Why is there air in your sound?
This is a really easy question to answer. No gray areas with this one.
Sound IS vibrations.
The sound from the trumpet IS caused by the vibrating of our lips.
Air in the sound IS caused from too big an aperture for the note/volume we are playing.
What happens is that some of the air gets through the hole without touching any lip tissue and doesn’t get put into vibration. So it sizzles right through the sound.
Air in the tone goes hand in hand with every bad thing that can happen. Not being able to play soft cleanly or at all, poor range, poor endurance, excessive mouthpiece pressure……. » Read more..