7 Things NOBODY Tells You About Trombone - A beginner's guide

A look at seven unique things about the trombone that most people don't know.

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  • @MrDanielRabin
    @MrDanielRabin4 жыл бұрын

    I learnt something!!! Except I don’t understand anything I just learnt

  • @thebuildersguild844

    @thebuildersguild844

    Жыл бұрын

    Me with my band director

  • @jackx4311
    @jackx43112 жыл бұрын

    Here's an eighth, mate - if you join a British-style brass band, and play tenor trombone, ALL your music is written in treble clef (unless it was a pig-awkward piece written and arranged by some pig-awkward bloke, who hated musicians, about 90 years ago). The only time you need bass clef in our bands is if you play bass trombone - but, in a British brass band, ALL bass trombone music is in bass clef. And here's a weird bit of additional info; in a Brit brass band, all music (apart from bass trombone stuff) is in treble clef - even for Eb and Bb basses (tubas) - and it's all written for transposing instruments, so Bb on 1st position is written as C on the music. But, because all the scores - apart from bass trombone - are written the same way, in one of our bands you can switch from cornet to flugel to tenor horn to baritone horn to Eb bass to Bb bass - and you read the music in exactly the same way. So, if you see an E on the bottom line, regardless of which valved instrument you're playing, that's valves 1 & 2. What's that in concert pitch? Dunno, mate - and who cares? If you play it with valves 1 & 2, it works! As for learning THREE clefs - sheeesh!! Life's too short! Keep yer pecker up :))

  • @KyleRaftery

    @KyleRaftery

    2 жыл бұрын

    This wins as the greatest comment I have ever received.

  • @jackx4311

    @jackx4311

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@KyleRaftery - cheers, mate!

  • @matt-dw
    @matt-dw Жыл бұрын

    Professional trombonists actually need to be able to play in all four (treble, alto, tenor and bass) clefs, and it can be quite useful to be able to play in concert pitch treble as well!

  • @leechjim8023

    @leechjim8023

    9 күн бұрын

    Wutif the b- turns out to beeeee c+!😂🤣😂🤣

  • @leechjim8023

    @leechjim8023

    9 күн бұрын

    Forget the glissendo, how bout the CRESCENDO!!!😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫🙃🙃

  • @leechjim8023

    @leechjim8023

    9 күн бұрын

    You really need to just spin some old Tommy Dorsey 78's and just play along😅😅😅 You know, the music goes round and comes out here!!!

  • @MJ-jm6fq
    @MJ-jm6fq3 жыл бұрын

    these videos are gold

  • @lindsaygibson2142
    @lindsaygibson214211 ай бұрын

    1:47 just to clarify, you have the exact same short comings on a valved brass instrument, but you are fixed to a certain length of tubing when you push a valve down. You can adjust the pitch to be more in tune by adjusting embrochure (your lips), or, if available to your instrument, triggers that adjust tuning slides on the valves. Also, just because the note you are playing is in tune acording to a tuner, doesn't mean that it's in tune given the context of the chord you are playing, or the muscians you are playing with.

  • @ruudh7037
    @ruudh7037 Жыл бұрын

    fantastic how bring humor in your lessons great job

  • @AKAFT
    @AKAFT9 ай бұрын

    Thank you for the video! Alternate positions on the trombone may also have slightly different tonal qualities. For example, the F3 in 1st position is brighter and heavier than the F3 in sixth position which has a more mellow and more nasal quality. Also if sliding from one note to another using the same embouchure position, you can "fake" a lip slur by a light tonguing.

  • @jamessmith5666
    @jamessmith5666 Жыл бұрын

    I’ve been playing just over a year now and I didn’t know you could play the same note in 3 positions! I knew of 2, but 3? Madness!

  • @grantnitschke9794
    @grantnitschke9794 Жыл бұрын

    At 71 y.o, I am now starting to learn trombone (I purchased a second-hand peashooter for a good price). Having played French horn at amateur level for almost thirty years, I at least have an understanding about all of the alternate positions (horn has even more than three on some notes, let alone also being able to play four consecutive whole notes without changing the valves, only the embourchure). So here goes.

  • @rektmillionaire
    @rektmillionaire Жыл бұрын

    Man you are amazing

  • @stahlecker-1
    @stahlecker-1 Жыл бұрын

    Another tip to help with the slightly different slide position is to listen to the note played and adjust to corners of your mouth to bring it in tune. Bring the corners of your mouth down, frown, if the note is sharp, and bring the corners of your mouth up, smile, if the note is flat. It's quicker and easier to adjust your embouchure than a slide position.

