Exercises for Trumpets

Video Transcript

"Hi! This is Warren Vache of warrenvache.com. Trumpet player here in New York City and author of the DVD, I Love the Trumpet. Let's show you a couple of very quick warm up exercises for the trumpet. Every day it's going to be difficult to get your lip to vibrate loosely and freely and control it, and it takes quite a deal of preparation to warm up for a trumpet. I generally start on a low C below the treble clef and play long tones. I do this until my muscles loosen up. Sometimes you have through a whole night's playing, you wake up in the morning and your lip is actually stiff just like the muscle that you've worked at the gym. So, the whole idea of a warm-up is like just like a warm-up at the gym to loosen that muscle so that you can get to work with it again without pain. Also, when you're doing those warm-ups, be very careful to listen for variations in the sound. You don't want to hear , it's much very important that you make a steady and well-produce sound. Now, you can do those long tones, do them down dramatically to an F sharp and then you can start to do a little slurry. You can go and what helps is to vibrate that same thing in your mouth piece and then go back and play it again on the trumpet. The idea of a warm-up is to loosen your lip."