Uploaded October 2025 | Updated September 2026, 7 minutes ago
We hope you find this video from LOTUS Founder & CEO Adam Rapa helpful!
From Adam-
The more tissue we allow to vibrate, the bigger our sound will be, generally speaking.
Those of us with thinner lips need to make an effort to flex & grow our lips forward to get a fatter, more resonant tone quality.
It’s especially important to fatten-up our top lip to improve our sound in the upper register.
Rolling BOTH lips inward might help you hit some high notes, but it definitely won’t help you produce your best possible tone.
Instead, try just rolling in your bottom lip, while continuing to push the top lip forward. It may only give you a few extra millimeters of exposed tissue, but every bit counts!
And our bottom lip can be used to send the air in any direction inside the cup — without needing to complicate matters by resorting to pivoting our head or the horn. That’s a lot trickier to calibrate.
Just moving the bottom lip inward and outward is enough for to let us travel around the harmonic series.
This is best practiced by moving between just two harmonics at a time, a bazillion times in a row.
Pay close attention to yourself in the mirror, and make sure to eliminate any pivoting of the horn or your head. Find the tiny little wiggle of the bottom lip that makes clicking between the two notes even easier.
And of course, as always, I recommend letting your tongue do most of the work by changing its pronunciation for each note.
Enjoy!
We hope you find this video from LOTUS Founder & CEO Adam Rapa helpful!
From Adam-
The more tissue we allow to vibrate, the bigger our sound will be, generally speaking.
Those of us with thinner lips need to make an effort to flex & grow our lips forward to get a fatter, more resonant tone quality.
It’s especially important to fatten-up our top lip to improve our sound in the upper register.
Rolling BOTH lips inward might help you hit some high notes, but it definitely won’t help you produce your best possible tone.
Instead, try just rolling in your bottom lip, while continuing to push the top lip forward. It may only give you a few extra millimeters of exposed tissue, but every bit counts!
And our bottom lip can be used to send the air in any direction inside the cup — without needing to complicate matters by resorting to pivoting our head or the horn. That’s a lot trickier to calibrate.
Just moving the bottom lip inward and outward is enough for to let us travel around the harmonic series.
This is best practiced by moving between just two harmonics at a time, a bazillion times in a row.
Pay close attention to yourself in the mirror, and make sure to eliminate any pivoting of the horn or your head. Find the tiny little wiggle of the bottom lip that makes clicking between the two notes even easier.
And of course, as always, I recommend letting your tongue do most of the work by changing its pronunciation for each note.
Enjoy!