  • @spookety902

    @spookety902

    Жыл бұрын

    this is not something you want to do. you would sound a lot better by moving your mouth as little as possible and instead get the muscle memory down of where the slide is in tune. you will sound better by adjusting the slide based on pitch than by changing your embouchure

  • @lindsaygibson2142

    @lindsaygibson2142

    11 ай бұрын

    This sounds more like something who comes from a valved brass instrument first would do. As the previous person says, ~99% of the time, you want to adjust slide position instead (exception is 1st position sitting flat, as you can't sharpen the note)

  • @15ironreaver
    @15ironreaver Жыл бұрын

    I used to play in orchestra. I had first part and our rep was Tchaikovsky Symphony 4 Finale which was in bass clef. Then Brahm Academic Festival Overture in Tenor clef. Then Wagner Prelude to Lohengrin in Alto clef. Definitely interesting. Never played a treble clef part.

  • @calogiga
    @calogiga2 жыл бұрын

    I'm in the challenge to learn the trombone, now that I'm 51 year's old (I'm already musician with knowledge of guitar and trumpet). But I've just one problem to fight again : I'm definitively not able to read the bass clef, but I'm confortable with the treble clef. So, with the help of Musescore, I've created my own chart with all the notes figured out in treble clef... And that's OK : I've begon my journey on the trombone learning, reading all scores present in my house that are in treble clef...

  • @KyleRaftery

    @KyleRaftery

    2 жыл бұрын

    Ah, I sympathise. As a trumpet player the notes are just all wrong. I still have trouble reading bass clef somedays.

  • @accage2131

    @accage2131

    Жыл бұрын

    stay with it, I started learning trombone at 63 yrs, still enjoying it six years later

  • @captainstuds680
    @captainstuds680 Жыл бұрын

    I started in 4th grade and im in 7th and its by far the best instrument. ;)

  • @trevorcoltman8759
    @trevorcoltman8759 Жыл бұрын

    Playing tenor trombone in bass clef is my next challenge. How much difference an F key makes is the current quandary? Nice presentation ta from North Yorkshire!

  • @johnlye
    @johnlye Жыл бұрын

    Wow. That was interesting. I play the trumpet and can just play the scale on the trombone. I have always loved brass instruments and now I have more respect for the trombone.

  • @owenweaver3071
    @owenweaver3071 Жыл бұрын

    In my band class we play that Timmy trumpet Trombone for football games

  • @leechjim8023
    @leechjim80239 күн бұрын

    Oh no!! A limey!😮😂🤣😂🤣

  • @marcmoens8308
    @marcmoens8308 Жыл бұрын

    Hello and thanks for the videos,but you do not prononce the f from clé,

  • @PaulTheSkeptic
    @PaulTheSkeptic Жыл бұрын

    I've played guitar and like bass and drums and stuff for a long time. I'm pretty... I don't want to call myself good or anything but I'm pretty good. I found a bone at a thrift store and I thought of all the cool things I could do with it if I could learn to play it. So I bought it. It feels so strange starting from square one. Like, really beginner stuff. It's incredibly challenging but fun. Any words of wisdom are welcome. Advice or warnings. The oil stuff that came with it, I suppose that goes between the slidey bits? Anything else I need to know?

  • @coffeegrinder6319

    @coffeegrinder6319

    Жыл бұрын

    Yes just a drop of slide oil on the top and on the bottom inner slide when just beginning,. Move the slide up and down a few times to get a good coating. Ive play trombone 42 years ago, and am just starting again. Just search you tube about buzzing in mouthpiece and air control. After about a year, you should learn how to carefully use a trombone cleaning rod, and lubricating the proper way with slide cream, and water spritz bottle. Careful not to poke the rod thru the end of the out slide and make a hole LOL. Lots of good videos on you tube how to do that. Also clean your mouthpiece often because of the germs and it could get smelly

  • @spiderdude5148
    @spiderdude51482 жыл бұрын

    I've been playing for only a year

  • @sarco64
    @sarco643 жыл бұрын

    Good boys do fine always. All cows eat grass.

  • @spiderdude5148
    @spiderdude51482 жыл бұрын

    F is first position high Bb is first

  • @accage2131

    @accage2131

    Жыл бұрын

    high Bb is also played in 5th position

  • @amonooquagraine
    @amonooquagraine Жыл бұрын

    Hello Kyle I want you to be my teacher

  • @bigschwiggy
    @bigschwiggy Жыл бұрын

    Don't forget alto cleff.

  • @KyleRaftery

    @KyleRaftery

    Жыл бұрын

    I like to ignore alto clef every single day :)

  • @bigschwiggy

    @bigschwiggy

    Жыл бұрын

    I mean you're not wrong.

  • @angelicamartacahyaningtyas9083

    @angelicamartacahyaningtyas9083

    Жыл бұрын

    To me, alto clef is a bit easier than tenor. Maybe because I used to read strings (viola is always there 😬). Tenor clef gives me headache since the note position is similar to treble clef, and visually the clef position doesn't look balanced on the staff - like it can fall down anytime 🥴