As a trumpet participant, I usually warmed up with lengthy tones. Usually, I might play a be aware for 8 beats, beginning off with a crescendo for the primary 4 beats, then a decrescendo to the eighth beat. Starting band college students do not all the time have the chops for this, although, so you may begin off with complete notes with none crescendo or decrescendo, then add a crescendo for the primary two beats and a decrescendo for beats 3 and 4, after which work as much as 6 beats of lengthy tones (3 getting louder, 3 getting quieter), after which lastly get to eight. College students can do that on every of their first 5 notes; you would possibly put 4 beats of relaxation in between in order that they’ve time to determine the fingering for the following be aware, and to offer their lips a relaxation. It is a useful method to get college students snug with every be aware and every fingering, and to construct their stamina.
For percussion, you may method it in quite a lot of methods: you may have them play quarter notes as everybody else performs the lengthy tones, you may have them roll on the be aware, or you may have them play an ostinato (like ti-ti ta ti-ti ta) as everybody performs.