No, the embouchure is completely different, and should not affect your clarinet technique. Since you can probably already read music, learning to play trumpet should be somewhat easier for you. Have fun and good luck.
I am by most thorough training a clarinetist (having studied under the principal clarinetist of the Florida Orchestra, Mr. Brian Moorhead). Several years ago I made a serious run at playing trumpet- buzzing all the time and practicing more than a reasonable amount of time to develop my chops. As the musculature for my trumpet playing grew stronger, it presented an obstacle to the proper stretching of my lower lip required for a strong clarinet embouchure- to wit, my lips became rather muscle bound.
It seems that every musician who is proficient at brass and reed instruments alike began as a brass player: Benny Carter, Idrees Sulieman, Ira Sullivan, Howard Johnson, Australian musician James Morrison, and my high school band director (a trumpet player by trade who played wonderful saxophone and clarinet) all resemble this remark. The stretching of existing strong lip musculature seems to be preferable to building such severe musculature which has been conditioned to stretch. With every due respect to the point of view of the”maestros”, I chose to back off on the trumpet in order to preserve the quality of my clarinet sound.. Have fun with the trumpet if you so desire (I still do- and I help out beginners on both trumpet and trombone), but approach any serious endeavors in developing range and stamina with extreme caution (and an instructor, too; I was picking up tips from fellow professionals who are brass players).
A purist would tell you no, that you need to choose.
I say if you want to try it out of experimentation, go right ahead, it won’t truly “harm” you. I think where most of that rumor originates is that the embouchures are so different it is very difficult to reach a truly professional sound on both of them.
As I said, if you just want to fool around with a 2nd instrument it really won’t hurt.
You can definitely.
Like Dan, I am a musical maestro, I have like 6 instruments loaned out from the school..
I major on bass clarinet, but i stopped for a while. I own a clarinet and an open holed flute, and i play trombone in my schools concert band. I play trumpet in my school’s jazz band.
if anything, taking bass clarinet back up made my trumpet ombrochure better, i mean i played trombone so much better in the festival of music (and we got gold because of my solo, yay)..
but yeah. you can definitely play all instruments.
dan and I do =D
your trumpet playing will not effect your clarinet playing, and vice vursa, i play both amongst 10 other instruments