u/MarionberryBasic8187

I am learning Rude buster which has a scroll speed of about 6.4 on expert and 8+ on E+(I cant do it yet so im learning expert)

BUT I CANT HIT THE NOTES ACCURATELY

Ive learned it in 50, 55, 60, 65, 70+% but i cant seem to hit them

They just fly by me even though i hit them its so frustratinf

My hardest rn is spin eternally on expert mode which has 1.6k blcoks and a scroll speed of 5.2 or sum but this song is somehow harder imo despite having 3x as less blocks

Im so close to droppinf this fucking game and sticking to gd because at least GD is more forgiving

I get an insane amount of anxiety when i think about going to college band or doing any sort of audition for a professional gig of sorts...

Were any of yall ever like this???As a senior in highschool I am currently on 1st part in marching band, section leader, and 2nd chair in symphonic but restarting and having to reaudition with nearly 50 - 60 other trumpets really gets me scared of not being good enough

I practice and stuff all of the time but it feels like ill never reach my goal of being on 1st and becoming section leader again in college.....

Its just so competitive it feels like even if i do practice 2x as much as i do now, i still wont reach the goals i want

im 6 foot 203 im big ash but i wanna be able to do that one balenci pose sitting down yall know what im tb

i would do one but doing one with 36x38 jeans seems like a fucking crime lmao

do i just pack this shit up and just wear normal clothes or do is there still hope

ik the bleood build is impossible fa someone my size but i wanna be cool and where the skinny jeans too bro

I posted on here asking about the approach to get used to a lead mouthpiece a couple of days ago but ive reached my limit

I switched to a schilke 14a4a from a yamaha 14b4 (3c equivalent) and at first it was all peaches and cream and i was able to get up there more smoothly and stuff

But as of recently it has been corroding my sound

Not to mention soon as i adopted the mouthpiece i lost my high F# and G which sucked

But noe its thinning my sound all the way... i used to be able to scream es to gs as loud as i wanted to but now its sucking away my sound and im only able to play them like 40% as loud as i used to be..

Am i doing something wrong? Im trying to be patient and do the exerscies yall told me to do but it seems futile

The only good thing about it is it spreads my chops out so if i were to play super high shit as loud as i want for lets say 20 mins id get tired on my 3c

but on this one im at least still able to play Fs and shi after practice although the gross volume across all notes are greatly diminished

Is all a lead mp good for is saving ur chops in exchange for your sound? If thats the case, ill switch back to the 3c even though it makes me wanna kill myself when i play super high shit in the stands....

Its helped my Cs and Ds and even Es becime more volatile but otherwise it seems like a waste of my goddamn money cuz i could already do that on my 14b4

I want to use one to help myself out in songs but if it takes all of this work it makes me not even wanna use this bullshit (sorry for my cussing im just very frustrated rn)

I say mouthpieces because ive tried the bach 10E, bob reeves 56mm i think, and finally this one the schilke 14a4a.

Am i supposed to do everything in the book sequentially?

Am i supposed to practice this flexibility at the end of practice? I am so lost as to what im supposed to practic

My goal is to get a solid lip trill and to get my range up to a double G, but the problem is I can already play a G though. I just want to make it effortless yk, but i can really only effortless play up to a Eb yk. So do i start at D, E?

Its so confusing

Got a schilke 14a4a today and i tested it and it was good and all (Everything being 10x louder with 10x less work) but its weird sometimes. Ill play for example an F or G the same way i play it on my 11b4 and it just wont come out. Mind you i can scream fs and Gs on a 3c, 11b4, 1.5c

I come from using toilet bowl mouthpieces like the ones said above, how do i transition to using lead pieces? It just feels abnormal to me yk

It forces you to play how it wants you to play on it yk, its weird. But i like it i just wanna know how to make it scream all the time like i can on my 11b4

Dont come at me with , "If you cant do it on a reg mouthpiece you cant do it on here" because i can make a 3c scream like ive said already. I just want to know how to use it. (Im not coming with the mindset of it giving me higher notes, i simply look at this as a tool to help save my chops and make my job easier)

I am trying to learn how to shake, but to do that you have to know how to lip trill

And lip trils are just fast slurs, but I cant get it right

I tried to practie doing the arban partial flexibility (C to g in the staff quarter note than eight, than eight trips, than sixtenths then triplet sixteens)

But i got sat down really fast and i can only play it all the way through at 30 bpm. Its so hard locking in the partials despie the notes im trying being really easy

Most importantly, how do i practice the higher ones like g to high b flat? I can litterally scream a high G but i cant do a simple g to b flat...

I just need exerscises helping learn how to lip trill high (ik you have to start low but i wanna know the progression)

And if i can do lip trills for high B flat to lets say high C, will that help my High E -> G become easier?

I am a junior (soon to be senior) in highschool, I definitely want to do band in college because ive been told by many people that i have a natural talent for this instrument (teachers, college students etc.)

but I'm not sure if I would want to take the risk and make a CAREER out of this though

When i think of professional playing, I think of gigs: Weddings, Venues, Etc. But on the other hand I think of real deal like jazz band stuff like louis downsdell and wayne bergeron

I also know that professional music is INSANELY competitive, but I don't want to waste my skills if you know what i mean too. I want to be like the cream of the crop like mitchel cooper (Who has commented on my vids before no flex lol)

But yeah, do I take the risk and go all in on trumpet majors / music majors? I want a major in software engineering currently, but all i need to know is where to find connections and how to become GLOBALLY good like Adam Rapa, Maynard, Cat Anderson, etc.

I want to become like really popular and make my own mouthpieces and stuff too, but I don't even know how I would get to that point even If i did practice until my Lips have Abs...

Edit: Forgot to mention but some dude today told me I should try to go for DCI, specifically the carolina crowns. I like DCI but I also heard its CRAZY expensive too, Would this put me on the radar more for being globally renowned? Call this ego or whatever but side note if i do join a DCI I definitely want to be the screamer / one of them dude, I could def be one but it seems kinda hard doing that for 12 hours straight