[Trombone-l] sight reading in jazz

[Steve Carr]

also try Jack Gale's jazz duets.
Great duets and it comes with a play-along CD w/ rhythm section.
nice for the day no friend is available for duets
and
there are tracks with just rhythm so two trombones can play with the
background tracks.

Steve



----- Original Message -----
From: "George Carr" <georgecarr at gmail.com>
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Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 1:58 PM
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] sight reading in jazz


> > It'll sound like a silly and flipant response, but it's a serious
answer; the only way to practice sight reading is to practice sight reading.
> > P.S.  I got a similar suggestion on developing my high range - to learn
to play high, play high.  Worked great ;-)
>
> Second all of that.  The only way to feel comfortable reading
> 'left-handed' or syncopated rhythms is to trip over them a few times.
> I had a college jazz teacher who made a point of reading through
> homework assignments from his counterpoint and composition classes -
> they contained so many notation errors that once you could read them,
> you could read anything.
>
> Buy some jazz duet books and play through them with a friend - I
> recommend the Bulla books for trombone, or the Niehaus trumpet duet
> book if you're more comfortable in Bb treble clef.
>
> George
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