Great video. One thing, trumpeters talk about range, how to develop it, various techniques, blah blah blah. However, far less discussed is ENDURANCE in the upper register. Without endurance, popping out an occasional high note is generally worthless. But being able to sustain a loud high note is actually quite useful. So how does one develop endurance? For me, long tones in the upper register has been hugely helpful. I recently started Claude Gordon's book on systematic daily practice and it involves lots of BORING long tones. But if you faithfully do them, your range and endurance will increase. Now, this method may not work for all trumpeters, so it is best to try and see if it works for you. If not, then hopefully some other approach will work.
Your videos are helping me a ton. High notes are easier than ever before, at least in the practice room. I am looking at high notes and playing them from a different perspective and approach now thanks to your advice. Keep it up and I look forward to more of your videos. They are the best I have seen so far on RUclips!
Could you make a video or so about developing accuracy? I crack notes quite a bit, so I'd like some tips on how to work on Getting more centered and not crack so many notes either in practice or rehearsal
Will start with the left had approach and make it part of daily practice....I'm one who's been stuck at the same range limit for many years, with extremely rare exceptions but only in practice. Great insights as always Tito.
Since I was 6 years old I've been developing my fingering precision and ear training, I play violin, electric and acoustic guitar, piano and bass, but I've never played any wind instrument and always wanted to learn the trumped because I love trumpet solos in jazz tunes. So, I bought me a trumpet a month ago and started to learn. One of the things I struggle with is because this instrument doesn't require to much of fingering precision (which is the thing I most developed in my life as a musician). But it requires more of mouth environment, embochure and breath control, things that I've never needed until now lol. Although it might have sounded like if I was complaining about that, what I really meant was that I have new challeneges with the trumpet, and I'm actually enjoying playing it, and your videos have helped me a lot so far! I could reach the C one octave higher than the lower one, reached C#, D, and I'm now struggling to reach D# and E. Thanks a lot for your videos, they are great! I really enjoy them a lot!
I was surprised to learn fairly recently (last couple of years) that Bill Chase was not a “natural” high note player. I read an article where he was quoted as saying he had to put in a lot of practice to gain his mastery of the upper register. That blew me away (no pun intended). Most of the good information I’ve learned on range is that you need to develop the coordination to play high notes, that it’s a journey of discovery, and once you gain (for lack of a better word) the “knack,” you learn that playing high notes is not that difficult. As so many trumpet players who can do it have said, it takes a lot less air than you think, and the notes are a lot closer together than you think. Most players who haven’t discovered their high range use way too much tension in their embouchure, and they literally pinch off the sound. I think the advice in this video is so valuable that I’m going to post it to the r/trumpet subreddit, where questions concerning range are fairly common.
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Dear Tito, happy new year! Those limiting beliefs are real and sooo powerful! I also used to think, high register for me was physically impossible and the intense mental stress I experienced, as young trumpet student at conservatory, made me throw in the towell for a career as trumpetplayer. Although being happily saved by my other talent singing, the mental and physical blockade when playing & practising, got so serious that I sold my trumpet and didn't play a tone for over 35 years(!!!). Your videos are just so valuable, that I hope many young players find your chanell on YT. Please keep on posting, you're a wonderfull person, Tito! / And trumpet player, of course! Best from Berlin!
2 года назад
ps: and yes, I'm practising again and calmy searching for and working on my register breakthrough
Tito, I always love your videos, and you’re a great player and a great dude too! I’ve been playing professionally 50 years so let me add my two cents onto more things about playing high. By the way, I’m a lead player. Some say, I’m a downstream player/I’m an upstream player therefore I can’t play high, others say I don’t have the right mouthpiece, others, I don’t have the right horn, Playing high notes it’s just an ego thing, and I don’t play that game, I’m a classical player and I don’t need to play that high, my chops aren’t oriented towards high note playing, And lastly, if I practice all those High note exercises I’ll ruin my chops/tone. Thank you for another excellent video! Plan brother!
how long to be able to comfortably play the high C in classical repertoire?. current range is about an A maybe B above the staff. wanna delve into Bach and Telemann.
