The Daily Routine of Christian Lindberg
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- A glimpse into what goes along with being a professional trombone soloist, composer and conductor-all at once! Christian Lindberg guides you through his minutely detailed schedule and shows you methods of creating a daily routine designed for world-class efficiency.
I always start the day by playing on my cell phone until the battery dies - then I get out of bed.
I’m blown away, that’s a TON of precision! While I don’t carry my life with nearly that much consistency, I find it far more helpful to set my goals and routines on a weekly basis rather than a daily one, especially during the hectic life of a college student
Of course this is also what Maestro Lindberg does! He has daily, weekly, monthly yearly and 5-10 year goals with all that he does.
Christian Lindberg that’s also brilliant! How does the Maestro keep track of all that? I’ve tried having a ‘to do list’ file on my computer but it can be difficult to stick to
Maestro Lindberg has a 5 year schedule in Excell with all his engagements marked in, and every day and week is marked in. First day of the week he marks in how the wokring schedule should look, and how much time he can devote to every thing he has to prepare. Great to have a to do list on the computer, and you should never punish yourself if it does not work. Best regards Hedvig (Maestro Lindberg´s project manager)
That's where I've been going wrong, I generally have the wine and cheese first, then try to practice...
HAHAHAHAA!! Great sense of humor!! I myself got it wrong the same way as you , until I understood I was fooling myself...best of luck!!!
I love the fact that you're able to do all this in such a simple and easy way and still being an idol for many people (including me). You are a true role-model for not every Trombone player, but for every musician! I hope i can achieve such a peace of mind and professionalism like yours someday.
Wonderful to hear!
Hello Christian Lindberg, my name is Eliezer Marcos, I'm Brazilian and I've been playing the trombone for a few years, I want to tell you that I'm your fan and that I really admire your work, your technique, your Son Maravilhoso on the trombone. Here in Brazil and all over the world you are a great reference for all of us musicians. Congratulations on your work, congratulations on being an excellent professional and a great trombonist. More than 12 years ago I had the honor of seeing you up close in a presentation at the Santa Isabel theater in my city of Recife, state of Pernambuco, I will never forget those few good hours that you performed, thank you very much. May God always bless you.
Mr. Lindberg, you are an absolute inspiration. In a way, it's not surprising that a musician as impactful as you would follow such a diligent schedule, but it is very meaningful to document it for the world!
I watch this video every few months and pick up something new every time.
Tack så mycket! 🎶
Thank you Phil! This warms my heart!!
damn you did more in 1 day than I did all week
Haha!! I like that comment :-)
When I start losing focus and getting lazy I come back to this video
Very nice to hear Daniel!! Keep it up!
The secret is to play Czardas every day!!!!!
Thanks for sharing! First time I listen you was in Oslo about 1984. It was fantastic, tenor and alto trombone, nearly two hours concert. Fantastic! I hope you never stop playing the trombone.
Thanks a lot Leif! I am still playing full speed, preparing for my concerto Golden Eagle with the Swedish Chamber Orchestra
I'm blown away! I love this video for so many reasons. Thank you!
Awesome routine! Thanks for sharing
Dear Christian you are a real workhorse, I now will also start with your about 24 minutes, in my jung ages I played and study'd trombone but got troubles because of my teeth on my upper lip, now after 40 years of intermission I started to play Flugelhorn and like it. Still have a lot to learn! Thanks for your inspiration! Armin
This is incredibly inspiring, maestro. Once school is out for winter I will definitely try out having a strict schedule and see where it takes me.
Thank you four your comment!! Best regards Hedvig Hedberg(Maestro Lindberg´s project manager)
Thanks for sharing. Since you asked, here is my practice routine.
10am wake up.
11am. Tuning and fundamentals practice. 1hr of scales and études with metronome and drone.
12pm-8pm non-music work
9-11:30pm Playing through my parts for band. I alternate singing my part while playing on piano and then playing on trombone.
12am dinner and ear training - listening to my favorite trombonists.
