| Warm Down ?
There are probably as many opinions on this as there are trumpet players. Here's mine, where my playing is concerned, for what it's worth.
Accually this can get a little involved but I'll try to post the "in a nut-shell"version.
(1) If it's been a particuarly brutal day / night / gig, I like to warm down with some very easy, slow, soft, Schlossberg-ish lips slurs until get a nice 'focus' back. Then I do Carmine Caruso type chromatic pedals, softly, as low as I can go, then play a chromatic scale from low f# to a high 'E' or 'G' at a mf volume. An analogy would be a serious runner ... he probably wouldn't do a hard 10-15 mile run and then just sit down and call it quits. He'll 'walk it off' get the heart rate back to normal, keep the blood flowing, allowing the lactic acid build up deplete.
(2) On a day off, where I'm practicing all day, a nice liesurely, warm up / practice session(s) / warm down all sort of meld into one another so it's not really a "Warm Up"-"Practice"-"Warm Down" regimen.
(3) On the Maynard band ... a whole new different ball of wax for me. As trumpet player and valet, as soon as the show is over I'm busy with Maynard so I don't get to warm down. So ... most of the time a very careful warm up the next day is important for me.
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The "Warm Up" is a whole nother thing, and another thread, and different for everyone.
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Hope this helped.
Michael Manthey
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