Great advice! I’ve been a brass player on and off for 50 years and made it my project when I retired to finally develop a successful embouchure, including high notes. 3 years in I’m making great progress. My main learning is that you need to experiment to discover what works for you - there are general principles which apply to everyone as Tito says, but as far as the details go, everyone is different.
I’ve played with the great young player Louis Dowdeswell who is undoubtedly one of the best high range players on the planet and TBH he said exactly the same thing - experiment with what works and what doesn’t and explore that. It’s not the same for everyone. There are good principles with breathing, pressure etc but it really is an individual thing.
Louis Dowdeswell is an alien on the trumpet! Yes, each of us must go on our own journey. I try to share things that have helped me with my transformation in my upper register, and it works for most of my students, but not every single one. So for those, we keep trying new things. Sometimes it’s one little saying or phrase someone says that might make all of the difference in your playing, so it’s important to be open minded and not reject something simply because it sounds strikingly different from what we’re familiar with.
I've been playing trumpet for many years. I play lead but now sometimes my lip gives out and swells up. Am I not supporting enough. I'm 63 years old now and don't know that age has anything to do with it....but??
Could be a number of factors, but I don't believe age has to be one of them. One thing age does reveal is inefficiencies in our playing, meaning often times we can't continue to play the same way we did in our 20's and 30's because our bodies no longer recover the same way. Which is why it is essential to keep searching for a more efficient approach to playing that does not rely on blasting and a ton of mouthpiece pressure. Check out my video Upper Register Breakthrough where I discuss this in more detail.
This is a great video, Tito! I appreciate the pacing in how you present and describe the wealth of information that you have. Love the part when you shared what Wayne said about "discovering your range". That connected with me, and I never heard it put into words like that. Also, did you used to teach in UT- Brownsville or TAMIU? I've heard your name in my circle of musician friends down here, and I'm wondering if your THAT Tito Carrillo.
I never taught down there, but I’m originally from Austin and went to UT Austin in the early 90’s. Been up in Chicago since 95 and teaching at the U of Illinois since 2006.
@@jazzmindwithtitocarrillo605 Ahh okay! Cool deal. We are both UT alumni. Keep up the great work! I don't know if you've talked about this yet, but I'd like to hear your thoughts on how you would describe differences in volume when playing in the upper register. (Or in general) Is it different in the upper register, because of the different mouth environment?
Tito, what are your thoughts on trumpet players who play with the red of the lips and high notes? I play with the red of my top lip and was just wondering
I speak about this issue in my video called The Three F’s For A Fabulous Embouchure, and I mention that playing on the red of the lips is not ideal for long term success. Vibration of the lips is key throughout all registers in order to produce a robust tone, and by pulling your top lip out of the cup, though it makes your aperture smaller, it impedes the vibration of your top lip and lead to lots of negative effects down the road. My advice to you is to set your top lip first inside the mouthpiece before your bottom lip, and then use these videos to rely more on your tongue and jaw movement to make your aperture smaller while keeping more lip tissue in the mouthpiece cup. This may feel weird in the beginning, but you’ll grow accustomed to the new feeling, and set yourself up for sounding good long term, not to mention avoiding injury. Hope this helps!
Why can some people run faster or jump higher, or throw a ball farther? My goal with these teachings is to help anybody who loves to play and wants to get better reach their potential on their instruments as artists. But really, I’m mostly about the journey of being a developing artist, and I want to inspire others to go on the journey with me. So the question I’m really interested in is this: what does the next level on the horn look like for you, da11king?
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Makes absolute sense. Your words and principles speak to me. Well done, thank you!
