I remember back in my senior year of high school, I did one of my oddest warm-ups at all-district. At my all-district auditions, they just crammed everyone into a giant auditorium and we all warmed up there. There were about 75 trombonists, and only me and one other guy were bass trombonists. So the two of us, being pretty good friends, did a warm-up that just involved playing things as loud and low as we could...(which I would never would do now, since loud pedal tones make a terrible warm-up). The two of us began competing with each other. He got down to somewhere in the double pedals, and I could only get to pedal C-B back then, so he kinda won that. But then, the next thing we knew, we had started a low note/volume contest between all the other trombonists, which then spread to other instruments. It was so funny, even though I'm pretty sure it detracted from everyone's audition. I did pretty well, but the thing I remember most from that whole experience was me and my friend starting an unofficial low note contest for pretty much everyone there. Good times, haha
I've really been enjoying these videos. I'm trying for All State Jazz this year, so hopefully these videos, along with others I've been watching, will help me get there.
Thanks Chris! Hope you stop back and check comments from time to time. I'm glad I found this video. Just getting back to trombone after 26 year hibernation!
I'm an intermediate-advanced horn player, (by your system) but I still find these lesson videos valuable. The mouthpiece breathing exercise really helps, thanks!
Nice Chris! All good stuff. Try some pitch bending exercises as well. Eventually playing Bb scale all in first position etc. Art Farmer had some of these pitch bending ideas in his book "The Art of Art Farmer" also check out "Flexus" by Laurie Frink and John McNeil. Thanks for sharing your great warmup ideas!
Im a 8th grade trombone player and my band director makes us do the breathing up to the 4 12 and we do the buzzing of the 2 octave b flat scale and also do the long tone one to 3 notes
@Brianna Limon: Indirectly they do. If you start straight away playing fast and high without having fully awaken your body, you will get tired and cramped quickly. So you can't really get to the peak of you playing.
I've heard many different theories on mouthpiece buzzing. I've heard that you shouldn't do too much "just" mouthpiece buzzing because it can be harmful to your playing (which I agree with). I just want your input, how long would you say you buzz? No more than 10 minutes a day??
+Jacob Carter These days I'll buzz a phrase mid practice if my tone quality isn't as pure as I want it to be. I don't see a huge benefit of doing it during warm ups more than a few minutes, but I certainly don't think it'll hurt anything if you do.
Hey! Fellow music student/trombonist here. Love your video lessons. Just wanted to (politely) point out that you reversed 4 and 5 at 3:10. I wouldn't have said anything, but I'm kind of a grammar nazi when it comes to music theory. Anyways, keep up the awesome work, and I look forward to hopefully some more lessons from you.
I need some advice. So, I have been playing the Trombone for 3 1/2 years. Honestly, I am not the best player. However, I would like to study Music Therapy. In order to do this I have to audition. Do you have any tips? Thanks I really appreciate your time! p.s. Nice trombone skills :)
My warmup process is a lot shorter and less intricate than yours. Mine mostly consists of low long tones, pedal tones on the mouthpiece, scales, and playing the harmonic series. Then again, my range is a pedal G (G1) to the upper Ab (Ab4), so I don't need as much time.
Hi Chris,I really love your videos. You were saying to make sure that you don't raise your shoulders when you breath. So you think it's okay to take in a breath from your lower lungs, and then when you try to continue to breath and fill your upper lungs, you raise your shoulders?
Do you support girl trombonist?... I feel like there aren't many guy trombonists that support girls. There is literally like 5 girls who play it in our entire school.
Hey Brianna! The short answer is of course I support girl trombonists!! Here's the long answer: When I was in high school competing in honor bands in the area, the only person my age that (consistently) beat me was a girl! There are some very very fine lady professional trombonists (see: Bones Apart trombone quartet.) You just have to focus on the music, and not that you're a girl, because you can do anything you put your mind to. That's because you're a human, not because you're a boy or a girl. Just keep at it and eventually the people around you will be looking up to you as their inspiration.
Christopher Bill Thanks! I was feeling like I wasn't gonna try out for first chair in a couple of days, cause guys keep telling me I couldn't do it! But I'm gonna try! This made me feel a lot better!
I tried out for one of the two leads for our concert.... annnnddddd I got in!!!!!! All the guys were glaring at me! And all the girls were cheering me on! Thanks for giving me hope!
Christopher Bill Haha! Ok thanks soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!! Now you get a lame joke! What are musicians made of? tromBONES! Hahahahaaahhhhaaah no
What they really do is allow you to get better, a practice or performance without warming up is never going to be full standard, but warming can be just as important...
I have a really important question. How can you play your high notes so easily because I am in the 6th grade band at my school and we have to play our scales in warm-ups. Recently,we learned our high E-flat scale and I just can't reach that high E or D even if I practice so hard.
