Wynton Marsalis Warming Up

Backstage at Marciac Jazz Festival on August 1, 2009

[@AsianTarzan94]

Im 16 years old, and when I saw him last night, I was watching Ali Jackson on the drums, then I looked and Wynton was looking right at me and smiled and nodded to me. Very Awesome.

[@SuperMaDBrothers]

AsianTarzan94 so ur 24 now how does it feel bro

[@8starsAND]

I wish you're good now

[@_maxcaulfield_4672]

​@@SuperMaDBrothers he's 27now

[@mooncher]

​@@_maxcaulfield_4672 He's 28 now😐

[@frogiwthoutahat]

His warming up is better than my peak performance... Oh the joy

[@SuperMaDBrothers]

you perform warmup exercises?

[@lordteacup2545]

HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@jeremykelker8908]

Does it make you feel better to know he's also left-handed?

[@tuzkosalamon1450]

OF COURSE HE IS WYNTON FUCKIN MARSALIS HIS FEEL IS ABOVE ALL JAZZ HAHAHAH

[@nbrister1]

Damn. I don't play anywhere near like that on my best days, and he's just warming up. A true virtuoso.

[@NjabuloHadebe]

I like how you mention on your "best days"... tell me more about it

[@nbrister1]

+pious Hadebe what do you mean?

[@SamuelPlaysBrass]

+pious Hadebe Most everyone has days when their chops feel great and everything works and in contrast days when everything feels like complete dogshit, if you'll excuse my French.

[@NjabuloHadebe]

+Samuel Plays Brass Oh yes, I thought as much. It can be very frustrating. Do you perhaps know what causes that and any tips to keep your chops intact? excuse my English i'm from Africa.

[@SamuelPlaysBrass]

pious Hadebe Anything can, from the weather if you play outside to getting a cut on your lip. I don't know how to keep your chops intact aside from not getting frustrated and using pressure on your lips to hit high notes when those bad days come. Also, your English is very good! Keep it up!

[@brianbaumgarn5795]

I heard Wynton missed a note August 6th, 2004, but no one was there to hear it!. He absolutely amazes me everytime I hear him.

[@ghp7382]

Switch the 4 and 6 and you got my birth day

[@trossitrumpet]

Not only can he play every style of jazz, quote the best players from every style, but he can dominate the classical field as well. Wynton Marsalis is in my opinion not only the greatest living trumpet player, but the greatest trumpet player of all time! The only argument that I could possibly think one could have against that is that Marsalis has not innovated as much as Pops, Dizzy, or Miles. That aside, skill-wise he is the greatest to play the horn and it is an absolute joy to hear him play

[@TucsonDude]

Excellent + Famous does not necessarily make someone the best ever. Who's to say there's not an instructor with no fame, but is a true master?

[@hiimrezgaming9885]

@hugo Thats the most idiotic quote i have ever heard xD

[@codyjackson8884]

Ali Jackson is a beast.

[@OrcaTrumpet]

Woody Shaw had incredible facility and expression 🐬

[@franklee1550]

Be wary of idolization. Wanting us an excellent trumpet player, but to say he dominates as a classical player is naive to say the least.

[@zqa12swx]

Man that low F# comes out smoother than butter

[@evalex71]

Wynton performed at my high school during my senior year in 1989. I was an usher and therefore got to watch the concert for free and also got to meet him backstage. He was incredible in concert and, personally, was a gentleman and a terrific guy. When I asked him to give me advice as an aspiring trumpet player he said, in so many words, that you have to practice, playing the trumpet is difficult even for him.

[@samueladam8725]

I just love this video. The idea of practicing excellence on the instrument whenever you play, including when warming up, is something that everyone should subscribe to.

[@MichaelBrewick]

It kills me that he can't resist mentioning how good RK is at that slur exercise. What a class act all the way, always loved Wynton for 25 years now.

[@0983Blade]

Even his warming up sounds so effortless it’s almost beyond words. I’m going to see him and Chuck Corea tonight as an early birthday gift for my dad. Since we both love jazz, it should be an awesome treat for my dad’s 70th. Keep up the great work Mr Marsalis and thank you for the enjoyable decades of musical prowess that you have shared with us mortals

[@elkhartmartin]

yes. and the greatness of marsalis is that he acknowledges and celebrates the greatness of all his "rivals" . which you have to appreciate.