Great video. One thing, trumpeters talk about range, how to develop it, various techniques, blah blah blah. However, far less discussed is ENDURANCE in the upper register. Without endurance, popping out an occasional high note is generally worthless. But being able to sustain a loud high note is actually quite useful. So how does one develop endurance? For me, long tones in the upper register has been hugely helpful. I recently started Claude Gordon's book on systematic daily practice and it involves lots of BORING long tones. But if you faithfully do them, your range and endurance will increase. Now, this method may not work for all trumpeters, so it is best to try and see if it works for you. If not, then hopefully some other approach will work.
Your videos are helping me a ton. High notes are easier than ever before, at least in the practice room. I am looking at high notes and playing them from a different perspective and approach now thanks to your advice. Keep it up and I look forward to more of your videos. They are the best I have seen so far on RUclips!
Could you make a video or so about developing accuracy? I crack notes quite a bit, so I'd like some tips on how to work on Getting more centered and not crack so many notes either in practice or rehearsal
Will start with the left had approach and make it part of daily practice....I'm one who's been stuck at the same range limit for many years, with extremely rare exceptions but only in practice. Great insights as always Tito.
Thanks so much for de-mystifying the upper register and being able to explain in a logical way. I have some work to do!
Since I was 6 years old I've been developing my fingering precision and ear training, I play violin, electric and acoustic guitar, piano and bass, but I've never played any wind instrument and always wanted to learn the trumped because I love trumpet solos in jazz tunes. So, I bought me a trumpet a month ago and started to learn. One of the things I struggle with is because this instrument doesn't require to much of fingering precision (which is the thing I most developed in my life as a musician). But it requires more of mouth environment, embochure and breath control, things that I've never needed until now lol.
Although it might have sounded like if I was complaining about that, what I really meant was that I have new challeneges with the trumpet, and I'm actually enjoying playing it, and your videos have helped me a lot so far! I could reach the C one octave higher than the lower one, reached C#, D, and I'm now struggling to reach D# and E.
Thanks a lot for your videos, they are great! I really enjoy them a lot!
Does anyone have about 3 core practice routines that they have used to develop range and endurance.
I was surprised to learn fairly recently (last couple of years) that Bill Chase was not a “natural” high note player. I read an article where he was quoted as saying he had to put in a lot of practice to gain his mastery of the upper register. That blew me away (no pun intended). Most of the good information I’ve learned on range is that you need to develop the coordination to play high notes, that it’s a journey of discovery, and once you gain (for lack of a better word) the “knack,” you learn that playing high notes is not that difficult. As so many trumpet players who can do it have said, it takes a lot less air than you think, and the notes are a lot closer together than you think. Most players who haven’t discovered their high range use way too much tension in their embouchure, and they literally pinch off the sound. I think the advice in this video is so valuable that I’m going to post it to the r/trumpet subreddit, where questions concerning range are fairly common.
Dear Tito, happy new year! Those limiting beliefs are real and sooo powerful! I also used to think, high register for me was physically impossible and the intense mental stress I experienced, as young trumpet student at conservatory, made me throw in the towell for a career as trumpetplayer. Although being happily saved by my other talent singing, the mental and physical blockade when playing & practising, got so serious that I sold my trumpet and didn't play a tone for over 35 years(!!!). Your videos are just so valuable, that I hope many young players find your chanell on YT. Please keep on posting, you're a wonderfull person, Tito! / And trumpet player, of course! Best from Berlin!
ps: and yes, I'm practising again and calmy searching for and working on my register breakthrough
Saludos desde Puerto Rico. Always on point. Pa' lante.
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Tito, I always love your videos, and you’re a great player and a great dude too! I’ve been playing professionally 50 years so let me add my two cents onto more things about playing high. By the way, I’m a lead player. Some say, I’m a downstream player/I’m an upstream player therefore I can’t play high, others say I don’t have the right mouthpiece, others, I don’t have the right horn, Playing high notes it’s just an ego thing, and I don’t play that game, I’m a classical player and I don’t need to play that high, my chops aren’t oriented towards high note playing, And lastly, if I practice all those High note exercises I’ll ruin my chops/tone. Thank you for another excellent video! Plan brother!
