For those who favor or discourage free buzzing

[Steve Marcus]

Remarkable.

https://www.facebook.com/10000495958421 ... =3&theater

[PaulMaybery]

Buzzing is a wonderful exercise/tool. It has his benefits.
But there are several other issues to connect with the buzz, and so I do not believe it is an isololated majic bullet in an of itself.

For instance: The airstream from the embouchure (up stream or down stream) is a critical element of embouchure technique. It is more realistic to exercise that with the mouthpiece in the horn and actually having to negotiate crossing partials or awkward fingered slurs? I think it is.

Balancing the resitance from heavily fingered notes such as 2&4 to open so as not to allow the open tone to "bark."

Dealing with the 4th valve with its larger bore when going from a fingered note in the 1st 3 valves to a 4th valve combination. It always seems a bit strange and sometimes I prefer not to use the 4th valve but to just pull a slide to get a 3 valve note in tune.

So there you have a few examples of certain phenomena that need to be addressed that do not happen with just a MP.

I know some might use the analogy, that only those who can hear the grass grow would appreciated the issues, but they are real and are there.

Paul (who is always trying to learn yet one more thing about the sensitive side of performance) Maybery

[largobone]

I'm typically part of the "those who discourage free buzzing" group but wow! That guy's got chops. I'll be honest, at first I thought the video was doctored but watching through I know it wasn't.

I actually agree with Paul, it has it's uses, most prominent for me is taking a mouthpiece when a horn is not an option but there are others, I just don't find a lot of benefits myself.

[WangZhiXian]

Welp, that's an upstream embouchure!

[Doug Elliott]

That video is impressive but that kind of mouth-farting has no relationship to a brass embouchure and does not transfer any benefits. There is a way to free-buzz that is very beneficial to playing, but most players don't find it on their own.

[Rick F]

This woman plays a pretty mean trumpet, sans trumpet. She even can sound like a muted trumpet.

The trumpet woman

[MaryAnn]

Weelllll..... I can do that but don't sound as good as he does. And I say it has little to do with actual playing. However, for demonstrating that the lips *can* buzz a pitch, and that that actually has something to do with the pitch that comes out the instrument, it is valuable. I've seen a youtube of a trumpet *guy* who free buzzes (lips curled under, whaddaya think of that?) in the screech range of the trumpet, on pitch pretty well, and he sounds like a trumpet, too, just like the guy in the OP's video sounds not that far from a tuba.