Tag: warm up

• Quick Warm Up

  Having a quick warm-up at my disposal has been a very useful to me. Somedays I have 40 minutes to get my face ready for a day of playing. Unfortunately too often I get only 10-15 minutes to play in the morning. And that’s it! So when my private student informed me that they didn’t have…

  Ed Castro

  December 21, 2015

  Methods, Music, Things

  Balance, brass instruments, middle school students, musician, Routine, trumpet, trumpet routine, warm up

• Clark Terry RIP

  One of my favorite moments as a trumpet student was listening to Clark Terry warm up back stage before a performance. He is also responsible for helping to shape my view of music and becoming a musician. In a master class his quote to the class about improvisation was “first you must imitate, then you…

  Ed Castro

  February 22, 2015

  Music, Thoughts

  Clark Terry, Imitation, Innovation, jazz, master class, musician, NPR, podcast, trumpet, trumpet student, warm up