Excellent observations, thanks for sharing Wayne!
how long to be able to comfortably play the high C in classical repertoire?. current range is about an A maybe B above the staff. wanna delve into Bach and Telemann.
Great advice! I’ve been a brass player on and off for 50 years and made it my project when I retired to finally develop a successful embouchure, including high notes. 3 years in I’m making great progress. My main learning is that you need to experiment to discover what works for you - there are general principles which apply to everyone as Tito says, but as far as the details go, everyone is different.
Agreed!
I’ve played with the great young player Louis Dowdeswell who is undoubtedly one of the best high range players on the planet and TBH he said exactly the same thing - experiment with what works and what doesn’t and explore that. It’s not the same for everyone. There are good principles with breathing, pressure etc but it really is an individual thing.
Louis Dowdeswell is an alien on the trumpet! Yes, each of us must go on our own journey. I try to share things that have helped me with my transformation in my upper register, and it works for most of my students, but not every single one. So for those, we keep trying new things. Sometimes it’s one little saying or phrase someone says that might make all of the difference in your playing, so it’s important to be open minded and not reject something simply because it sounds strikingly different from what we’re familiar with.
I just tell myself that I’ll be able to play high again. Bc everyone sucked before they got good at trumpet
I've been playing trumpet for many years. I play lead but now sometimes my lip gives out and swells up. Am I not supporting enough. I'm 63 years old now and don't know that age has anything to do with it....but??
Could be a number of factors, but I don't believe age has to be one of them. One thing age does reveal is inefficiencies in our playing, meaning often times we can't continue to play the same way we did in our 20's and 30's because our bodies no longer recover the same way. Which is why it is essential to keep searching for a more efficient approach to playing that does not rely on blasting and a ton of mouthpiece pressure. Check out my video Upper Register Breakthrough where I discuss this in more detail.
@@jazzmindwithtitocarrillo605 thx Tito
This is a great video, Tito! I appreciate the pacing in how you present and describe the wealth of information that you have. Love the part when you shared what Wayne said about "discovering your range". That connected with me, and I never heard it put into words like that. Also, did you used to teach in UT- Brownsville or TAMIU? I've heard your name in my circle of musician friends down here, and I'm wondering if your THAT Tito Carrillo.
I never taught down there, but I’m originally from Austin and went to UT Austin in the early 90’s. Been up in Chicago since 95 and teaching at the U of Illinois since 2006.
@@jazzmindwithtitocarrillo605 Ahh okay! Cool deal. We are both UT alumni. Keep up the great work! I don't know if you've talked about this yet, but I'd like to hear your thoughts on how you would describe differences in volume when playing in the upper register. (Or in general) Is it different in the upper register, because of the different mouth environment?
Yes, I talk about volume in the upper register on the video The Problem Holding Back Most Trumpet Players, check it out.
Tito, what are your thoughts on trumpet players who play with the red of the lips and high notes? I play with the red of my top lip and was just wondering
I speak about this issue in my video called The Three F’s For A Fabulous Embouchure, and I mention that playing on the red of the lips is not ideal for long term success. Vibration of the lips is key throughout all registers in order to produce a robust tone, and by pulling your top lip out of the cup, though it makes your aperture smaller, it impedes the vibration of your top lip and lead to lots of negative effects down the road. My advice to you is to set your top lip first inside the mouthpiece before your bottom lip, and then use these videos to rely more on your tongue and jaw movement to make your aperture smaller while keeping more lip tissue in the mouthpiece cup. This may feel weird in the beginning, but you’ll grow accustomed to the new feeling, and set yourself up for sounding good long term, not to mention avoiding injury. Hope this helps!
Why do some professionals play higher than others even though they all seem to have great fundamentals? Is it a gift thing?
Why can some people run faster or jump higher, or throw a ball farther? My goal with these teachings is to help anybody who loves to play and wants to get better reach their potential on their instruments as artists. But really, I’m mostly about the journey of being a developing artist, and I want to inspire others to go on the journey with me. So the question I’m really interested in is this: what does the next level on the horn look like for you, da11king?