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Showing posts with label Trombone. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Trombone. Show all posts
Thursday, November 15, 2018
CONTRABASS TROMBONE - Music Instruments of the World
Friday, October 20, 2017
TRUMPET and TROMBONE High Notes
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r that has heard an album or a live performance by one of the giants of our instrument and been totally amazed at how they possess a complete command of the instrument?Such giants as Maynard Ferguson, Wayne Bergeron, Bill Watrous, Slide Hampton? It's not that these individuals were born with great skills and never had to practice, yet more over, they were driven by the desire to play. Along with that desire comes support. Support from family, friends, peers, and authority figures such as band directors.
What is essential for all beginning players young and old is a strong support system. Family, friends and teachers must all rally around the student to help them believe in themselves and in what they're doing! Statements such as... ya, ya, that's good but can you do that somewhere else is not exactly a supportive frame of mind.
If you could go back in time and interview the greatest players, you would find that they were strongly supported by family and cohorts. Maynard Ferguson is a prime example of this! His parents were both school principals in Montreal Quebec Canada, and as he and his brother Percy were growing up, they were strongly supported in everything they did. Whether it was sports or music, they were rallying to their kids support.
As Maynard grew into his early teen years and showed a knack for trumpet playing, his parents nourished this talent by not only buying him the recordings, but taking him to the performances that came through. From Duke Ellington
to Dizzy Gillespie, they were there.
to Dizzy Gillespie, they were there.
The next thing a young player needs is the right tools. Teachers who don't really know what they're teaching can be a serious detriment to a young player and his growth. The right approach and the right books as well as specific instruction on how to perform each exercise is vital!
If you are a player who did not exactly experience either of the above, it's not too late. Trumpet players are most likely looking for that Maynard type range and power. The high notes that make the audience just sit back in total amazement and wonder - does that hurt? Is that some freak trick?
High notes are nothing more than just really fast air being forced through a very small hole. NOT large volumes of air, but rather extremely compressed air moving rapidly through a small hole between your lips.
Sounds easy, doesn't it? It is once you gain the right concept.
Tuesday, June 27, 2017
Monday, June 26, 2017
Do You Want to Learn the TROMBONE?
The trombone is a member of the brass family and the horn and come in different sizes. The most common ones are the medium sized or tenor trombone and larger sized or bass trombone which are both pitched in Bb. They produce heavy sounds which are lower than the trumpet and are used when the orchestra is playing loud sections or in harmony with the higher horn and trumpet parts.
Trombones have a cylindrical shaped tube and a cup shaped mouthpiece and are related to the trumpets. But instead of valves which a trumpet has, a trombone has a moveable slide which moves in and out. A player will stop the slide at any of the seven positions to get the range of notes available to produce. At any of the positions a series of notes can be produced by tightening or slackening his lips. The notes produced are a series of natural notes called harmonics. When the slide is pulled out completely, the range of notes which can be produced will extend downwards for six semitones.
Like other brass instruments, the sound of the trombone is produced by blowing air through pursed lips producing a vibration that creates a standing wave in the instrument. When the player moves the slide out it extends the length of the air column and lowers the pitch.
Trombones are played in a variety of situations like orchestras, military bands, jazz bands, dance bands eg the big band.. <br>Orchestras generally have two tenors and one bass trombone. The other groups having varying numbers of trombone players.
Let's take a look at two well known trombone players. <br>1. Slide Hampton (Locksley Wellington "Slide" Hampton ) was a famous American trombonist, composer and arranger who played all around Europe after he was in his dad's band, named Hampton's Band. He toured with them a lot and is probably the best role model for starting trombonists. Slide Hampton was born in 1932.
2.Tommy Dorsey ( Thomas Francis Dorsey ) was a great American jazz trombone player as well as a trumpeter, composer, and bandleader of the Big Band era. He had a smooth-toned trombone playing style and was known as "The Sentimental Gentleman of Swing". He is famous for The Spell of the Blues and The Boogie Woogie. Tommy Dorsey was born <br>November 19, 1905 and died November 26, 1956.
You now know that the trombone is a brass instrument of varying sizes and can be played in a variety of situations. You have been given examples of two well know trombonists which could look up on YouTube and see if the sound tantalises your taste buds. Then you need to make the final decision; Do you want to learn the trombone?
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