Learning Bass Trombone
13:29 on Thursday, November 15, 2007
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Re: Learning Bass Trombone
13:48 on Thursday, November 15, 2007
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Re: Learning Bass Trombone
09:52 on Sunday, November 18, 2007
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Re: Learning Bass Trombone
16:49 on Saturday, December 1, 2007
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Re: Learning Bass Trombone
14:12 on Saturday, December 8, 2007
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ComradeWieben (4 points)
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I just started playing Bass Trombone this year as my primary instrument at the University. I had played trombone and tuba before, but the bass trombone is unlike anything else. It will take an outrageous amount of air to play it properly, I have personally equated it to the amount of arr required to play a trash can. If you don't use enough air your sound will be weak and thin, exactly the opposite of what a good bass bone (especailly jazz bass bone) would be.
To get yourself comfortable in the lower range start at about F in the middle range and work your way down chromatically playing two full rich quarter notes of each pitch, taking a two count rest, and continuing on down as low as you can go and then a little farther. If you do this religiously you will be amazed at how quickly this will extend your lower range.
And as others have mentioned, intonation is going to kill you on a bass trombone. Sit next to a piano and tune every one of your notes below Bb in the staff, those will be the hardest. If you have a big mouthpiece like I do it will make you flat on just about everything above F in your mid range, so tune each note.
Talk to someone who is good at trombone to get good positions for notes with triggers, keep in mind that when you use one or both of the triggers you have to add on about one position to where you would logically think the note would be. For example, a Eb below the staff is best played with the F trigger and about 4th (rather than 3rd) position.
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Re: Learning Bass Trombone
13:08 on Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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Re: Learning Bass Trombone
13:54 on Wednesday, March 19, 2008
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