What an example of hard work and concentration. Greetings from Chile Maestro
Great Maestro!
Out of curiosity: Where did you read/learn that a 24 minutes long practice session is the ideal length?
Pomodoro's Method
Amazing, truly inspiring!
I'm a great fan of yours and you inspire me everyday to not give up ... Thanks you a lot !!!
Thanks you so much!
You are number one, always.
I am impressed by how organized, efficient and effective your day is. My routine is not quite as structured although I make it a point to do 2 things every morning- 30 minutes of varied physical exercise (depending on the day) and 30 minutes of trombone practice. I do this between 5:30 and 6:30 am before I begin my day as a parent and an elementary school music teacher. In the afternoon/evening each day, I have varied responsibilities depending on the day, but I do try to get another 30 minutes of practice in. My wife and I have two groups that we are members of so we have one rehearsal on Tuesday evenings and one rehearsal on Sundays.
I don't know that I could ever quite schedule my day as well as yours, but I appreciate seeing what you've done to be so good at what you do and hope to apply some of these ideas. Thank you!
Mike
Hey Mr. Lindberg! Thanks for this impressive video. At first I thought it was meant to be a joke, but in the end I believed you :) Your are very fortunate to have this environment (and earned it, of course). Although some probably find your routine boring, I would do something exactly like that if I had the time :) Nevertheless, I also have some fitness-routines like you do. At the moment I´m feeling very good with 3x running/3x biking (with changing intervals and pulse mostly between 130-145, which is 75%-80% of my age-heartrate) on alternating days and doing a five-to-ten-minute miniature circuit training in the evening (pull-ups, sit-ups, weighted squats, pushups, combined biceps-curls/shoulder presses, each day starting with a different exercise and not till complete exhaustion) - I figured out that obviously there´s quick progress possible with this and increasing repetitions are an objective measurement it works well. Additionally, I´m doing some occasional yoga, mini-trampoline or stepper. Doing sports is essential for me as a person and also as a musician, but I noticed one has to be careful cause there´s a big effect on trombone playing and my "musician-routine-genes" are very dangerous for that, cause for my mental comfort I would love to do the same things every day, but then frequently tend to overtrain myself, which results in less good stamina and a less good sound on the trombone...I guess a "only half recharged battery" also shows on the lips and in ones breath :) In my everyday life, I have a life probably comparable to yours - only on a regional level and not international. My weekly things are conducting a protestant music school, teaching 25 brass students, playing concerts and doing UA-cam-Videos (not every week, though) and doing occasional compositions and arrangements. Also I´m having a family with two kids (6/3). All in all, that´s a lot to do and a lot of fun :) Sorry for this very detailed comment. You are (besides my love of music and my fascination for trombone playing) one of the big reasons I became a musician (and not a sports teacher, which I studied at first). Greetings, Michael
Very inspiring a and motivating!
Thanks Igal!
I have a daily routine as well. Trying to fit trombone practicing in it now after several decades of not playing it. Starting with the lip of course.
You are so strong! I want to be like you . I play trombone too and i still got so many to learn!
Thank you Rahimah!
Great routine of life, congratulations!
Thank you four your contribution! Best regards Hedvig Hedberg(Maestro Lindberg´s project manager)
Amazing man.
Everything about this is perfect. I would love to have this routine.
Thank you Alex!
What is the bluish sleeve on the bell of your horn?
Excellent...I like your routine...👍
A good bottle of Barolo! Great Master!
incredible organization of time to do all about music this is the best way to do that we love, i am not the more organised because for me it's a little difficult to put the exactly time for doing excersice and practice trombone, but i try to keep in order this 2 things every day (all the day), excelent video to help me with that problem.
Hedvig (Maestro Lindberg´s project manager)
Can I visit you for a month and have this schedule with you??? I love it!
Personally, Christian is the best trombonist in this world.
My routine consists in watching TV in 5 different languages while playing the trombone and doing some calisthenics!!
Very inspirational, thank you for the video.
