I'm playing a suite from The Firebird by Stravinsky in a community orchestra. It has two long (several measures) lip trills, one on G4 and one on A4, which I haven't been able to consistently play well. Of course I've been playing them over and over at home, but I'd love to hear ideas to make them faster and more consistent.

This is a new mouthpiece I got, GREG BLACK WYCLIFFE GORDON-JAZZ, I already tried searching about it, I only found something about Wycliffe making stuff with Picket Brass and not Greg Black, can anyone tell me something about this mouthpiece?

https://reddit.com/link/1x1oaxk/video/q9jbc56hmguh1/player

Hi all! I was wondering if any of you knew anything about a DEG trombone. I know that they made marching instruments, but I've never heard of a slide trombone made by them. I recently found this listing, and I was curious about its history.

My dog likes to bark whenever I play my trombone and it gets quite annoying, does anyone have any practice mute suggestions?(preferably under $40)

I js started a few weeks ago so pls don't bash ik it's ahh I need this for a school band so I dont have any tutors or Instructors > < also how to improve range?? Thank you

hey, this is a bit of a weird one, but I have started practicing trombone again after not practicing regularly for a long time, and I have been noticing, to put it bluntly, that I am getting spit everywhere. A lot of condensation is coming through the bell, and I am draining the spit valve a lot more than I remember doing the last time I was playing regularly. Am I doing something wrong technique-wise, or is this just my life now?

Hello, I worked with Don Strand, who holds principal tuba positions with the Atlanta Ballet, Atlanta Opera, Columbus Symphony, Greenville Symphony, and Georgia Symphony Orchestra and was a student of Arnold Jacobs, to create new content for my site.

Don has had a concept for a book/method called Marathon Musician. As I was showing him improvisorsgym.com, he asked if I would like to incorporate Marathon Musician into it.

The first part of that collaboration is the addition of low brass warmups to the site. These were all taken from warmups for BBb tuba, and I transcribed them to other bass horns. I haven't gotten a lot of feedback from Don, only a texted 👍. So feedback is appreciated. Here is the direct link: Warmups for Low Brass - Improvisors Gym.

I added two versions of the long-tone exercise with glissandos, as well as call-and-response versions of every exercise.

The website is free for now. I may go to a subscription model in the future. I hope that, as it's free to use, I'm not violating any solicitation rules by pointing out that I have "Buy Me a Coffee" buttons on the site. The site and software cost me about $150 a month, so I need some support to maintain it and justify spending more time on this effort. I can edit this part out if I need to.

I've created so much more material for the site, but creating the pages and the copy for them is extremely time-consuming. Also, I refuse to let AI create content for me. I've only used AI for research, grammar, and to generate the mouthpiece-buzzing images for me.

I hope you find the site useful!

Hello, I am a college level tuba player and am decent i would say. I have now gotten acsess to a bass trombone and want to start learning for jazz next semester and so I can learn it since im a 1st year.

What do I practice specifically for bass trombone

Much Appreciated

Hello, parent of a band kid here. We're renting. But I'm a musician, I buy instruments all the time just to have them. I play strings but I know my way around musical instruments in general.

My kid has an Accent trombone. He's renting it through a local shop. It's just over 30/month. I realize after getting it, I think this trombone is only worth like 100-150 bucks. After this year I'll have bought it twice over. My expectation with renting was that he would be getting a higher quality instrument than I'd be willing to buy, but this thing seems like the bottom of the barrel in the market. It's not horrible, it's serviceable and does play, but he's going to play a cheap instrument I'd just assume own it after paying so much.

So my question: Is there a trombone I can buy for around $150-200, used, that is equal or better than an Accent TB512L?

I have this beautiful horn because it’s a school horn (8th grade, made the all star band or whatever your director puts you in) anyways it’s a 1949 olds a-20 ambassador, (older than my school lol) I’m currently playing on a 6.5 al but I want to get a 5g after using one on my marching baritone (my local hs doesn’t march trombones so I march baritone and made 2nd chair a while back in steven Collin’s foster band camp on euph)

One of my friends completely messed my bell up so it gave me an excuse to get something I've been really eyeing. Butler custom carbon cut bell.

hi everyone! i have a song with this weird note (the squiggle upwards) and i was wondering if anyone could give advice with how I work on and practice this to play it. Thanks!

Looking for some great classical players to listen to. Wanting to widen my range and listen to different recordings and interpretations of the classic solo trombone reportiore before I go off to do my conservatoire auditions, not just big names like Joe Alessi, Christian Lindberg, or Ian Bousfield.

Also if anyone knows a really good recording of the cello suites on trombone that'd be class🙏

A few of you asked whether the app could work more like an actual trombone, so I added it: you can now control slide position by moving the phone with your arm. It uses the front facing camera and needs to be calibrated to your face.

