This is a exalted warm up for beginners and intermediate trumpet players. Warm ups for professionals are easily obtained on the internet. This warm up is useful for players who have less time or who are not playing every day. It covers some of the key skills in a short time. If you are just taking out your trumpet for a quick session, these exercises will get you playing at your optimum in a go like greased lightning.

The following steps can be extended as time permits. Note: optimum warm ups should be between thirty and forty minutes.

A good pre warm up is to pay attention to to some professional players warming up before you start. Try to emulate the warmth and tone, not just on the trumpet but on the mouthpiece and even in the lip buzzing.

Breathing – this is very likely the single most important exercise and forms the basis of all wind instrument skills.

1. Start by expelling all air out from lungs then take a full puff, hold air in lungs without the use of throat or lips using just your diaphragm. Do this for 20 seconds and extend the spell with practice.

2. Remove mouthpiece and first slide. Now take full breaths and expel air directly into trumpet tube as quickly as possible. Reproduction 3 times.

3. I have combined three skills into this exercise. Singing, buzzing on mouth piece and buzzing on lips. Start with nine crochets at 80 beats per wink. From C-G and then down to C again. Sing, then buzz then play mouth piece. Then take it up a tone and so on. As high as is comfortable. Don't neglect to trill with a good tone as this is good warm up for the ear. Do this for 3-4 minutes.

4. Have a short rest, then blow the lips like a horse, then say Ahhh and Ohhh with lips stretched and lips as wide as possible for Ahhh and rounded for Ohhh

5. Buzz mouthpiece from low C as high as possible and back down again. Do this within 5 seconds and as smoothly as plausible applying NO lip pressure. Repeat for about 1 minute.

6. Soft long tones at 60 beats per min. Play 4...

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