[@Threepi80]

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[@buzzerbeater9000]

I love hows he's doing this all while laying back in a chair...

[@psander78]

I love how he just goes into phantom mode at 3:21, SHEESH!! Back to woodshed I go!

[@SD_702]

I first saw this as an iTunes music video. I've probably watched this 200 times. Legend in flesh.

[@myseanmiller3186]

Wynton is simply The GOAL of The Trumpet. A Beast... and he is his own originality. He can play with anyone before/after his time. Wynton 1 bad musician not just a trumpeter remember that.

[@inthemomenttomoment]

IT'S A MONET MOUTHPIECE WYNTON IS USING. YET, IT'S NOT THE MOUTHPIECE BUT THE MAN.

[@rollacoasterreview8278]

Tom Ato monette* I’m a monette horn player so I know he owns one aswell

[@CheckeredPast]

It's amazing to see the thought process in development of solo's.. constructing ideas flowing them together and well just made me want to practice first thing in the morning!

[@davidfranklin9578]

If the internet existed and I knew how to use it,we me everybody would benefit from people like this man.

[@somedude8403]

Finally a video of this great player (Wynton Marsalis), by himself. No drums, ect. Now for a guy my age (26), this is real music to the ears.

[@michaelsanchez347]

I'm your age now when you posted this 11 years ago. What's it like being 37?

[@jjohnsontrumpet]

how can you dislike a warm-up

[@gabrielwolf2352]

wow, he is human. what a relief.

[@craigsalvatore3401]

I'd pay money just to watch and listen to him warm up!

[@samcheramie5856]

That half valving is so damn smooth

[@MyDoomedAccount]

I play trombone, I love Wynton, I transcribe his solo into my trombone repertoire. And I liked this video

[@DaDubbaC]

The really awesome thing about this video is that as listeners we can organize what Wynton's approach to warm up is (in this video at least) into broad categories and then apply it to our own playing abilities! Thanks so much for posting this! It helped me organize my own warm up schedule. Or at least think about some different ways to approach that all-important, ever-overlooked, and underrated beast that is the Warm Up!

[@trumpeterval8751]

Thank you Mr Marsalis for the lesson. Thank you Mr Casey posting.

[@badddnote]

Wow! I love the different sounds he gets out of the horn and the accents he puts in there is really cool too. That is really inspirational....I think I'm going to go 'shed now

[@thewatermelonlion2952]

awesome! love the mixture of the bronze trumpet and gold mouthpiece.

[@swampdweller5]

Thanks for sharing this! Fantastic-

[@bellm60]

what a great compliment for Ryan Kisor

[@HectorGallegosmusic]

This is a very helpful video and inspirational to me as a trumpet player. I've only seen Wynton performing pretty much flawlessly but it's interesting watching Wynton as any other trumpet player doing some warming up, checking the range with alternate fingerings, etc.... I really enjoyed it.

[@lcthorn225]

That drill starting at 3:20 and ending at 3:47 was crazy good

[@sugisugi291]

ずっと聴いていられる

[@Funkadelic3]

How the hell does he slur like that?! Lol Wynton and Ryan Kisor both have tremendous flexibility

[@Jayessdablu]

joe740544 practice

[@benjamindhall]

This looks like it's right before a show. He'd probably been playing all day by that point. More of a mental warmup than anything, I'm sure. Love it!

[@Veksta]

this video is gold!

[@giyentstepp]

I agree. And a warm up is meant to find embouchure. He's probably already found his by this point. And then he's Wynton Marsalis - so that means the brain-muscle thing is mastered many times over. Sounds like he's playing extended patterns, arpeggios and other altered patterns that jazz trumpet students practice to help improvisation which makes sense because he's probably about to go on stage. He encompasses and preserves total knowledge of the styles within the jazz idiom. Great clip.