Nice routine I wish I could have one as same as yours unfortunately life is been too hard for me as making STOP do the most I love in life ( playing trombone) 😭 however I have to thank you for being my inspiration and at least keep dreaming that one day I can do what I love in life you're a great musician and love watching playing
Regards
Tiago Barbosa
Dear Laurindo, Thanks so much for this wonderful message. Just go for it! You only live once, so you might just take every chance to do what you really dream of doing! Best of luck!! Christian
This is remarkable!
Thanks!
Brilliant!! I need to lift my game!
this is AWESOME! You are inspirational.
Thanks Ben!
Holy crap you replied!!!! I play trombone myself and am a professional musician in NYC. Please check out some of my videos I have some up on youtube as well as the smalls jazz club archive.
What a dream. My routine is going to work or looking after my baby with my wife. I can hardly fit anything else in my life at the moment.
You remind me of old zorro and its possibly the best thing ever
I just ordered your 4cl mouthpiece. Can't wait for it to get here!!
Wonderful! Let me know what you think when you get it! I love it myself!
I have enjoyed watching your punctuality and discipline. Although for someone from Las Vegas, how does the midnight sun and polar nights affect your routine?
Great Composer!
Thanks a lot Alexandre!!
Your morning swim was longer than my practice session before I watched this video.
That is a very organised schedule, I don’t think I could ever be so organised haha.
Video molto interessante, perché spiega in modo chiaro tutto quello che si deve fare per diventare un musicista a tutti gli effetti.
Very good plan. I should try a similar routine playing the violin, biking and composing maybe also conductinh.
Wonderful! Best of luck with this!!
UN HONOR CONOCERLO MAESTRO.. ESCUCHARLO EN VIVO ME MOTIVO A SEGUIR CON MI INSTRUMENTO... LO ADMIRO MUCHO!
Maestro, I really gotta know this. Do you swim in the ocean every season or you switch that activity with something other during the winter?? 😅 you're my inspiration maestro, that's why I'm asking!
I don't hv a routine for my day but I do have a routine for trombone practices.... (like I finished that 5 hour routine then the rest of the day maybe being a slave inside my school (?))
My favorite horn is a 72H. Have you ever played one? I play it more than my 88H in our wind ensemble.
What trombone do you play is it custom or like a 42 bo
Wow ! That's a great routine right here ! But is it really better than mine ?
7:30 : I wake up
7:35 : I wake up once more because I just missed the first alarm
7:36 : I realize that I still have depression and that everyone hate me for the terrible person that I am
7:37 : I cry
7:38 : I get back to bed for the rest of the day
Now THIS is what I like to call a good day 👍
HAHAHA!! You are probably right! Cosy and warm in the bed, and you can dream a free schedule instead with lots of exciting activities!
I feel you.
18:00 Czardas 👍
Hi Christian, I Love to make my Routine which is choosen to my wonderful aims. In your Video it Looks like, that you only make your Routine to fixed times.
1. But what do you do when you for example have new great ideas for composing but the time for composing is over? Is it better in your experience to continue composing or to continue to the next routine?
2.
How many 20 minutes Trombone practice sessions are most effectively every day?
3. Hiw often do you do these daily routines a week? (5 days a week or every second day?)
Very nice Video and very inspiring!
Thanks Coach!
Max Weber (Trombone and Drums)
Dear Max thanks a lot for your nice message. 1. Actually the best is to stop and go to the next routine. Then I will be so thrilled coming back to it again, and I have never really forgotten about ideas or inspirational thoughts. Discipline in my opinion is the absolute best way to tease creativity!!! 2. At the moment I do 4-5 per day (24 minutes) but when I was 100% doing trombone career it could be up to 12-16 24 minute sessions per day. I would say 5-8 sessions is a good balance!! 3 I usually do it 3 days in a row, and then relax, but sometimes I have done it 9 days in a row. As I said in another answer below, 3 days of my daily routine is as effective as a full week without this carefully planned routine. However, it is very important not to do it every single day, because if you do you become a totally isolated creature without anything to tell humanly as an artist BEST OF LUCK!!! Christian
Wow, thanks a lot for these very helpful answers! I can't wait to check it out the next weeks!
