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for what it's worth, i have two basic patterns. if i'm doing something with an untreated piano, i usually do independent runs in each hand until the 4th and 5th fingers of my left hand feel kind of loose. if i'm doing a prepared piano thing, it's entirely different: it usually takes a couple hours to get the preparations as i want them to be, but that whole process is also kind warming up. when things are ready, i usually start trying to figure out what works and what doesn't, so it's more about getting used to the altered sound than about reaching a particular physical situation.
warming up before a performance, particularly a solo thing, is as much about energy conservation as anything else. what i have to make myself be careful about is not playing too much. warm up during sound check and then run away from the instrument.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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