Hey how's it goin. If u would could u say ur name, where yur from, what u play, and what styles

sorry for the double post but i forgot sometin in the first post:


Zach
Winchester, V.A.
Trombone,Bass,Tuba
Jazz,Funk(oh yeah), and I play in marching bands

Megan
South Carolina
Trombone,baritone, & tuba

jazz,classical,r&b,..pretty much all kinds..marching band

Sooooo. U no all yur scales? Chromatic?

I kno most of my scales...and chromatic is soooo easy on t-bone!!what abt u?

if the chromatic scale is so easy...
Why is it that so many young players (and many older ones unfortunately) play it out of tune?
I suspect a few reasons...
1) they think of the chromatic scale as a slide pattern, not really paying attention to the notes (and partials, and pitch tendencies of those partials, etc)
2) a half step is actually one of the hardest intervals to tune for many people
3) as they ascend out of the comfortable range, they tend to tense up and pitch gets squirrely
4) because they think in slide patterns, then tend to think more in terms of 7-6-5-4-3-2-1-5-4-3-2-1-etc instead of actually LISTENING to what they are playing.
now..that being said
get a tuner out... tune your low Bb... close your eyes, play a chromatic scale (two octaves if possible) and then open your eyes, and see what you see.
try it again, this time stopping anywhere other than the Bb.. see where you land.
try it again, starting on a note other then Bb. then another. try Eb or F#, notes that then to be out tune in the upper octaves and require adjustment in the first place.
Do you still think the chromatic scale is easy? be honest.
are you playing it in good time? using a metronome? or are you slowing down as you go higher and speeding up as you come down? is there a consistency between each note? note length, volume, cut off, attack?
do you still think it's easy?
if so, maybe i should arrange to take some lessons with ya

^^^Exactly. how many octaves? It should be three! Not easy to do clean (we're talking MM=120, sixtenth notes)

it should be three octaves if your range allows it. but i hesitate to make that statement because some kid's gonna go back to the practice room feeling like he should be able to play 3 octaves when he/she is not ready to do so... and will do more harm than good by trying.
as far as speed... it should be played as fast as it can be played right. no faster. you have to be careful what you say on these forums... you never know who's reading.

I know, you're right. I usually say that as motivation.

two octaves should be a norm, as most college auditions may require that

Yeah but the chromatic scale is just use less i mean u have to play it for auditions and stuff but it's just so easy, and all it is is all the notes on the horn kinda basic stuff if u ask me.

Yeah but the chromatic scale is just use less i mean u have to play it for auditions and stuff but it's just so easy, and all it is is all the notes on the horn kinda basic stuff if u ask me.

Yeah but the chromatic scale is just use less i mean u have to play it for auditions and stuff but it's just so easy, and all it is is all the notes on the horn kinda basic stuff if u ask me.

I'm sorry for all those same post in a row i clicked the post button alot lol

I'm sorry you feel that way. Chromatics creep up in tons of literature out there, and I would hardly call it useless.
Check out "The Green Bee" by Urbie Green for a great example of chromatics in action.
I've already hijacked this thread enough,so i'll drop the subject, but please do reconsider my prior post. Most young players think chromatic scales are so easy, but they just don't play them as well as they like to think they do. Record yourself. Break out the tuner. Open your ears. Do some soul searching. Is your tuning really that good? your time? Anyway, if you're that good, more power to you. But if i've learned nothing else in all the years i've played trombone, the better I get , the more I realize i have to learn.

Josh
Roxbury, New Jersey
Trombone, voice
concert, marching, and jazz ensemble.