Bai Lin – Lip Flexibilities – Online Audios

Practically one of the basic pillars of the trumpeter is flexibility, which, over time, improves your range while getting the lip used to going from a low note to a higher one, with the greatest possible ease and making the minimum change of embouchure possible.

For this, this method is one of the most used in conservatories, since it begins with very easy exercises, barely changing between 2 or 3 notes, and ends with exercises that combine several octaves in a single breath. In total it is made up of 7 lessons, each one made up of various exercises of increasing difficulty. It is best not to go on to the next one until you have mastered the previous one, even if you have to repeat the same exercise during several study sessions.

Flexibility should be almost a daily job, since it is one of the things you lose most quickly when you stop playing the trumpet for a while.

When starting with flexibility exercises, when you are still a beginner, one of the biggest problems that usually arise is not controlling the passage of air well and “forcing” or “pushing” the notes to get to the note you need, so it is important to do these exercises very slowly at the beginning, and above all, with a guide or metronome that tells you whether you are changing the note just at the right moment. In this way you will be able to control the note change and not the other way around.

To do this, and since this method is complete in MIDI & MusicXML Player, it is best to do it with a metronome, or follow the musical guide to try to get as close as possible to what the exercise asks for, which is precision and ease.

Although the Bai Lin method starts with relatively simple exercises in terms of flexibility, it is recommended to use this method when the student already has a certain level. As a rough guide, this is the organization of exercises according to their difficulty: