Trumpet Tutorial Videos
Eddie Lewis has posted a growing number of trumpet tutorial videos where he shares his experiences and philosophies as a trumpet performer and trumpet private lesson teacher. The views and information shared in these videos stem from forty years of experience teaching and thirty-five years of experience as a professional trumpet player.
The following video links are organized according to topics and listed in order of progressive relevance.
Trumpet Philosophy
- How Different are We?
- The Total Trumpet Player
- How to Practice
- How to Become a Great Trumpet Player
- Great Trumpet Playing is Your Choice
- Is Practicing Every Day a Form of Idolatry
- The 50% Rule
- Should You Practice on Vacation?
- Making a Human Connection
- Mindless Practice
- All Physical Work for Musical Reasons
- Focused and Single Minded
- Recognizing Bad Trumpet Players
- Should You Go Pro?
- Worship the Trumpet God?
Daily Trumpet Routines
- Breathing vs Air Exercises
- Steady Air-Stream vs. Air Support
- Why Practice Lip Buzz
- How to Do a Lip Buzz
- Mouthpiece Placement Exercise
- Mouthpiece Buzz
- Lip Bends
- Trumpet Long Tones
- Tonalization Studies
- Physical Trumpet Pyramid Lip Slurs
- Articulation Expansion Studies
- Difference Between Routines and Warm-Ups
- Quick Improvised Warm-Up
Listening
Rhythm and Meter
Beginner Lessons
Performance and Competition
Trumpet Range & Endurance
Live Trumpet Lessons
Taking Recommendations
We can’t make any promises, but we are open to hearing your recommendations for new trumpet tutorial videos. At the moment we are trying to fill in gaps in the outline above. But we are willing to make the videos out of order if it’s something people want to hear about first.
The style of Eddie Lewis’ videos are very casual. This is partly because Eddie is no longer part of academia. His pedagogy is not academically “quarantined” from living people. His is a living method, based on hands-on practicality and not based entirely on analysis.