Can anyone point me to a slide position chart that is valid for this instrument? Preferably a web resource.


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I recently picked up the soprano so a resource of this kind would be of great help to me as well.

Well, I really don`t know much about soprano trombone other than it`s also a trumpet with a slide, making it the same range and sound as a regular trumpet. If that is the case, the positions would be the same as tenor trombone, sounding an octave higher. Another way to look at it would be the similarities between tenor trombone slide positions and trumpet fingerings would be the same.

i.e:
1st position = open
2nd = 2nd valve
3rd = 1st valve
4th = valve 1 and 2 or 3
5th = 2 and 3
6th = 1 and 3
7th = 1,2 and 3

I couldn`t easily find a slide chart online though... so someone correct me if I am wrong.

Myself, I got my slide trumpet from my wife for christmas 2 years ago. The best thing I ever did was learn the treble clef . What I did to start was to take treble clef music and write the positions in after transposing them. (going from treble to bass is 5 half steps down on staff) After awhile of doing that, you`ll be able to play both clefs. The end positions for both are the same as what you`ve already learned with your tenor t-bone... i.e. Bb is the same position no matter what clef you play it in.

i agree with michael, except for when you get out past 5th position all the positions will be slightly flatter than you remember, but the best thing you can do is buy/borrow/beg/steal a tuner and use this to discover positions. play a piece with a tuner and you will quickly pick all the new positions up. easy, heh?
good luck
MicMac

I have a slide chart! it might be huge, but it does the job!

http://img530.imageshack.us/my.php?image=slidechart1dp.gif/

Oops. That link doesn`t work. Try this one.

http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/773/slidechart1dp.gif/

thats for tenor trombone...not soprano..i`ll look for one

They should be the same. So you can take a tenor trombone slide chart, convert the whole thing to treble clef, and there ya go. Right? Or would the written music be considered in Bb, like trumpet? I.E. instead of Bb in first as tuning note, it would be called C, but sounds like concert Bb.

That I don`t know...

soprano is written in a multitude of clefs(if anyone DOES right for sopranno that is).

MY suggestion is to sit down with a good tuner and figure it out. the positions are relative to teh trombone BUT they are much quirkier. so good luck

Ummmm the soprano clef has nothing to do with the instrument being called soprano. Soprano just means its higher pitched. The only thing that really uses soprano clef is a Viola. Soprano trombone can either transpose a trombone part up an octave, or you can read it treble from a trumpet. To convert treble into what you would see for bass clef, move any note on a space up 2 spaces , or if on a line move it up 2 lines and it will look like it should for bass clef. (and also add 2 flats to whatever the key signature is to make it bass)It`s also just like reading tenor clef. 3rd space on treble is a trumpet C which transposes to a trombone Bb. 3rd space on tenor clef reads as a B on tenor, but you move them up spaces and lines like you would treble. And waht he is talking about IS NOT A SLIDE TRUMPET. Slide trumpets were medieval instruments in which the bell moved back and forth, not the handslide. Most slide trumpets had a 4 note capacity to them. A soprano trombone has a moving handslide and stationary bell. The slide positions will all be relatively the same as a tenor trombone in relation to the bell. BUT i`m assuming you bought a Jupiter soprano for like 300 bucks. If you bought a Thein or Miraphone soprano and spent that kind of money on it, you`d know what you were doing with it before you ever shelled out that money. I bought the Jupiter just because i thought it was cool. It`s alright, but the slide became crap really fast.

I think he meant Soprano Trombone is written in multiple clefs, i.e. bass, tenor, alto, or treble. And violas don`t read soprano, (at least all the music I`ve seen) they read treble and alto.

As for what the instrument is called, you`re right, technically it is a Soprano Trombone, but today, people have grown accustomed to also calling it a slide trumpet. If you go to any music store and ask for a slide trumpet, this is what you will get.

one of my friends plays viola, he says he plays on tenor clef, but i`ve never heard of the sapranio clef before.