Free Trumpet Lessons & Video Library
Explore free trumpet lessons with Greg Spence, founder of Mystery to Mastery and WindWorks Trumpet Academy. Discover practical explanations and demonstrations covering sound, range, endurance, efficient playing and the learning process. Choose a lesson and discover a different way to approach your playing.
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PRACTICE & LEARNING · 5 MINUTES
Why Your Trumpet Practice Is Outdated
Explore playing efficiency, familiar habits and a different approach to learning with Greg Spence, alongside footage from Eastman ITG 2026.
This archive video combines playing demonstrations with Greg Spence’s Body’s Concert Hall analogy. The transcript captures the spoken explanation; watch the video to hear the musical examples.
Greg Spence introduces a simple breath and observation exercise for exploring an open playing sensation. This short archive video is part of his 60 Second Virtuoso series.
Greg Spence demonstrates the contrast between clamping the lips down and drawing the aperture corners inward. This short lesson focuses on recognising the feeling of the movement.
Greg Spence contrasts actively squeezing the air out with allowing a passive release. This short archive lesson uses a balloon, humming and lip movement to explore the feeling of overblowing.
Greg Spence demonstrates four linked steps: breath and humming, opening, aperture corners and airflow. This short archive lesson focuses on the sensation of an open, efficient setup.
In this short archive demonstration, Greg Spence uses a visualiser, mouthpiece, leadpipe and straw to explore vibration. Watch the physical demonstrations alongside the transcript, which cannot capture the musical sounds.
Greg Spence takes the conversation onto the golf course with Cassie Porter and Dan Morrison. This archive interview explores professional mindset and the learning ideas Greg connects with music and performance.
Greg Spence and Mark Bain conclude their conversation about practice and performance. Part 3 continues the discussion of pressure, familiar playing sensations and learning through experience.
In Part 2, Greg Spence and Mark Bain continue their conversation about preparation and performance. They discuss certainty, the playing process and Greg’s experience of performing under pressure.
Greg Spence and Mark Bain discuss the psychology and process of practice and performance. This first conversation explores learning, mistakes and preparing a clear idea of what you want to achieve.
Greg Spence discusses three practice ideas: trust the process, treat errors as information and take responsibility for your learning. The lesson includes a no notes demonstration and attention to the feeling of playing.
This WindWorks session explores articulation and the coordination of the aperture corners. Greg Spence discusses different attacks and the importance of checking how a drill is being performed.