[@gotthesesongs]

I must have watched this 25 times

[@yvoncormier9762]

This is how it's done🔥

[@badddnote]

He's a fantastic musician. Mouthpiece, horn, whatever! It doesn't matter. Music comes from your heart, mind, experience AND work! Plenty of hard work. That's what's inspiring, not licks, horns, mouthpieces but soul and WORK!

[@karajanfan15]

His low notes are so beautiful.

[@HueyShabazz]

Right. Learning is a never-ending process for every body.

[@dickmexico7]

enlightening, truly.

[@effnpee]

It doesn't get any better than that.

[@Josh_Roberts]

oh shit he split a note at 4:53.....he is human!

[@NjabuloHadebe]

lol he is human.

[@michaelkeator9170]

Barely.

[@ryangreen9378]

+Josh Roberts no he is just trying to make it seem like he is human so that people don't question him

[@NjabuloHadebe]

XD!

[@KevinGenus]

He did it on purpose....

[@etyrnal]

gorgeous tone

[@llnirvanallsottile9896]

Beautiful

[@sisimaruraru]

ウォームアップもカッコイイ！

[@markwarren518]

As a trombone player, I like this video. I also play trumpet, so that may be why.

[@jazzbonept]

Likewise. On both points (although I wouldn’t say I can really ply trumpet…).

[@leatherbarrel]

damn, he's not even kicking his 1st/3rd slides, what a beast

[@AWES0MEDEFENDER]

its because his trumpet is perfect

[@llamont123]

I don't believe his trumpet has a 1st valve slide ring/trigger mechanism.

[@Gr8nessnMe070]

really dude? It's called having an ear and hearing the notes before you play them.

[@alexcarter8807]

I'm too damn lazy to use mine. I hear the note in my mind then make the note I guess, like whistling. As I told a friend who plays sax; "You gotta know where you're going, or you'll end up somewhere else!". This guy ... it's like watching Leonardo da Vinci doodle, or hearing Bach just messin' around ... a master at play.

[@mrssquarepants1000]

love his eyebrow movements :D

[@nealhillam5622]

The GOAT!

[@L13BAZ]

1:54 - first time I've ever heard him split a note. And he was warming up. Wow.

[@azhiba]

Thanks for sharing... cool it has been filmed from the side so that one can see the valving (-:

[@Hardyimpact21]

Clifford, Lee Morgan and all those other cats would appreciate this

[@NoochyWoochy]

That trumpet he is holding.... It's one of my most famished dreams to have that trumpet.

[@DerkDoesCrime]

bob m marley Brand is Monette as far I know

[@GBUKMilo]

I could list to the 1st half of that all day. In fact I will.

[@felipedias6297]

impressionante a facilidade e dominio sobre o instrumento....

[@OzoneOso]

now this is how you warm up!

[@McRaeStudios]

Ryan Kisor: trumpet player

[@pankfan60]

+David McRae I'll say! I didn't catch his comment about Kisor's slurring until the second viewing. Interesting.

[@jambajoby32]

David McRae Kisor has a new short video of him & lip slurs

[@dfirstperson]

At this level of musicianship, there are no better or worse. You can have your preference!

[@sasktrucker487]

those low lips slurs though!....wow!!!!

[@jubal76]

Wynton/Skain is a BEAST!!!

[@this_musical_life]

People only dislike this because Wynton can not only warm up better than they can actually play but also because his mouth piece alone cost more than the trumpet they may or may not possess.

[@MrMrsCorvette]

@MCroach1 Thank you for the details! In addition to the work with clark's studies, I have been working on Flight of the Bumblebee. They go nicely together.

[@BoyYardee]

True Virtuoso! EL Maestro del Trompeto!

[@olivierbodson]

Just" thank you" for music !!!

[@Globaljazzer500]

astounding!! words fail ....and me likes to tell it as it is man? Wynton is a ftyer ....up and out of the stratosphere!

[@dbrown251]

I love arpeggios, I can mess around all day playing nothing but arpeggios. And that day will be a full and complete productive day in my eyes LOL :)

[@shgarrett624]

💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕....I love Wynton..🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@KBluetrump7]

Living legend! That's all I can really say him.