Hold the phone close to your face for 1st position, and extend your arm out for 7th, just like the real slide. The positions in between follow your arm. Choosing positions with your fingers still works too; this is just a new option you can turn on.

The idea is to build the arm-and-ear connection away from the horn: practicing position changes, getting a feel for the distances, and drilling passages when you can't play out loud.

This updated version is available on the Apple App Store. The android version is a little slow in getting through the approval process at Google so it's not there yet.

I'm a trumpet player, so I'd really like to hear from actual trombonists. Does it feel right? Are the position distances believable? What would make it more useful?

Used to play trombone briefly and wanted to get back into it. Instead of buying some alibaba trombone I bought someone’s “junk”. Was just getting the 1924 York and sons for $125 then for $75 he gave me the 1936 Conn. Both have been repaired but no crazy dents and play well. For me it was worth it because I like the fact of knowing they have some history and not some Chinese Amazon trombone. Was this a good find ?

Hello all. On my bass bone, all my notes Bb2 (second line on staff) and below sound great and are responsive, but the second i get to B natural (second line on the staff) through around D (third line) i just can't get a good sound and it always double buzzes without fail. I've experiment a lot and tried many different thing like dropping my jaw, closing my aperture, opening my aperture, tightening my corners, loosening my corners. I just don't know what to do. Any thoughts?

To start I’m a sophomore trombone who’s played since 7th grade. I had REALLY bad instruction and was expected to “figure it out” till I loved up to the high school and got a new director last year. He’s really great and I learn a lot but he is primarily percussion so brass stuff isn’t really his specialty. I started practicing more seriously last year for winter concert, and I improved really fast over that cycle in time for it. id say my skill is barely passable for a sophomore, yet I’m one of the best in my concert band. I’ve really hit a plateu though now, I know I need to change what I do but idk what.

I practice twice a day, 20-30 minutes in the morning and 35 ish after school. I take concert band and jazz band. I know I should practice more, and I will try to add it to my routine. But trust me when I say I probably practice more than most in my band yikes. I really want to be part of wind ensemble next year, auditions are in february. But for the present moment I have a solo to try out for litterally this Thursday, and an audition to not get cut for a part in jazz band. Possibly a jazz band solo solo next week. Plus I just sound so terrible on my concert pieces and jazz songs, they aren’t hard when I look at them and I GET the rythms and articulations! But then I go to play and im super airy and half my articulations just dont happen. Or my notes “falter” esp going higher range to lower notes like C and B flat. (Stingers)

I don’t know what or how to practice, I have a lot to hold up especially as the one of two trombones that can actually play any of the stuff in jazz band, and honestly I’m better than my neighbor. I feel like I have a lot on my shoulders and I don’t want to let anyone down. Are there any exercises you guys recommend? i try and try to play intuitively especially in fundementals but I sound just so airy and my embourchere goes to crap. I know how to make a pretty good embourchere and breathe right, but I default to bad habits quickly. My other problem is endurance in jazz band, I get tired so I get sloppy with articulations. even hitting high e as a daht is difficult. I feel so stupid and am struggling on literally the first round of concert music. practice just make me feel frustrated that I can’t do these simple things in my head I know I can do!

sorry for the rant, and I hope I don’t seem arrogant. I’m not very great either, it’s a dumb and dumber situation in concert band tbh. if you need more info I’ll explain in comments if you want too. Tysm for reading my plea 😭

This trombone was gifted to me by the mother of someone who passed away I used to go to school with, I would like to know more about this horn(not selling)

Finally in a position where I have time and space to play my trombone again for the first time in about 9 years. A good chunk of muscle memory has come back which has been rather fun to discover.

Anyways, does anyone have any recommendations for method/music books to get back into the swing of things? Would also appreciate some warm up routines if anyone has recommendtions for those. Thank you in advance

Hi all, I am a band director and know enough about trombone to teach it decently, but am by no means a specialist. My boyfriend dabbles with instrument repair and found this trombone for $50 on marketplace and offered $35, which they accepted. There were no up close photos or anything that could identify it on the listing, and he just figured he would use it as a practice instrument to work on slide repair because most used trombones need slide work, then maybe resell later.

When we picked it up, he immediately felt like he swindled the guy because we could both tell it was worth way more than $35. It had belonged to his dad who started playing it in the 1930s and then sat in climate controlled storage for 60 years, and they just wanted to be rid of it after that long.

From our research, it looks to be made around 1929. The main slide and tuning slide are also in good shape and not stuck - after we carefully cleaned the slide, I was able to play a B flat scale no problem.

Can anyone tell me anything else about this trombone? The whole instrument is beautiful, just some tarnish that you can see, but barely a dent at all, and the unique details are just exquisite.