Professional bass trombonists should be able to play at least up to the D below that F: Most professional tenor trombonists can reliably produce notes from the fundamental (B flat below the bass clef) to the twelfth harmonic (F at the top of the treble clef). This means if you blow through the instrument with the slide all the way in you will get a note from the B flat harmonic series. Know what key they are pitched in and you are well on your way to figuring out how they tick.Īs I mentioned, the vast majority of tenor and bass trombones are in B flat. There are plenty others: alto trombones, soprano trombones, contrabass trombones, piccolo trombones. You’ll generally be dealing with one of two types: tenor trombones and bass trombones. Octave, fifth, fourth, major third, minor third, flat minor third, etc. If you don’t know anything about the harmonic series take a second to digest that info (particularly the section “ Frequencies, Wavelengths…”) I’ll wait here. To know what gliss a trombone can do you have to first understand the harmonic series, then understand the layout of the trombone. The Harmonic Series (You Should Know This) Tl dr: scroll down to the “Exhaustive List” below. But 99.9999% of trombones today are pitched in B flat bringing us to the question of “what makes a trombone glissando possible?” More than likely he was writing for someone playing a bass trombone pitched in F which would make this lick most playable. To his credit, Bartók probably knew what he was doing when he mocked Shostakovich. Excerpt from the third trombone part of the Fourth Movement of Bartók’s “Concerto for Orchestra.”Ĭan’t do it (for reasons I’ll explain in a bit) but ugly little things like this keep turning up in my parts, maybe because one popular orchestration book calls it “perfect.” (Cough, Adler, cough.)
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