Liliana Prentiss Hey, I'm also a 6th grade trombonist. Guessing that you're using the right technique for achieving high notes already, I would suggest warming up more. It used to be such a struggle to hit the high E-flat and also the high F, but when I started to warm up more it became much easier. Another thing you could to is to attempt to play notes higher than the E-flat , or really high notes in general. That will make it much simpler to play the E-flat. Also, time and experience play a *huge* factor into how high you can play. Your mouth muscles might need to mature a little bit before you can hit high notes. Hope this helped 😀
boy, I am NOT worthy....makes it look SOOOO easy...I struggle to get a good clean F above the clef consistently, after a 50 year hiatus ( I am nearly 70 ) I have returned to my horn with gusto but struggling with range. Practice daily and do plenty of long tones, lip slurs, and just playing and trying to expand the range...any advice would be welcome.
This guys is really good! I'm 14 I barely picked up the trombone 5 months ago. I had a great start. I seem to have a natural talent for it. This is the first and only instrument that I have ever played. One day I plan on being ale to do what this guy is doing just as easy
I remember back in my senior year of high school, I did one of my oddest warm-ups at all-district. At my all-district auditions, they just crammed everyone into a giant auditorium and we all warmed up there. There were about 75 trombonists, and only me and one other guy were bass trombonists. So the two of us, being pretty good friends, did a warm-up that just involved playing things as loud and low as we could...(which I would never would do now, since loud pedal tones make a terrible warm-up). The two of us began competing with each other. He got down to somewhere in the double pedals, and I could only get to pedal C-B back then, so he kinda won that. But then, the next thing we knew, we had started a low note/volume contest between all the other trombonists, which then spread to other instruments. It was so funny, even though I'm pretty sure it detracted from everyone's audition. I did pretty well, but the thing I remember most from that whole experience was me and my friend starting an unofficial low note contest for pretty much everyone there. Good times, haha
I've really been enjoying these videos. I'm trying for All State Jazz this year, so hopefully these videos, along with others I've been watching, will help me get there.
I am a Professional Trombonist and I have benefitted from this. Thank you Carole in Toronto
Thanks Chris! Hope you stop back and check comments from time to time. I'm glad I found this video. Just getting back to trombone after 26 year hibernation!
I'm an intermediate-advanced horn player, (by your system) but I still find these lesson videos valuable. The mouthpiece breathing exercise really helps, thanks!
CHIS HAS A beatiful VOICE
Nice Chris! All good stuff. Try some pitch bending exercises as well. Eventually playing Bb scale all in first position etc. Art Farmer had some of these pitch bending ideas in his book "The Art of Art Farmer" also check out "Flexus" by Laurie Frink and John McNeil. Thanks for sharing your great warmup ideas!
that interval training is working really well for me!!! thank you for uploading this, as well as the breathing
Im a 8th grade trombone player and my band director makes us do the breathing up to the 4 12 and we do the buzzing of the 2 octave b flat scale and also do the long tone one to 3 notes
You must be in college by now, correct? You’re welcome for bringing you back from the past. :)
Wow he played a high F so easily. So jelly...
Brendan Oliverio high f is easy pz
Comics for some ppl
@@NonComics jealous
@@Evanw10282 sorry :c
@@NonComics no actually I'm sorry I came off to harshly
@Brianna Limon: Indirectly they do. If you start straight away playing fast and high without having fully awaken your body, you will get tired and cramped quickly. So you can't really get to the peak of you playing.
I personally do the technique you start at 5:30, although I think a beginner probably cannot do the full extent of what you were demonstrating.
Thank you so much for this! I really appreciate it!
I've heard many different theories on mouthpiece buzzing. I've heard that you shouldn't do too much "just" mouthpiece buzzing because it can be harmful to your playing (which I agree with). I just want your input, how long would you say you buzz? No more than 10 minutes a day??
+Jacob Carter These days I'll buzz a phrase mid practice if my tone quality isn't as pure as I want it to be. I don't see a huge benefit of doing it during warm ups more than a few minutes, but I certainly don't think it'll hurt anything if you do.
Hey! Fellow music student/trombonist here. Love your video lessons. Just wanted to (politely) point out that you reversed 4 and 5 at 3:10. I wouldn't have said anything, but I'm kind of a grammar nazi when it comes to music theory. Anyways, keep up the awesome work, and I look forward to hopefully some more lessons from you.
I need some advice. So, I have been playing the Trombone for 3 1/2 years. Honestly, I am not the best player. However, I would like to study Music Therapy. In order to do this I have to audition. Do you have any tips? Thanks I really appreciate your time!
p.s. Nice trombone skills :)
My warmup process is a lot shorter and less intricate than yours. Mine mostly consists of low long tones, pedal tones on the mouthpiece, scales, and playing the harmonic series. Then again, my range is a pedal G (G1) to the upper Ab (Ab4), so I don't need as much time.
