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Why Your Trumpet Practice Is Outdated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.
In this lesson excerpt, Greg Spence works with a player on the Milk Spout, aperture corners and the feeling of the airflow. The discussion shows how an individual adjustment can change the playing sensation.
Greg Spence asks what needs to change when practice keeps producing the same limitations. In this extended discussion, he examines the difference between reading instructions and experiencing an efficient process.
Greg Spence distinguishes information in a method book from the experience of learning a playing process. He discusses why knowledge needs practical integration and feedback.
Greg Spence introduces the 1% Rule: ask whether you can get more sound while doing a little less. He compares the instinct to force a trumpet sound with the way we respond to tension in the voice.
Feeling certain that an exercise is correct does not always mean the process is working as intended. Greg Spence discusses the illusion of competence and the importance of checking what you actually do.
Greg Spence shares how frustration led him to reconsider his approach to brass playing. This lesson explores the beliefs and familiar habits that can make trying something different difficult.
Why can a useful change feel so unfamiliar? Greg Spence discusses the conflict between wanting different results and returning to an established playing habit.
Greg Spence introduces the WindWorks Toolbox and the body instrument system. He discusses how concepts, techniques, errors and applications help players examine what they are doing.
Greg Spence discusses consistent practice and the importance of recognising what you are repeating. This lesson connects regular attention with the effort to identify and replace inefficient habits.
Greg Spence explains the Air Lock: pinching the lips together and trying to overcome that resistance with more force. This short lesson introduces a different way to think about lip vibration.
What can you learn by bringing the trumpet into position without producing a note? Greg Spence demonstrates no notes practice as a way to observe movement, breath release and unnecessary activation.
Greg Spence explores air velocity and the coordination of the aperture corners in changing register. This demonstration contrasts horizontal lip movement with squeezing down or forcing a faster buzz.
