The Daily Routine of Christian Lindberg 

I always start the day by playing on my cell phone until the battery dies - then I get out of bed.

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

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.

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

That's where I've been going wrong, I generally have the wine and cheese first, then try to practice...

damn you did more in 1 day than I did all week

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.

I love his precision! It really communicates both his style of playing and life. This is so inspiring as a young trombonist.

I'm blown away! I love this video for so many reasons. Thank you!

Incredibly inspiring. Thanks for sharing, maestro.

The secret is to play Czardas every day!!!!!

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

Great Maestro!

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.

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! 🎶

What an example of hard work and concentration. Greetings from Chile Maestro

Amazing, truly inspiring!

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.

When I start losing focus and getting lazy I come back to this video

Very inspirational, thank you for the video.

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

Im enjoying watching this video!This gives me motivation to put my day in order and to be more sucessfull in things i do.Im playing trombone too,im 16years old and this video is just motivation plus for me.Thank you!

Excellent...I like your routine...👍

You are number one, always.

Your precision and organization is awe inspiring, thank you so much for this!

My routine is haggard if I were to compare. My passion is my strong point and has yielded, with a lot of work, good results. I'm a salsa trombone player and R'n B and Jazz aspirant. To see a day in your life is quite a magnificent window into a real way to play at higher levels. I thank you. You're like a monk. At least in this video. We know that the internet has no bias for truth or deception, so always caveat emptor but I'm a believer in the case.

Have been refining my routine, in order to optimize my output. This is what brought me here. Sure wish I had that Pool, Ocean, Sauna combo to knock the edge off during points in the day. Maybe one day.

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.

I'm a great fan of yours and you inspire me everyday to not give up ... Thanks you a lot !!!

Great!!

Great routine of life, congratulations from Brazil!!

Great routine of life, congratulations!

Very inspiring a and motivating!

Amazing man.

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.

Brilliant!! I need to lift my game!

This is remarkable!

You're the best 😍

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.

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

Thanks!

Thank you for sharing so much years of experience in managing demanding and busy schedule ! This might well be the most inspirational pieces of advices I've seen in a long time ! Let's see how I can optimize my daily life with these ;-)

Out of curiosity: Where did you read/learn that a 24 minutes long practice session is the ideal length?

A good bottle of Barolo! Great Master!

this is AWESOME! You are inspirational.

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 RU-vid-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

You are so strong! I want to be like you . I play trombone too and i still got so many to learn!

You remind me of old zorro and its possibly the best thing ever

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.

Dear God!

Hello Christian Limberg, I wanted to say you are such an inspiration to me and I love you music and work ethic. I’ve been playing trombone for 4 years now and I will always love it. My favorite piece is Ferdinand David Concerto because of the symphonic and romantic sound. Your playing and tone is incredible! Do you have any advice to build tone?

I LOVE RACHEL MADDOW!!! Granted, I also love swimming, running, biking, and of course playing the trombone.

Can I visit you for a month and have this schedule with you??? I love it!

I just ordered your 4cl mouthpiece. Can't wait for it to get here!!

Everything about this is perfect. I would love to have this routine.

wow very impressive , not only a great musician but a philosopher of life , thanks for inspiring me to do the same

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?

Video molto interessante, perché spiega in modo chiaro tutto quello che si deve fare per diventare un musicista a tutti gli effetti.

That is a very organised schedule, I don’t think I could ever be so organised haha.

Very good plan. I should try a similar routine playing the violin, biking and composing maybe also conductinh.

And inspiring

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

Great Composer!

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

What is the bluish sleeve on the bell of your horn?

My favorite horn is a 72H. Have you ever played one? I play it more than my 88H in our wind ensemble.

Greetings Mr. Lindberg, may I ask do you have this exact routine by minute every day? Thank you.

What trombone do you play is it custom or like a 42 bo

UN HONOR CONOCERLO MAESTRO.. ESCUCHARLO EN VIVO ME MOTIVO A SEGUIR CON MI INSTRUMENTO... LO ADMIRO MUCHO!

Any advice on wine and beer pairings?

My routine consists in watching TV in 5 different languages while playing the trombone and doing some calisthenics!!

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!

Sou um grande fan desse cara gostaria muito de ter uma pequena aula com ele

hello christian! verry nice routine! i play trombone for 3 years now and i don.t have a verry good high register. can you give me some tips for improving high register? thank you. (ps I.m 15 years old and i can get up to G - A)

Hi Maestro Lindberg. Your discipline to this routine is beyond inspiring. One question about your 24 minute practice sessions - How do you balance repertoire you are working on with warming up/cooling down so that you don’t hurt yourself but still get adequate time to work on whatever you need to? Do your practice sessions break down further (such as 5 minute warm up, 17 minutes of rep, 1 minute cool down)? How do you manage your practice sessions to get the most out of them while staying healthy chop wise?

Your morning swim was longer than my practice session before I watched this video.

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!

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.

Personally, Christian is the best trombonist in this world.

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?

How long have you engaged in this particular routine?

Do you recommend a 4cl or a 6.5 al mouthpiece for a tenor trombone? I love everything you do and keep up the great work!

Anyone know the songs used?

Hi Christian! What excercises are you doing in the 20 minute workouts? Greetings from Spain! We had dinner together a few years ago.

Thank you for the look into your life equally interesting as motivating. I am curious are you able to keep this strict a regiment when adding personal relationships such as a wife.

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

Wow, this is very awesome! I think to much workout for me😂 but with that House the bath in the Ocean and in the pool is obligatory. I Think the routine is a little bit fragmented for me. I want to share you the routine that I try to do every day but without much persistente😅: I am a violinist and i’m studying in a conservatory so I wake up at 6.30 am, i go running and after i do a shower. After I have breakfast and when the conservatory open at 8.00 am i go practice for 1 half hour(only for scaes and arpeggios)…after sometimes i have some lessons and i usually finish the School day at 17.00 (clarely with launch break and some practice session alone) after i go to the gym and i workout for 1/1.30 hrs. After the 18 i usually don’t study because i make the dinner and watch some films or ski race (I love skiing). I go to bed at 22.30/23 with some reading session before. I am Italian so my English is not so good but i’d like to do an Erasmus experience so i have to improve my english. Thanks for have read the comment, i hope u like it🙂.

Is it good swimming in cold water? Why?

18:00 Czardas 👍

What was the piece you were playing at 7:51 in your Daily Routine?

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)

How can you fit a lot of efficient practice in only 24 minutes? I usually take about half that time to warm up

When does he bathe? (besides the 1 minute shower in the morning)

You're so cool 😎

WOW

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 also Love to play trombone and Drink good vine from Austria ( "Grüner Veltliner, Zweigelt, Blaufränkisch......"🍷🇦🇹❤🎶🎼🎵) LG from Austria 😁😂🤣

You seem to be really fit. Even more so than my PE “coaches.”

Maestro, I really wish I could talk to you about my music composition project which is heavily infuenced by Rembrandt and Shakespeare and yes very much inspired by You...I truly believe that you would find it most fascinating (I hope I hope)...and that you might also be heartened by the fact that a Frank Sinatra Impersonator considers You his most important Performance Touchstone...

When do you conduct? When do you preform?