Best Max Weber
I do 30 min work blocks for my work as a mathematician. I also think about what to do when overtime. Usually i stop, but make one or two sentences of notes on my ‘’important’’ plans.
Its so interesting to see others with similarly deliberate approaches to occupation.
I remember a study that I thought said 26 minutes for optimum concentration, but I could have just mis remembered. Do you know which study says 24 minutes is the optimum practice time?
Very good question Benjamin...??... it was so long ago, in fact as far back as the 80s when I read about those things, so I can not remember the source. Maybe you are right??? I might even have shorten the session by two minutes to be absolutely sure, but I also remember that I felt I needed minimum 6 minutes for the brain to recover, and to start on equal half hours was practical. Interesting, I am going to search again for the source! Thanks for your interest Benjamin!!
Hi Christian,
Do you do your Workout (in the Video 1:04 min) with a Metronom/Click. In your great Video I can hear it silently in the background. Thanks for your inspiration Coach! Best Max Weber
Incredible! Who makes your lunch? And get's the cheese? Isn't it hard to skip dinner after so much work-out in the afternoon?
I have a wonderful wife who makes lunch packages, for this, and also, but sometimes I also cook do it myself. The tea with bread and marmelade keeps me from feeling hungry.
I also don’t practice 8 hrs a day. I play maybe 50-60 min a time and then do some other things in between. The time between sessions vary, but the latest gap is 13 yrs...😢
Need to attend to my Mercedes Bach II a little bit MORE I think.
I have very bad patience, I listen to a good record or cd with maestro Lindberg or professor Landgren and if I can’t play exactly the way they play within 45 min I get mad...or fatigue.
So I just Put on the record or cd again and enjoy them master the greatest instrument there ever was...after the piano.
Maybe that 24 min thing is something I should start practice?
Mmmm…when do you do the mundane things….shopping…cleaning…washing…ironing…repairing the bicycle puncture ?
I noticed a wedding ring, so when does family time come into it?
This is a routine that Maestro Lindberg uses only in periods. Inbetween he has days where he only uses this routine partly, and then he devotes time to his lovely wife (that he has been together with for 40 years), four children with spouses and three grandchildren.
Christian Lindberg I don’t know why but that makes me really happy. I was wondering if he had a wife and family. Its nice that he sets a lot of time aside for them.
too much relaxing time
That’s an incredible routine!
I’m sure you get these questions often, but what mouthpiece do you use on your tenor? I’m thinking of purchasing your 4Cl. I think that you’re the best bone player, and I also don’t really believe in buzzing with the mouthpiece, lol, so I want to try to get an identical tone to yours.
Keep doing great man!
Thanks a lot for your encouraging message. I play 4CL 98% of the time, it works almost for everything. If occationally I need a little darker sound I can switch to 2CL without any problem, and if I need more brightness, or better endurance in the high register I switch as easily to 5CL. But 4CL, YES! I can certainly recommend that! Best Christian
I also Love to play trombone and Drink good vine from Austria ( "Grüner Veltliner, Zweigelt, Blaufränkisch......"🍷🇦🇹❤🎶🎼🎵)
LG from Austria 😁😂🤣
Any advice on wine and beer pairings?
Anyone know the songs used?
I looks super precise. But, if you have family, if you should go shopping food, to travel, to make office things... this is super if you are alone and works at home i think. what would be from a normal musician, who has to prepare hemself the food, travell to the place of work etc.?
I have a wonderful family and family life, 4 kids and 5 grandchildren, and this schedule is of course not something for EVERY DAY of your life!! The ideal solution is to use one day to prepare for, let´s say, a section of 5 days of this daily routine. In 5 days I then get more done than I would normally in a month! That means you can spend the gained time with your family and friends and really enjoy it fully!
@@ChristianLindbergTrombone Thanks so much for the response. It´s apleasure to receive a answer from you. You are a Legend. I try to do it like you, always sessions to 24 min, sometimes to 13 min or 9 min. But thanks a lot for share.