Hi Chris,I really love your videos. You were saying to make sure that you don't raise your shoulders when you breath. So you think it's okay to take in a breath from your lower lungs, and then when you try to continue to breath and fill your upper lungs, you raise your shoulders?
Is this the choir room at SUNY Purchase?
Can you post a version of you just warming up (full session) without the talking? #nooffense - it would be a great resource for beginning trombonists
Great site Chris. Thank you.
What kind of trombone are you using? Is it the F, D or Bass attachment trombone???
That's an F with a thayer valve
Im going to start praying to you every night
"Chris is love," I say. "Chris is life"
Karter Wood STOP
Silas Osburn damn man I completely forgot this comment existed
Karter Wood LMAO
what bout now
Do you support girl trombonist?... I feel like there aren't many guy trombonists that support girls. There is literally like 5 girls who play it in our entire school.
Hey Brianna! The short answer is of course I support girl trombonists!!
Here's the long answer:
When I was in high school competing in honor bands in the area, the only person my age that (consistently) beat me was a girl! There are some very very fine lady professional trombonists (see: Bones Apart trombone quartet.) You just have to focus on the music, and not that you're a girl, because you can do anything you put your mind to. That's because you're a human, not because you're a boy or a girl. Just keep at it and eventually the people around you will be looking up to you as their inspiration.
Christopher Bill Thanks! I was feeling like I wasn't gonna try out for first chair in a couple of days, cause guys keep telling me I couldn't do it! But I'm gonna try! This made me feel a lot better!
I tried out for one of the two leads for our concert.... annnnddddd I got in!!!!!! All the guys were glaring at me! And all the girls were cheering me on! Thanks for giving me hope!
Brianna Heath I knew you had it in you :). Just keep trying to get better and better- Those guys won't know what happened!
Christopher Bill Haha! Ok thanks soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much!!!!! Now you get a lame joke! What are musicians made of?
tromBONES! Hahahahaaahhhhaaah no
i have a question for you or many of the viewers do the warm up exercises really help you get better
What they really do is allow you to get better, a practice or performance without warming up is never going to be full standard, but warming can be just as important...
I am so sorry this is late but thank you so much for answering my question and now when I practice I will know
how long have you been playing trombone?
Great lesson man
I have a really important question. How can you play your high notes so easily because I am in the 6th grade band at my school and we have to play our scales in warm-ups. Recently,we learned our high E-flat scale and I just can't reach that high E or D even if I practice so hard.
Liliana Prentiss Hey, I'm also a 6th grade trombonist. Guessing that you're using the right technique for achieving high notes already, I would suggest warming up more. It used to be such a struggle to hit the high E-flat and also the high F, but when I started to warm up more it became much easier. Another thing you could to is to attempt to play notes higher than the E-flat , or really high notes in general. That will make it much simpler to play the E-flat. Also, time and experience play a *huge* factor into how high you can play. Your mouth muscles might need to mature a little bit before you can hit high notes. Hope this helped 😀
Very informative video thank you! But for the breathing exercise, when you breathe out, should you be breathing out cold air or warm air?
Usually warm air
boy, I am NOT worthy....makes it look SOOOO easy...I struggle to get a good clean F above the clef consistently, after a 50 year hiatus ( I am nearly 70 ) I have returned to my horn with gusto but struggling with range. Practice daily and do plenty of long tones, lip slurs, and just playing and trying to expand the range...any advice would be welcome.
god man i play trumpet but this is so good that top f is just addicting
what mouthpiece are you using?
Bach5G
I don't know if he had it at the time, but he said in one recent video that he uses a Laskey 59d, which is comparable to a Bach 4g or Schilke 52d
thanks im in 5th (only playing for like 3 weeks:( ) and this help so much
thanks, it helps
which trombone is that?
Holy crud... I know I'm late and all, but how do you get that high?? And fluid with trombone
Hes been playing since 2011
im a starter in trombone playing im in six grade can you give me tips plaese
what am I doing here I play violin lol.. meh idc this is interesting
We don't discriminate :)
they don't, but being a violinist watching a trombone warm up video is a bit weird huh? :D two completely different instruments
TheMagdalena1999 haha yeah what are you doing? :P
idk I left for violin videos hahah
TheMagdalena1999 Hmm my favorite is Jascha Heifetz- check that dude out if you haven't already!
I AM LITERALLY STUCK ON THIS PEICE AND I HATE IT I SUCK AT PLAYING LOW NOTES
This guys is really good! I'm 14 I barely picked up the trombone 5 months ago. I had a great start. I seem to have a natural talent for it. This is the first and only instrument that I have ever played. One day I plan on being ale to do what this guy is doing just as easy
It is a pity that not speak English :( your videos are great!!
Wow you’re amazing what a gift!!! Sorry I had to spy on you a bit just wanted to see who you were😀
Anyone else feel like he was showing off at 8:18
Nathan Cherry that’s not hard to play lmao
You can sing?
K
Whoops
😂😂
Mitchell Flint it's fine