[@trptguy23]

guys he not trying to play perfect he trying to get the whole mind body connect in a completely relaxed way....his fingers are working on their own accord. I think he is doing what Kenny Werner does all the time.

[@timlanders2435]

wynton is the best hands down tone i flawless just a great player

[@valter1974]

Wynton vc nao existe. é o melhor da atualidade.

[@elgagor]

Wynton Marsalis Plays very congratulations manow, tha ta congratulations, your show is improvised, I'm from Brazil, adimiro much their sound, congratulations man, wanted to one day play with tha, apreder some of his jazz;)

[@topiaz951]

what a boss!!! what a beast!!!

[@MrMrsCorvette]

@MCroach1 Thank you for answering. I am referring to the faster notes part of the warmup; Also, what is "airball"? and do you mean A (Major scale) and the 6th above it? I do various warmu ps from Mel Bay's Trumpet Handbook and Clark's Technical studies. I'm a bit of a rookie in all these things. Thanks for your help!

[@rodfriesen6697]

Nice warmup! Horn Players Rock!

[@MilsonAndres]

Jum... MAESTRISIMO!

[@xXMusicRider097Xx]

When you can play like Wynton, you can diss him... Yeah, that's what I thought.

[@phyllispetras2181]

WHOA!!!!

[@0HORNMASTER0]

$20,000 trumpet ...

[@loganwhittington4817]

Priceless talent

[@hunteralexander9791]

I found the exact same trumpet at a yard sale for $5. Name a price and I'll sell it to you lol

[@bjc2]

No you didn't.

[@SedentaryArtist]

Grossly overpriced

[@bjc2]

Please tell us more about your understanding of what it costs to build a horn like that.

[@nickalsk117]

makes me want to start warming up...

[@InstantSoup4]

@swmita I think the airy sound is from his equipment. I was talking to my teacher Darren Barrett yesterday about my B2S3 prana mouthpiece (I play on a Monette LTJ too) and how I sometimes get an airy sound when I dont want it. Its a great sound but I dont want it all the time. So yeah.

[@josipmihalke]

monette sounds great

[@AustinCasey]

That's the dumbest comment anyone has ever written on one of my videos... Wynton LOVES those cats that you mentioned and plays music by them very often and even has put on tribute concerts in honor of them. I've spoken with him and heard him speak live and in interviews and he discusses every style/era of Jazz and mentions every player from Buddy Bolden to Jonathon Batiste. I do agree with you that he is one of the best Jazz performers of our time though! :-D -Austin

[@MikeRochaMusicAcademy]

@MrMrsCorvette Ok. To clarify: Wynton is improvising while throwing in a few good practice techniques like, arpeggios, scales, lip trills, etc. I think what you are referring to is what he's doing while he's still playing in the A-6 mode towards the beginning. A-6 means "A" Minor 6. The minus sign means a minor quality to the chord or altered tension. If I wrote A7-9 that would mean "A" Dominant 7 with a lowered 9th scale degree. Remember, he is improvising when playing his warmup. It's not

[@BradleyMellophone]

DAT TONE!!

[@CjHost]

ladies n gentlemen, Wynton marsalis (applause)

[@yougianfir]

In the first 3 min I think he’s working on “You and the Night and the Music” as reference. Can you hear that?

[@willy1986tralara]

omg we have a master here... everebody be quiet and cool!

[@maestrobetobarros]

The greatest trumpetist of the world

[@Fe4rEdsNIp3z]

I have a friend in my school that got to play a duet with Wynton Marsalis

[@SuperMaDBrothers]

Stay Woke where/how

[@CJ79071]

@kingoliver45 does it help on range? and how much does it cost?

[@willy1986tralara]

fucking incredible

[@cameter44]

That tone quality though....

[@robertodp88]

Can someone tell me in which book can I find this warm up? Hahahaha!!! Wynton is the best!!!

[@bjc2]

@skillfrombrazil C Locrian scale - all the same notes as Db major. At 4:14 he plays a Bb minor idea into a Db major sound (all of which is still really within the key of Db major.)

[@tomaszdwornik6029]

Top.

[@Cheesehuggerz]

wow, just amazing flexibility and sound.