The 21st Century Tenor Trombonist

Aaron Small

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Today’s orchestral auditions and positions nearly universally require trombonists to play more than one trombone at a high level. Nearly every principal trombone audition in Europe requires the trombonist to play alto trombone. However, there is not much material out there relating to maintaining or improving skills on a “secondary” instrument while still making good progress on the “primary” instrument. I hope that my study will help provide a new source of information on skill transference from instrument to instrument, as well as give an idea of how one can approach the differences between instruments. For instance, many people find it more difficult to play the lower tenor trombone after the alto trombone- why is this? Many people also feel that it is easier to play in the upper range on the alto trombone than on the tenor when your body physically does very similar things on each instrument. I hope that the exercises and other resources that I provide will help to come to conclusions on how to overcome these problems, as they have helped me.

type	research exposition
keywords	Alto Trombone, Tenor Trombone, Skill transference
date	21/11/2023
published	04/07/2024
last modified	04/07/2024
status	limited publication
copyright	-
license	CC BY-NC-ND
url	https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/2393394/2393395
published in	KC Research Portal
portal issue	3. Internal publication

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name	Alto Trombone Excerpt Frequency
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name	Amount of auditions requiring the Alto Trombone
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name	Padding- Alto Sketch
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name	1- Summer Practice Schedule
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name	2- Solos for Tenor and Alto
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name	3. Etudes
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name	Exercise 2
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name	Contemporary alto trombone solos
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Joram van Ketel 27/02/2024 at 20:37

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