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The recipe for bad face:
Take one heavy playing day that ends by five. Let the chops sit for up to 24 hours, then begin your warm-up as usual. Voila! You now feel like you have a face of stone and sound like… well, we won’t discuss that.
I managed to pull this recipe off in spectacular fashion yesterday. It took me an hour and a half of fundamentals and soft playing before I felt normal again. I kept staring at the piano in my studio wondering what it would be like to sit down to an instrument and have it work and feel exactly the same everyday, no matter what you did the day before. I swear, the things we have to put up with as trumpet players…
Craig,
I was wondering if you do any kind of a “warm down” after a really heavy day, and your thoughts on the subject?
Best,
Roy Griffin