How do you play the trombone

Trombonist Simon Gunton demonstrates how you play the trombone (from www.soundjunction.org)

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Music

Tags:

• trombone
• slide
• lesson
• music
• glissando

[soulelemanator]

you puffed your cheaks you shouldn't do that

[carcrazy25Onx]

WOW! This makes it a whole lot easier for me to play trombone now. All I have to do is think about what valves to press on my trumpet!

[jasmineseowhuiwen]

I'm in secondary school and I want to know how to play the trombone since I'm going to play it soon after I start my CCA. Any tips? How do I blow properly? What is the correct position to hold the trombone?

[EpicPhalure]

@TheK0rnbeef If you're a trombone player, it's quite simple. If you want to go from an E natural (2nd position) to an E flat, just go to 3rd position.

The difference between these two notes is called a "half step." When a note is flat, it's played one half step down from the natural note. So a G natural (4th position), when it is marked Gflat is now 5th position.

[TheK0rnbeef]

I don't understand how flats work, could someone please answer?

[APinhert]

so playing a trombone is the same as whistling in terms of intuitiveness for beginners? you just have to know your highest note and your lowest note and your set, except more work is required if you have to get great at it, right?

[lgeklsflz]

the owner of the white sudan... you left your lights on...

[JEWLZPAG]

good........hes good!

[Carnivalcarl]

@soulelemanator embouchure and cheek puffing is up to the person playing the instrument. Louis Armstrong puffed his cheeks.If that feels right for you to play, its how you should play. Its really such a minor thing to get caught up on, nit picking like that can really take the fun out of music for beginners. Too many 'professional' musicians get preachy about perfect form, nit picking posture and hand position... its a load of crap. Music isn't what notes you play, but the spaces between them.

[TMBALAND319]

thanks, this really helped me get the basic(especially switching from euphonium to a trombone), thanks a million

[notyourplanet]

@soulelemanator Who cares? The guy makes a great sound!

[tekcomputers]

@zenious1 Along the various fundamentals low to high, E, B, E, Ab, B, E

There are lot of notes which have alternate slide positions in different fundamentals, knowing those alternate positions can be useful in speeding up playing of certain passages. For example, it's easier to play a high-D in 4th position up one fundamental around notes played in third, than to set the slide back to first simply to play that D. Or play an middle F in sixth when progressing from low F (which is also 6th)