Triple C video? Trent Austin Mini-Lesson #54: My Take on the Caruso Method

Triple C video? well not really....
Trent Austin Mini-Lesson #54: My take on the Caruso method
Triple C on a MV3C? I know it's silly but I truly believe my endurance and range is from my early studies with the Findley Brothers (Bob and Chuck) who very generously helped guide me through the studies.
Here is my special take on this method and how it's helped me!
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PS: Sorry for the typo on the vid. Obviously being a trumpeter I cannot add. this is indeed mini-lesson #54 in our series! :)

[@austincustom]

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[@Kira-pz8bm]

Should i play it at the end of the day?

[@JasonCBrewer]

I am watching this for the third time. I am going to try add this to my routine.

[@davidboa2768]

Agreed. My old trumpet teacher used to say “push it off your chops.” It REALLY focuses the chops.

[@slidegrease]

wonderful lesson.....for young and old...... all levels should benefit........ you're helping so many many players, including myself! thank you.

[@artisfine]

Thank you so much for the demonstration of your way ! A lot to learn for me 😀🤗

[@57dogsbody]

Great lesson, very useful.

[@njad3]

Man I love the Caruso method as well. Great video Trent!

[@willcaviness]

Just watched this great vid. I have gone back and forth with Caruso over the years, but I will revisit again. I think with the way I used to set up my chops, the exercises hurt more than helped. I know the bends are awesome for focusing aperture. Great video

[@nrcg2317]

Fascinating, Trent. You are completely correct! It wasn't until I started doing the Caruso exercises that I began to truly improve the quality of my tone, range, and endurance. It was a friend (who's a professional trumpeter) that turned me on to the Caruso book a few years ago. He compared it to doing calisthenics for the embouchure. The improvement was remarkable, even though I am not a professional in any sense of the word. Thanks for posting...Very gracious of you to share with us. I will follow up with your recommendation to bend notes in the upper range of the intervals in seconds exercise. I will let you know how it goes. Thanks again!

[@k.scotsparks9247]

'excellent. THANKS, man!

[@chasesanborn]

Nice lesson! Julie Landsman's series provides an in-depth look at Caruso. Just listening to the sound coming out of her horn is a lesson in itself.

[@robertthomas7343]

Cali for Trumpet ! I'm going on a quest ! Thank You for what you do for all of us !

[@9elat0]

Man I love that Horn your playing on!!

[@IsidorSynthwave]

You'r and Harrelson's channel are the only one im subbed to. I feel like you really care about people and you both give amazing tips. It hellped me with my high register, I'm not exactly there yet but im finally going in the right direction and first for the time in my life I'm doing Caruso the right way! Thank you :)

[@alemusick]

Great info!!!

[@TheMrAshley2010]

Thanks for the lesson Trent. I've been struggling with my range and endurance lately and this info suggests a path I wasn't aware of.

[@austincustom]

I will be doing a follow-up live YT session most likely Tuesday or Wednesday to talk more deeply about the method I used to help my range and endurance!

[@kevinhupe8384]

Trent Austin was there a video of your live follow up to this? I’m interested in your take on this as I’ve started this method later (wiser hopefully) in life 🙂

[@anthonycarbonaro7890]

Very excellent!! Thank You 🙏

[@AGUSTINMARTINEZ-lz2vc]

You are spectacular player..amazing..thank you

[@austincustom]

Thank you for checking out the videos!

[@AGUSTINMARTINEZ-lz2vc]

You are a genious..real great trumpeter

[@piotrzbrog2514]

Hi.Thank you for your lessons.Regards from Poland🤓

[@austincustom]

Thank you so much! I hope all is well your way!

[@Ives831]

Thanks for this Trent. Do you use the negative pressure variation throughout the entire exercise or just when you get above the staff (similar to the bends). I'm going to try both of these variations out on alternating days. Also, I'd love to see a Mini-Lesson on multiple tonguing. I just went back to check the old ones to see if I had missed it. If I did, I apologize for the redundant ask :-) Hope all is well!

[@paulbin]

Markus was one of my teachers. Good guy. 👍 lots of yoga😀

[@carloscenteno59]

What is Markus’s info and last name?

[@TPT6148]

Hi Trent, love your videos! I still have a tattered copy of Roger Spaulding's Double High C In 37 Weeks which I occasionally attempt with no success. I guess it will work but only if your chops are set up correctly in the first place, which mind clearly aren't! Have you ever used it?

[@chrislinscott8768]

wow, the Maine jazz camp! I'm pretty sure I played next to you one year there and if I'm not mistaken, Scott Englebright played lead in the A band?? Picking up the horn again after many years away and your videos are super helpful. Cheers!

[@austincustom]

Yeah that was maybe 91?

[@chrislinscott8768]

@@austincustom Maybe even earlier... wish I had realized what a gift that place was when I was there.

[@austincustom]

Maybe 89 then?

[@JasonCBrewer]

How do you recommend starting Caruso for people who have have never really done it? Do you recommend starting at lesson one and going to the next lesson after you have mastered the first?

[@nickwright9064]

Thanks

[@austincustom]

Thank you!

[@AgileMarketer]

Great video and lesson!! Should be Mini-Lesson #1 !! But, does it work for a 50 yr old??

[@gtj1964]

Definitely. Just plain muscle training plus embouchure focus. There are people in their 70's doing body building...

[@lmaraya]

How about instead of doing diatonic seconds doing chromatic seconds? I think that especially for beginners, it takes longer for getting higher, maybe preventing the player from forcing?? I would love to hear your opinions ob that variation I do.

