• Wilzax@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      You can slur any 2 notes on a trombone with good tonguing and a fast hand.

      On a trombone, you always tongue with “Ta” and “Ka” sounds for a good articulation, but when you slur with notes that have different positions you tongue with “Da” and “Ga” sounds instead. During the brief moment where your air isn’t moving you snap your hand to the next note’s position, and the result sounds similar to slurring between fingerings on a trumpet.

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        3 months ago

        What about those 4 and 0 over the Es? Do they make sense for trombone?

        Because for violin they look like fingering hints. You can make that E with either the 4th finger on the A string or with no fingers on the E strings. You can see the same 4s on my picture. I think my book wanted to use this piece to teach when to use the 4th finger and when the empty string.

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          3 months ago

          The trombone starts at 1st position (slide all the way in) in my experience, so yeah you’re probably right about the marks being for violin, where I presume 0 means open/no fingering?

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        3 months ago

        That totally works for legato, but if you are going for that “mwAAAAAAaaaaaa” it wouldn’t really work. I may be mixing up my notation though - am I thinking glissando?

        Also I know it’s common usage of “ta-ka” and “da-ga” but it reminds me of my trombone teacher who died in a car crash on the way to my lesson. Grant was awesome and the first teacher to tell me I was good at my horn. I miss him and think about him every time I warm up my horn.

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      3 months ago

      That’s not trombone, that sheet music is treble clef, trombones are bass clef.

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        I don’t see where the post shows treble clef. I’m still on the fence on the slurs, although I could be mixing up glissandos.

        You may be referring to the comment, but that wasn’t what I was referring to.