hey could i have a lil bit advice from some more older tboners who have had experience.i have a teacher but he is very slow hes teaching all the other instruments before the tbones. p.s dont put get a book please
thank you
jameson
hicks

Sure.

What type of advice are you looking for?

And by the way, we aren`t talking about your school music teacher, we are talking about a private trombone teacher. One on one work. By far the ONLY realistic way to teach, fix problems, and evolve into a musician without those pesky bad habits that will take years in college to get rid of. (Trust me, I wish I had taken the advice and gotten a private teacher when I was starting out.)

im looking for just some basic advice

get a private teacher....practice on peices you can`t play until you can play them right, just play a little above your playing skill, then move up when you got that down very well, a good series of books would be trombone gems by H.A. vandercook

There`s no such thing really as "basic advice". If you want specific advice, ask away. The only basic advice I can think of is always use lots of air and really pay attention to the quality of what is coming out of the bell.

That help?

well how about begginer advice justbasic stuff

keep your enboure (sp) in the same place, tune, possible buy a tuner and then find the notes and play the note, adjust your enboure and get it until your are playing the in general ventecy of the note, only like flat or sharp, git it to as close to perfect as you can and try playing it until you dont have to think about playing the note (thats when you have more than one note down) then play it with the best tone you can possibly get, but still.....getting a private teacher is still the best thing you can do though.

LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG tones. and then more LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG tones followed by more LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG tones.
you get the point. After playing for a while do more LOOOOONG tones dont worry about how high you can play that will come dont worry about how fast you can play that will come too. lastly and most important.......................................................................................................................................................have fun...lol you thaught i was going to say LOOOOONG tones huh.

Buy a tuner. And a metronome. Live by them.

And.....

Always think of great tone. Think of the most beautiful tone you can imagine, and portray that tone coming out of your bell.

One more....

Think of every note you play, whether it be one note in a high school marching band rehearsal, one note practicing alone, one note in your first college orchestra rehearsal, one note in your last gig with the New York Philharmonic, as the last note you will ever play in your life. Make em all perfect to the best of your ability and better than the last, and you`ll progress just fine.