[@brentbechtel7313]

Ah! I went to Jazz Camp in high school at WVU a few times. Once, during an embouchure change. It was a disaster. My teacher wanted me to prop my trumpet up with pillows and approach the horn and play with no pressure. I went from being one of the better trumpet players to sounding terrible for the next year. Anyway. Embouchure disasters happen. I can play without much pressure at all, right? But that didn't get me very far yet. YET. I can focus the airstream and squeak without right hand pressure. I guess my high notes sound squealy like that -- currently working on getting them to open up.

[@talbotmeriwether7565]

Any advice for comeback player that seems to have already caused some damage with the "lion that hasn't eaten" method? I got about a 9 monthing into practicing everyday (as well as gigging which I think was the real problem), and started to have problems I'd never had before--the 'teardrop' part of lip where the aperture forms more or less got so puffy, numb, and scarred that it totally changed how I could produce tones. I tried to make little shifts to let it heal and play with better technique--brought the jaw out to put more weight on lower lip, scooted over to the side (which I already played off center, but now even more), just reduce pressure in general. But now about a year after started I'm just stuck, and feel like I can't really play. The aperture just "shuts" on me all the time because that part of the lip is so numb and swollen. I'll fall off of a middle G sometimes. And it's not even to the next partial, sometimes it's just and ugly "pedal", with that part of the lip sort of sucking into the throat of mp. Tried taking a week off, coming back slow, playing whisper tones. Practice starts off better now, but always ends the same. When I'm chopped out it's really dead, and it's right there at the aperture. Not gigging anymore obvs :/

[@boboala1]

Dude - I thought I was the only one with this syndrome! I guess I (we?) just weren't natural-born trumpet players(!) A frat brother of mine in college marching band was NOT a music major, didn't practice much, and could sit on G above high C really fatty. I've NEVER hit one in 40+ years of playing trumpet & I majored on trumpet in college! I had technical versatility and always sat high up or principal in the section...played big band, muny band & local funk/jazz gigs for decades...until 8 years ago I got the call for a good 12-piece 'event' funk band, but 3-hour gigs of TOP, EW&F, Michael Jackson, Stevie Wonder, etc. just wiped me out! Top/thin lip numb from too much pressure & NO endurance to play long repetitive vamps/intros...FML! I have a crossbite...I blame it. I shoulda played sax!

[@JeanWJoseph]

That horn is beautifuuuuuuuuuuuul. What kind of horn is that? :o

[@lesliecolonello9320]

When I was in college listening to trumpet players in the practice rooms working on triple C's, I realized then that such a measure of range was impractical and a waste of energy. That's why they sell wall to wall carpet now and I'm a 50 year professional. Wise up kids. Play between the C's and have a chance of getting a freaking gig.

[@austincustom]

Really you shouldn't only work on triple c? Shocker. Thanks for the input.

[@lesliecolonello9320]

@@austincustom It took me three weeks to play the first three pages of Caruso correctly. If you don't have confidence it will expose your shortcomings and make you fail real fast. Brutal but necessary for every trumpet player.

[@austincustom]

@@lesliecolonello9320 Caruso is the real deal for sure!!!

[@MrRezillo]

I agree completely. I'm a comeback player of advanced years, just trying to work on my own sound - and swing, above all. So many young players worship at the shrine of Maynard; what a shame. Yes, Maynard was amazing in some aspects (i.e., range). He was a very good improvisor; just not in the same league of inventiveness as Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, etc. I also love Chet Baker: such a lyrical player without colossal chops.

[@57dogsbody]

Hey Trent, when you're taking the rest between the excercises, do you still keep the horn on your chops?

[@stephenvannevel9216]

Nope

[@lewiscollins3984]

Hey Trent I’m really trying to increase my range but I’m only gaining about a semitones every 6 months, my problem is I can’t keep my lips on the MP all the time like Caruso says and breathe through the nose, My sinus is really bad and I can’t breath well enough to breath through my nose so I have to take my lips off to breathe properly well the corners of my lips come off. I’m 31 and can’t play higher than E or F above high C, can you help me? Any tips?

[@HAThomas26]

How many time per week or per day do you do this? Do you do this every time you practice? At the beginning or end of your practice sessions?

[@austincustom]

I usually do the seconds once a day basically the last thing of my day (followed by some double pedal notes to "cool down").

[@nightflyer3175]

I tell students. There are as many ways of playing Trumpet as there are Trumpet players. Every one of us had to find our way. Yes, there are certain fundamentals. However, and this is a big "but", what works for one does NOT necessarily work for another!!! How many times have you heard professional players say they had to "change " their setup? They had to figure it out for themselves! EVERYBODY DOES!!! So, to all you who seek "the secret" to playing Trumpet, let me sum it up like one if my mentors did, (stop trying to imitate all the "gurus", my lead in, and) "practice...Practice...PRACTICE"!!!

[@MrRezillo]

I'm a true believer in the Caruso method; works for me - IF I keep on it (I'm not always good about it). That said, I've always found "Calesthenics For Brass" to be confusing, as to how to set up a practice schedule. I read somewhere that Caruso himself wasn't happy with the final product. Anyway, thanks, Trent. I just discovered your instructional videos. I bought my "Doubler's Flugel" from you in 2019 and have been happy with it (even though I must be the only trumpeter in the world who's not crazy about the flugel). Looking forward to catching up on your other vids.

[@mattcohen4652]

@ 1:50 "I was the weakest trumpet player on camp"... I'd love to know who the other players were on the camp! thinking Arturo, Freddy, Dizzy etc...

[@mattcohen4652]

yes, I get the point Trent is making.

[@patrickcolwell4202]

You missed it you got it wrong you didn't study with carmine and Bob Finley won't let you down WRONG WRONG WRONG that's why pepoly hav misconception oy carmine