Five things to warm up.

[DBtrumpet]

5 things to warm up.

1. Brain
2. Breathing
3. Embouchure
4. Tonguing
5. Fingering
6. Brain

Just me, others have a different experience.

[Trumpetb]

For me it is simple

Playing
Listening
Hearing

Listening and hearing are not the same, listening allows me to hear what I am doing in fine detail and in the hearing I understand what I am failing in and what needs immediate attention.

The playing gets me warmed up and ready to play well the correcting of the errors I hear in my playing gets me ready to play to my highest level.

I want to eradicate the mistakes as soon as possible or I end up practicing errors and if I practice errors without immediately correcting them, then I consolidate bad habits and poor playing.

I want to consolidate good habits not bad habits.

[ROWUK]

For me, the first thing is the prepared body. Without a relaxed but straight posture, nothing else can be optimised. After that comes focus - removing distractions from the viewing field... and getting into the mood.
Then comes breathing/exhaling tones - my circle of breath. Once the juices are flowing all of the rest.

[DBtrumpet]

@rowuk Excellent!

[Kehaulani]

Your lips:

[Dr GO]

@kehaulani said in Five things to warm up.:

Your lips:

I am pretty certain, those are not my lips!

[DBtrumpet]

@kehaulani Could be my Xwife......