Your first goal is to meet your chops where they are. There should be no pain when you warm up because you’re going to take things slow and easy. Do them.įirst thing – pain is the body’s way of saying STOP.

Most young players just don’t do those things. You have to listen to yourself and think about how things feel. With all of these words I’ve already lost most of the kids who ended up on this post. What really matters are things like how you feel, how you sound and how you progress as a player. I’m going to tell you a lot of stuff, but that’s less important. How high, low, loud, soft, long etc will be up to you. You are going to be in control of how this process goes. As a secondary goal, we’re going to do some things that will have spin-off benefits in other aspects of your playing … like a basketball team warming up by sinking a bunch of easy baskets or hockey players casually skating around shooting pucks at an empty net. That’s our main goal here, but with your Trumpet playing.

If you were getting ready to play a sport, you’d give your body some sort of warm-up so that you’d be more likely to play your best and less likely to hurt yourself. As with any other physical activity there are gains to be made by getting yourself ready to play. Just follow the streamlined lead sheets in the book and play along with the professionally recorded backing tracks on the CD.This site is about helping you become a better Trumpet player, and some kind of daily warm-up routine is key to making that happen. The Hal Leonard Easy Jazz Play-Along Series includes songs with accessible chord changes and features recordings with novice-friendly tempos.

Improvising is easier than ever with this new series for beginning jazz musicians.

Blues in b flat warm up