Trombone slide position note chart how to#

Also has the positions for if you have the F trigger on your horn: I like the one that he lists all the notes for the same position vertically, but choose the version that makes sense to you.

Doug Yeo has slide position charts (by other authors) on his site.

Record one duet part on your euphonium, and then play along with yourself on trombone. This is social and motivates you to tune your slide positions. You can run through them when resting your chops or when you don't have a horn in your hand. Write the music notation (nice and big) on the front of a 3X5, and the position and note name on the back.

To help get note to position automatic, I also have my students work with flash cards: Make them yourself.

Otherwise, I would not get hung up on associating a valve combination with a slide position. That will help you get used to the same relationships but on slide.

Also, go through your regular warmup routine for euphonium like long tones and slurs but on trombone.

Working on octave exercises and such are also important to truly check with your ear.

When you get to positions like F above the staff or G above the staff, you might mark b1 (flat 1) or #2 (sharp 2) respectively to remember those positions are a bit lower or higher than the position of other notes.

For arpeggiated passages, I think the first alternative position that I really worked on first was playing D above the staff (usually 1st position) in the 4th position.

Hint 2 for trombone alternate positions.

Like a Db scale starting on Db in the staff, I would play that F in 6. If I have a F in the staff going to Gb, I try playing that F in 6 to see if that fits better for the overall passage. Try to keep notes a half-step apart on the same partial.

Hint 1 for trombone alternate positions.

But then memorize, so you are not dependent on the written positions. Good mental exercise to look at the notation and check the chart.

You can copy the scales and arpeggio pages and mark those up yourself.

Keeps the book pristine so after you have the positions down you can play the clean original music without position numbers. I like my students to photocopy the page that their working on and mark up that. To get started, you might write a couple of positions on your music as reminder, but you shouldn't need that beyond a week or so.You might speed through it, good, but some books have an intro on a new note and position and an exercise that focuses on that new note. Go ahead and get a typical beginner lesson book for trombone like Rubank's, and most have a slide position chart in the book, and lots of simple tunes for practice.

Trombone slide position note chart how to#

Now it may take much longer to be able to play the trombone appropriately and learn how to change notes without playing unwanted glissandos, learning how to deal with trills, speed, alternate positions for better speed or note connectivity, and other things. You can surely find a book or document that will list all the scales with trombone positions (simple google search did it for me just now), but I suggest to you to just learn the correlation and start playing the trombone using your euphonium music (and scales, etc.) and in very short time you will have the connection. Later on, the little nuances and tricks and other things worked themselves in, and it is always good to have a competent teacher show you these more advanced things. I simply learned the correlation between valves and slide positions, then went about playing things that I could play or knew on euphonium on the trombone. Pretty much these line up with the euphonium as well, although much harder to play a sharp 2nd valve than a sharp 2nd position. Of course there are many alternate positions you can play for notes (on both horns), and on the trombone there are things known as sharp 2nd position and other positions that can be played sharp or flat for alternate positions for notes. The trombone slide positions correspond to the euphonium valve selections, that is: I started on trumpet, switched to baritone/euphonium in 8th grade, and learned trombone many years later.