Questions about the Warming Up poster

What’s on the Warming Up poster?

16 entries in 4 groups. Five to ten minutes, low effort, no musical judgement applied. All instruments: Slow, then gradually faster, Full range, quietly, Stop if anything h…; Wind & brass: Long tones, Lip slurs / harmonics, Quiet articulation, Breathing exercises; Strings: Open string bowing, Slow scales, one octave, Shifting exercises, Left-hand f…; Keys & percussion: Hanon or five-finger patterns, Slow contrary-motion scales, Single…. Tension is the enemy of every instrument. A warm-up that creates tension has failed at its only job.

Who is the Warming Up poster for?

Warming Up belongs to the Music section rather than to a school year, because music is not something one grade owns. Anyone learning ear & practice can pin it up — a beginner, a student mid-course, or someone revising years later.

When should you use the Warming Up poster?

Warm up the body, not the repertoire. Speed and difficulty come after, never before. A wall chart earns its place by being glanceable from where the work is happening, so Warming Up belongs on the wall where that music work actually happens, within glancing distance, rather than filed away.

What other posters go with Warming Up?

Hearing Chords, Interval Ear Training and Memorising Music sit alongside Warming Up in the Music section. Printed together they make a wall rather than a single sheet, which is how a reference set actually gets used.Hearing ChordsInterval Ear TrainingMemorising Music

Is the Warming Up poster free to download and print?

Yes. Warming Up downloads as a free PDF with no account, no email and no watermark, like everything else in the Music section. Print as many copies as you like for a home, a classroom, a library or a tutoring group; reselling the file is the only thing the licence rules out.Read the licence

What size does the Warming Up poster print at?

Warming Up is a vector PDF laid out for US Letter, and prints on A4 with Fit to page — the same file, no separate download. Because every mark on it is drawn rather than photographed, it stays sharp enlarged to A3, A2 or A1 at a copy shop. Colour carries emphasis only, so a greyscale print of Warming Up loses nothing.Printing guide