The temporal precision is frightening... Do you have German roots? We are always said to be totally punctual, despite DB
hi christian -- very inspiring! how many times a year do you get to do this intensive retreat and routine? or is it a monthly thing?
~billy jonas
Whenever I have some days without concerts of rehearsal I go to this place and usually go 3-5 days in a row to do this routine. Sometimes I even do it up to 10 days in a row depending of how many pieces I have to prepare.
Thanks!
What is about your wife, Children; Friends? Family?
This is of course something I do in periods not every single day of the year, and when I am alone at my mansion. I have a wonderful family of four kids and 3 grand children, and a wife that I was married to for 37 years. Also I am a very sociable person, so there is always time for that too. I can tell you though, that with this schedule I get more done in 3 days than in a week in a normal environment.
Thank You Christian for Your answer!
You seem to be really fit. Even more so than my PE “coaches.”
Man, I tought swedes used saunas only as a luggage area.
When does he bathe? (besides the 1 minute shower in the morning)
A hardworking prisoner.
What was the piece you were playing at 7:51 in your Daily Routine?
It is my Double Bass Concerto called "Blackbear in Motion". ua-cam.com/video/_X4qX2wzqzw/v-deo.html
Whoops meant 9:51
aha!! that is my trombone concerto "Golden Eagle"
When do you conduct? When do you preform?
You can find my complete schedule on this link: www.tarrodi.se/cl/index.asp?show=14
I noticed that empty bottle of grey goose in the trombone room
Yes...you are very attentive...
Reminds me of kinobody.
Do you have a goal or time limit while on the toilet?
HAHAHA!!
Now I know the routine of the man who made me give up trombone. After hearing the level of his virtuosity, I decided to learn other instruments. Who else in the world can play Vivaldi on a Posaune?
I would like to know your age. I am 85 and do only a fraction of what your day includes. I intend to take your advise and practice in the morning.
I turn 60 in February. Great that you are still in shape being 85!! I hope to reach your age :-)
You may well go beyond 85, and I hope you do because your gifts are a blessing on us all! 8-)
WOW
Thank you :-) Hedvig (Maestro Lindberg´s project manager)
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24 minutes? crap, I'd do 2 hour practice sessions at times. guess thats not good
Try 24, 6min break 24, 6 min break and 24 6min break 24...I really think that using the 2 hours this way will give you more result!! Let me konw how it feels!! Best of luck!! Christian
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omg
Rachel Maddow news?? Lol
I was with you until Rachel Madcow!
Watches Rachel maddow, loses all respect
Does he brush his teeth?
Yes! After Breakfast!
Wow, now we know why u r arguably one of the greatest trombonists ever. Your schedule and ur adhesiveness to it is quite impressive and inspirational . Props to Mr. Lindbergh
Thanks a lot Arin!!
When does he have time to clean dishes, do laundry, buy groceries?
I just wanted to let you know that you have been an amazing inspiration to me. I started trombone practice about 22 years ago. I have most of your studio CDs and have been absolutely blown away at your mastery of the trombone and beautiful playing. Unfortunately, I stopped playing consistently about 13 years ago, but I still listen to your music on occasion. I did not realize how disciplined you are with your routine, and the amount of dedication you put to your craft until watching this video. However, it makes perfect sense upon watching, given your skill. Keep up the great work, and thank you for being such an inspiration to me and countless others.
Dear Jmastaaflex, what a wonderful message to receive! Yes, everything in life needs effort, and the discipline is necessary to reach artistic goals and visions. I hope you keep going, and finally want to give you a Dostojevskij quote: " Life is not about reaching the goal, it is about the road up until reaching the goal" Best of luck with everything!!
Incredibly inspiring. Thanks for sharing, maestro.
I love his precision! It really communicates both his style of playing and life. This is so inspiring as a young trombonist.
Dear God!
Very interesting video! Anyway, I think that it’s very very difficult to do EVERY of this things many days of the year. There are so much variables...! thanks for the video