Hi! Not much has been happening on this forum, so I'm trying to get it going. So, how's tromboning going for you all? Any news?

--Dan

The trombone playing has been great! Just finished up a set with the Symphony that included Mahler 3, got some great reviews for it, and now we just got Messiaen's Turangalila Symphony. Looks massive, and sounds nice and big and spooky.

Fun stuff.

And the other symphony is doing The Berceuese and Finale from Stravinsky's Firebird, Tchaikovsky's Marche Slave, and The Planets. Lots of playing. Soooooo much fun!


On a side note, I just finished up giving my horn the Slide Dr. treatment, Using Wright's Brass Polish and SuperSlide slide treatment. Man, it's faster and smoother then ever. I don't recommend this unless you really know what you are doing with your slide and have a lot of time and patience. Took me almost and entire day, and I could have taken much longer.

http://www.slidedr.com/sickslide.htm
http://www.tromboneslide.com/index1.htm

I like the look of slidedr.com.

As you might have read on another thread, ''tromboning'' has been great for me lately : just played the Rimsky-Korsakov concerto at my college auditions and I was accepted. Also, we are in the most intense part of the year with my school concert band, we've just played in a festival at mid-march, we have an upcoming concert in two weeks, then two weeks later we'll be competing in a provincial band competition (10,000+ musicians). Plus, we are premiering a work by our director, and it has a trombone solo in it - I hope I won't miss it in front of 800 people (just kidding, I'm pretty confident).

So well, yeah music is going great now. Oh and I'm playing Sing Sing Sing with some friends for fun, which is a very nice experience since I don't often do that kind of music.

hey erik, our band played mahler's third this year too. i absolutly love his music. we just did the finale but our band made a perfect score on it at districts. we even got a standing ovation after it, and it wasn't even the end of our concert.

both our school's synphonic band jazz band and winter guar whent to state compotitions. our yearly band trip this year was to hawii where we played for a military memorial service at perl harbor.

For me, well i've had a succesfull year so far. i made fisrt chair in my school, and fourth chair in all county. in feburary i whent to the university of southern mississippi for the all-south honor band. right now i'm practicing as much as possible because i'll be a senor next year and i need to get petter for collage auditions. i'm curently working up an audition to go to LSU's summer band program. i hope to get a scalarship while i'm there.

Forgive my ignorance, but could you tell me what a "winter guar" is?

Same things that go on in any other band tour bus. And yes, it's in time.

Or as we say..
"what goes on on the road stays on the road"

"what goes on on the road stays on the road"

And sometimes spills into the hotel rooms.


Has it gone too far yet?

to answer the question about winter guard. it basicly has all of the best girls from our colar guard that preforms with the band at football games. they do coriagrafy and spin falgs and rifles like in colar guard but it's all inside, with less people, and more advanced.

I hate to break it to you, but I suspect he really didn't want to know what it was, he just wanted to point out your typo (and possibly to allude to your other spelling errors in the process.)
sad....

Wait, there were spelling errors in there? Really?

I'm sorry. I must admit that I failed to pick up on that spelling error. (Or at least the lack of the letter "d" on the end of "guard.") I didn't know what a winter guard was either, let alone a "winter guar." Maybe I should stop scrutinizing the posts of others and worry about my own. I mean, if I make a spelling or grammar error in one of my posts, I know I'll hear about it.

Tromboning has been going okay. I finally have time to practice now that our UIL Band Competition is over with.

I am having fun playing with a Tejano Band, and a variety rock-jazz-oldies band. Being in a small town for the past two years doesn't give me many opportunities, but I am the best trombone player available! AND THAT AIN'T SAYIN' MUCH!!!

This past weekend I actually played at a Chamber of Commerce Party in honor of the big ESPN Bassmaster Elite Series "Battle on the Border" at Lake Amistad.

Apparently Lake Amistad is "one of America's top Bass fisheries."

I helped entertain millions of dollars worth of professional and decorated fishermen.

I really miss being in the big city, though, and showing up somewhere and sitting in with Big Bands or Salsa Bands or just being able to pick up a gig when someone needs a bone player.

Thanks for listening!

-Raul