I believe in teaching Newtonian Physics before we go into Relativity and similarly going from 7 positions to adjusted positions for intonation. These are things that can hobble a beginner who will devolve into "paralysis by analysis" trying to figure out all these minutiae. I read an article in The Instrumentalist from some 60 years ago talking about the trombone having 51 positions (without F-attachment!) and he was only considering the range from to flat. I don't think most beginning trombone players are savvy enough to figure the mathematical minutiae of tenths of a position. Sharp 2 or short 2 is much more appropriate. Tends to imply that the slide should be farther out. I also don't like calling the position for G "2+". But he never says where the boundaries are - probably because the transition from one to the next needs to be gradual. Then there is Alan Raph and his 5 syllables for different ranges. Jerry Callet used to rail about this in his master classes He used to demonstrate a French "Ta" and it was very different from English (or Swedish, for that matter). ![]() ![]() Arban was writing a book for French speakers and his syllables were really intended for French. (PS as Tom Malone are writing about tones in the higher range he is trying to be as exact as possible, as 11th partial Eb 1.5, 13th partial F# 1.4.)įor years I was subjected to the Ta (and Ka) syllables as taught by Arban. You can probably find more stuff to talk about missunderstanding and missconceptions on? The important thing is how it sounds, I have hundreds of book about brass playing in my hous, not looking in the much anymore, but I know there are many more way to descibe tonguing. TAW TUH TIH TEE for staccato.Įach sylleble can of be said lots of different ways. Body Baker (tenor trombone method) use DEE THA THAW THU an DOO for tonguing advice. (Just that is used a lot for many years in Eroupe ,just add the tongue for the attack). Staying with this books, about using vocal sounds, Syllebels to describe the formation of the mouth cavity ,Rich Willy recomend particing "HOOO" in many studies for no tongue practice. Confusing? Well not for an X teacher, we have seen it all. Reginald Fink #2 for the same tone, Budy Baker use -2, as does Rich Willey in "The Reinhardt Routines" many other say +2 meaning the same as #2. Tom Malone (Alternate Position System For Trombone) use 1.7 for the high G. I do not say it´s wrong, just that I prefer something that is lesser risk of missundersting. When I worked as a teacher I never used the + or - for that reason. Just like the 7the partial G is descibed as #2, -2, +2 by different writers.įor students it can be very confusing when using different books. One funny thing is that + is used by some to indicat that the tone should be raised by others just the oposite, the slide is to be longer. The low Eb is sometimes called just T3, sometimes described as b3 or 3- or 3+ or 4+ or 4- or #4 or bb3 or something else. when you use the F attachment you have jus 6 positions (or very often just 5 1/2) ![]() I have some examples of what, I will talk about two.Īre there right or wrong ways to tell slide positions?Įx. (I do have a problem with a mild dyslexi). ![]() Sometimes the discousions on the TTF get weird because of different way of wording things and because of that, missunderstandings, I am aware of that my bad spelling may cause some missunderstanding.
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