Beginner trombone position chart4/11/2024 Forget about 7th, you don't need itĭoug - sorry for my deficiency of the sense of humor if it applies here. Nobody really knows where 5th is and 6th is almost all the way out. But too many people who never get beyond amateur enthusiasm never move beyond scales and when they get to a gig where there are other patterns in the music besides scales (almost every gig) they end up finding a big hill to climb. The point is to force you to deal with novel patterns which will force you to really learn the instrument's layout instead of relying on a few patterns that won't help you in all circumstances.ĭon't get me wrong: scales and arpeggios are useful, too. I'd argue that this actually reflects a downside of using valves.Īs for sight-reading, if you aren't comfortable with that, the ear-based equivalent would be to go to a whole bunch of recordings and just imitate tons of melodies. Valves are discrete approximations for what the slide gives us. As trombonists, we can play perfectly in tune without messing with tuning slides or tiring our face. I often only use a score to memorise a theme and then play it by memory. Honestly saying, not a sight reader at all. Besides, I should confess - I'm not a good sight reader. Regarding sight reading: I feel that it will destract me from getting used to the instrument in the beginning if you know what I mean. Thanks for the tip on sliding and not lipping! I guess I should watch that carefully when coming from trumpet. Tone should be centered and beautiful at all times, and trying to lip notes around when you don't need to just makes things a lot harder. Thus, sight-reading, perhaps with a slide position chart handy for the times when the brain backfires.Īnd - this is very important - get used to using the slide to tweak notes into tune and not your embouchure. Scales are useful, but you only really learn the scale patterns if that's all you do. If you already have a background on other instruments, I think the best thing to do is a lot of sight-reading. Please help me with my question possibly from your "retrospective perspective" (hope this sounds right in English) and without 'Get a teacher' cliche. I perfectly understand that playing trombone in tune is a life-time perseverance. However that's a far goal and at the moment when just starting out I need to move the slide into correct position and hear the right note in terms of intonation. My intention is a general Jazz/Pop style, with simple impros on top. Maybe start from the most common and "useful" (for a trombone beginner) scales along with some simple melodious etudes/simple Evergreen heads? It could work well for trumpet (and it did for me) but I feel that trombone needs some different and more melodic-diatonic approach. I was thinking about what would be the best approach and I figure that the chromatic scale is not it. I know basic fundamental brass techniques so all I need to get started on trombone is a good steady approach method to moving the slide in a logical way and getting used to the intonation corrections. Since I'm an adult amateur trumept-sax-clarinet-guitar-piano-violin-you_name_it "player" I know my scales, arps, etc. That's of course nonsense that I requested in the thread subject but please can you help me with identifying a basic method of navigating the trombone?
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