Hello, my name is John from Johnstrumpetstudio.com. Today, I'm going to tell you about the different types of mouthpieces, how they feel and how they function and what type of music they are used for. There are unlimited numbers of possibilities for mouthpiece on the trumpet. There are many factors which go into the way the mouthpiece feels and sounds including the rim, the width of the rim, the shape of the rim, the depth of the cup, the hole for the throat and the back bore. All these components have different size and feel and all have a direct impact into the way the mouthpiece feels and performs. For example, when you have a deeper cup you will have a larger volume of sound and it tends to lower the pitch on the instrument. It's more appropriate for orchestral kind of playing or cornet playing, possibly flugelhorn playing and if you have a shallower cup for example, like this, this is better for playing higher notes that actually facilitates the playing of higher notes and it's used for lead trumpet playing or for piccolo trumpet playing and I'll actually demonstrate just a little bit of that right now. On the piccolo trumpet if you play it on the shallower mouthpiece, it has a really bright compact sound. You an hear how it goes right up there. Now if I was to use a deeper mouthpiece, you're going to hear it. It won't have the same focus and it doesn't feel or sound as good. It just doesn't feel or sound as good when you use that. So, in a nutshell, a mouthpiece is a personal choice but you also want to choose the mouthpiece based on the kind of music you're going to play or the kind of work that you're doing and so for example, this particular mouthpiece that I just used on the piccolo trumpet is much more appropriate for a larger instrument. It's got a large back bore, a pretty large throat and it's a pretty wide rim which gives you a much greater volume of sound and so if I was to use a shallower mouthpiece like I was using here before on this, you're going to get a much smaller brighter sound which would be better for playing higher notes or for lead trumpet but for melodic things in the middle register, it really isn't appropriate and doesn't sound that good. And so hopefully you can hear and feel that that's just a brighter, more shrill sound. It's not really appropriate for everyday playing but it works better for lead or high playing or for piccolo trumpet playing. I'm John from Johnstrumpetstudio.com. Today, I told you about different types of mouthpieces, their usages, how they feel and how they function in different types of music. Thanks for watching.
