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Old 06-29-2006, 06:26 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: The Warm Up in General

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Originally Posted by TheCanadianScreamer
In my experience, I have always felt the warm up to be a load of crap. A bunch of method books i have read tells you to do a huge, drawn out warm up including buzzing, scales, lip slurs etc. I personlally feel that a thirty secon warm up including a two octave C to C scale and maybe a cromatic scale to be sufficiant. Am i an idiot or do you agree.
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Well, like anything else with playing the trumpet, this is largely subjective. I know that for me, I have a standard warm up that I do every day before practice or play. If I don't do the warmup, I have about 1/3 the stamina and playing as I do if I warm up.

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