Caruso Routine for Horn Guidelines 1. Always breathe through the nose. This may seem unnatural at first, but I have found it not to interfere with my “normal” way of breathing. 2. Keep your lips on the mouthpiece and keep the embouchure set and firm throughout the entire exercise. 3. Make sure that you feel the beat at all times (even subdividing). The exact placement of the note in time is the goal. 4. Constant airflow is essential. In fact, focus primarily on air and time. 5. Non-judgmental awareness of what you are doing. Don’t get too neurotic; just do the exercise. 1. Play with a full, sustained sound, and hold notes full value. Keep embouchure and mouthpiece set during rests.
2. This chromatic scale is used to connect the registers.
3. Keep mouthpiece and embouchure set during rests. Continue until no sound comes out. Then stop for 12 counts, and start again where you left off. Go as high as possible, but keep your normal embouchure. Do not continue after the basic embouchure has lost its position.