[Trombone-l] Carl on warmups

[Wayne Dyess]

You also have to consider that Carl and people who play as much as he  
did never needed a warm-up.  They simply pick up the horn, and it  
feels like it did yesterday.  Playing in the Navy Band did that for  
me, too.  But unless you have experienced that feeling before, you  
would tend to not understand where Carl is coming from in those warm- 
up comments and demonstration.

For students, especially, the warm up isn't really that at all.  It's  
about attacking the problems of playing -- fundamentals.  That is why  
the Remington Daily Drills or warm-ups, or whatever you want to call  
them, are so good.  They contain most every fundamental a player is  
likely to encounter when playing "real" music.

Carl?  Carl didn't need those.  He was playing 4 hours a day and  
possibly just doodling around the house on top of that.  Even if he  
wasn't doing the outside face time -- he got enough on the gig.   
Nightly.

I understand where he was coming from.  Urbie said essentially the  
same thing at a TMEA convention when asked a similar question, back  
around 1967 or 68.

Now... lo these many years later, I understand the answer.

Face time.  And plenty of it.  Get to the level of performance of  
those guys, and you won't need a warm-up either.

Simple.
Wayne Dyess



On Dec 13, 2006, at 6:49 PM, Chris Tune wrote:


> Unfortunately, this stuff where you get jazz greats out to be in  
> front of
> the "kids" is more akin to entertainment than to serious training.   
> Carl
> does just what Carl does. . .it is going to be close to impossible  
> for a
> student to draw a meaningful inference and arrive at specific warm up
> techniques, from what he said.
>
> Instead, it is useful as a funny example of how unique a warm up  
> can be.
> The warm up is, in Carl's mind, just a way to loosen up a bit.  For  
> many,
> maybe that's what it is.  It varies from person to person anyway.
>
> Chris
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Slothower, Todd" <tslothow at molineschools.org>
> To: "Bill Dinwiddie" <billdin at comcast.net>
> Cc: "List Trombone" <TROMBONE-L at server5.samford.edu>
> Sent: Wednesday, December 13, 2006 1:28 PM
> Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Easy for him to say!
>
>
>
>> I don't know about all of you, but if I hired a clinician and he used
>> that as a demonstration, I would be pretty upset. Give me a break!!!!
>>
>>
>> On Dec 13, 2006, at 9:40 AM, Bill Dinwiddie wrote:
>>
>>
>>> A little tip from Carl!
>>>
>>> http://youtube.com/watch?v=3MkK2L5GRag&mode=related&search=
>>>
>>> forwarded by Bill Dinwiddie
>>> billdin at comcast.net
>>>
>>>