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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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I agree, and that was one of the things Barbara Butler instilled in me. From the first lesson I had with her she stressed there is no physical need for a warm up. Good fundamentals are everything. Especially when one has a consistent routine of playing and practicing I feel you're always sort of on. I don't worry about it. Same with warm down. I need to play, I play.
One of the CSO guys, one of the trombonists, don't remember who, said, "Warm up? We never cool down."
Michael McLaughlin
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