| Interesting ....
As a Licensed Mental Health Therapist by day .... and something else by night, I would say that you have found your focus by starting that way. Psychologists talk about "flow" -- that place where you are so into what your are doing that nothing else matters. You focus so well that you are deep into your playing.
Sometimes when we warm up, we approach it ho hum. It just long tones and scales and slurs. Miss a few notes, no big deal, I am not warm yet!
But playing a brass instrument often means hitting notes after 30 bars of rest and being dead on -- without being able to work up to it. Trumpets are exposed -- they are rarely background brass. And then when tired, we are expected to hit notes that we sometimes barely can hit when warm and fresh. This takes giving it your all both mentally and physically.
I think your "pre-warmup" is honing those skills of pure concentration on the task at hand. It may not be for everyone, but I like the idea of it.
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