Just Starting
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Just Starting
I have just started playing trombone, what should I do first?
- BGuttman
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Re: Just Starting
I would start by learning that you aren't performing yet; you are learning.
Next I would figure out how to make a sound on the trombone. Then refine it so you don't attract so many mooses.
Next I would figure out how to make a sound on the trombone. Then refine it so you don't attract so many mooses.
Bruce Guttman
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Re: Just Starting
Take some lessons from a competent trombone teacher.
- ghmerrill
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Re: Just Starting
Also maybe learn to clean it without damaging it. It's a journey -- and be always of the moose.
Gary Merrill
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Re: Just Starting
I have no idea what "be always of the moose" means.
“All musicians are subconsciously mathematicians.”
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Re: Just Starting
There is a fraternity of the Moose like there is a fraternity of the Elk. But they all do not play trombone.
If you have a lousy tone you can sound like a wounded moose on the trombone. Not pleasant.
If you have a lousy tone you can sound like a wounded moose on the trombone. Not pleasant.
Bruce Guttman
Merrimack Valley Philharmonic Orchestra
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Re: Just Starting
Somehow a word got left out. It was supposed to be "Be always aware of the moose."
Examples: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2thxtUzAtVk
These are (at least generally) sounds that you don't want to make with your trombone.
Gary Merrill
Amati Oval Euph
1924 Buescher 3-valve Eb tuba
Schiller American Heritage 7B clone bass trombone
M/K nickel MV50 leadpipe
DE LB K/K8/110 Lexan
1947 Olds "Standard" trombone (Bach 12c)
Amati Oval Euph
1924 Buescher 3-valve Eb tuba
Schiller American Heritage 7B clone bass trombone
M/K nickel MV50 leadpipe
DE LB K/K8/110 Lexan
1947 Olds "Standard" trombone (Bach 12c)