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Mouthpiece Buzzing | Trombonetools
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Tools to help you achieve peak performance. Lesson Guidelines for Students. Posture vs. Balance. Resumes, CVs and Bios. Mouthpiece buzzing can be a useful practice tool. I like using it to cultivate resonance of tone, for smoothness of phrasing and for improving accuracy. Of course, if you are traveling without your instrument, it can be helpful to take your mouthpiece along just to keep your chops in shape. Books by David Vining. The Big Book of Sight Reading Duets. Cross Training for Musicians.
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Endurance | Trombonetools
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Tools to help you achieve peak performance. Lesson Guidelines for Students. Posture vs. Balance. Resumes, CVs and Bios. Good endurance depends upon good breath support. If your air flow is inadequate, your muscles will have to take up the slack by working harder and this is the last thing you want. Here are some specific strategies to help you improve endurance:. 1 Keep a practice journal. Note how long you play each day and track what you are playing. Are you doing a daily routine every day? Be specific...
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Flexibility | Trombonetools
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Tools to help you achieve peak performance. Lesson Guidelines for Students. Posture vs. Balance. Resumes, CVs and Bios. Like endurance, flexibility will only improve with regular practice over time. When practicing lip slurs, always use a metronome and strive for equally spaced notes –. Another challenging way to practice lip slurs is to begin with a descending pattern, like this:. Finally, here is a pattern with lip slurs combined with tonguing:. Here are some resources to practice flexibility:. Books b...
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Intonation | Trombonetools
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Tools to help you achieve peak performance. Lesson Guidelines for Students. Posture vs. Balance. Resumes, CVs and Bios. So much of intonation is dependent upon your ability to hear discrete differences in your sound as you play. Recording yourself is an invaluable tool for improving intonation and I recommend a high quality digital recording device – here’s one that won’t break the bank but provides nice digital sound quality: Tascam digital recorde. 2 Record yourself every day using a high quality digit...
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Articulation | Trombonetools
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Tools to help you achieve peak performance. Lesson Guidelines for Students. Posture vs. Balance. Resumes, CVs and Bios. The most common articulation problems I encounter are students who use too much tongue or too heavy of a tongue and students who clip the ends of notes off too abruptly. Here is a sound file featuring some multiple tonguing:. David Vining plays ”Special ” by Gabaye. Dadadada gagagaga dadadada gagagaga. Try this pattern as well:. Dagadagadagadaga, etc…. Here are some resources to practic...
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Natural Slurs | Trombonetools
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Tools to help you achieve peak performance. Lesson Guidelines for Students. Posture vs. Balance. Resumes, CVs and Bios. Natural slurs create a smooth vocal quality to the phrasing and are an important tool for all trombonists. If two adjoining notes are in different partials in a slurred passage, it is not necessary to tongue the second note because the partial break removes the smear. I recommend these tools for practicing natural slurs:. By Marco Bordogni, arranged by Johannes Rochut. I am always grate...
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Hesitant Entrances | Trombonetools
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Tools to help you achieve peak performance. Lesson Guidelines for Students. Posture vs. Balance. Resumes, CVs and Bios. Hesitant entrances (some people call it “locking up”) are fairly common among trombonists; if you have struggled with this issue, you are not alone. Fixing this problem as soon as it arises is important because a hesitation can evolve into something far more serious if left untreated. 1 Blow no tongue and no sound – “circular blowing”. I call this step “circular blowing” bec...Repeat th...
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Using Rangesongs | rangesongs
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Helping brass players improve range and endurance. Rangesongs for Trombone: Tenor and Bass. Rangesongs for Euphonium: Bass Clef and Treble Clef. Develops your high and low ranges by using target notes in a musical context to encourage you to move your air properly. For high notes, use intense, fast moving air, and for low notes use a generous amount of slow moving air. For the high range. Improves your range and endurance systematically. The high range portion of. Is organized progressively by target not...
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Rangesongs for Trumpet | rangesongs
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Helping brass players improve range and endurance. Rangesongs for Trombone: Tenor and Bass. Rangesongs for Euphonium: Bass Clef and Treble Clef. By David Vining, edited by Cindy Gould, is appropriate for trumpet players at all levels. 82 pages, spiral bound to lay flat on any music stand. Download a product sample. Here is the range covered in. Vince DiMartno, Professor Emeritus, Centre College, Past President, International Trumpet Guild. Trombonist David Vining is the founder and co-owner of Mountain P...
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Rangesongs for Tuba | rangesongs
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Helping brass players improve range and endurance. Rangesongs for Trombone: Tenor and Bass. Rangesongs for Euphonium: Bass Clef and Treble Clef. By David Vining, is appropriate for tuba players at all levels. Spiral bound to lay flat on any music stand. Download a product sample. Here is the range covered in. Cross Training for Musicians. To name a few. Currently Professor of Trombone at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona, Mr. Vining has also served on the faculties of the University o...
