double trigger bass trombone position chart

#DOUBLE TRIGGER BASS TROMBONE POSITION CHART SERIES#

Also, they tend to play instruments that have big, wide-open slots, so it's harder for them to feel when they are in the best part of the sound. More importantly, I find that many of the young players I teach who have deeply ingrained habits of switching between valves a lot do NOT have great habits of accurate slide placement, and therefore have questionable intonation. The modern rotary, Thayer, Hagmann, TruBore, etc, valves available now are much smoother in transitions and much more even in sound and response than what was commonly available only about 3 decades ago. Not sure how old you are, but Thayer valves were not that common when I was first learning bass trombone, and the instrument of choice for most was a Bach 50B3, which typically has pretty clunky valves. I wasn't exactly taught NOT to do that, but it's very rare that I do. Hopefully my question makes sense, and I described the exercise well. Was my teacher unique in that opinion? Have times changed since I stopped playing years ago? Though it was fine to swap from one trigger to both and back, and from the open horn to any combination. My instructor back in high school told me that one should not play this way, swapping directly from the F to Gb trigger or the other way around. The exercise then continues the same pattern in each slide position, to a 5 total patterns (since you can't go further with 2 triggers), with the last starting on pedal Bb in flat 7th, Bb-Db-D-Db-Bb-Gb). What struck me as different is that it switches between each of the triggers directly: 2T-T1-T2-T1-2T-open (for example, the progression in first position is D-F-Gb-F-D-Bb repeating 3x).

#DOUBLE TRIGGER BASS TROMBONE POSITION CHART SERIES#

It swaps between each of the valve combinations at a given slide position in a running series of 8th notes - no rests in between.

It's an exercise that seems specially made for the type of horn that I have. However, I ran across one exercise that gave me pause. Through the years, I misplaced my books and such from when I used to play in high school and college, so I bought a beginner trombone book, and found some good (legally free) warmup exercises online to get myself back in shape. I recently picked up my bass trombone (2 trigger independent Bb/F/Gb/D) and started playing again after a long break. I like the answers there, I'm just looking for more opinions.** **This is cross-posted on Reddit, I apologize in advance for the spam or if that isn't OK. My first post here, been lurking from time to time.

Double trigger bass trombone position chart