[Trombone-l] Slide vibrato - Mahler 3

[Don Fitzsimons]

I used a slide vibrato once when my wife was in the audience:  She thought that I had a bad episode of stage fright and my hand was trembling.  
 
I've use a jaw vibrato thereafter—unless I needed an especially wide range for humorous intent.
 
fitz

--- On Fri, 11/21/08, jgreen at gol.com <jgreen at gol.com> wrote:

From: jgreen at gol.com <jgreen at gol.com>
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] Slide vibrato - Mahler 3
To: "trombone-l at samford.edu" <trombone-l at samford.edu>
Date: Friday, November 21, 2008, 3:06 AM

I think I was the one who started that thread, so maybe now I can try to
set the record straight. The first time I played that youtube clip I
just enjoyed the music. The second time, I looked, noticed the vibrato,
and was a bit surprised. My comment about it was gratuitous (fingers
moved faster than the brain).
Just listened to it again, and I do wish I could play the solo as well as
Mr. Edvar did.

JG

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At 11:14 PM -0500 11/19/08, Ray Horton wrote:
This is opening up an ancient thread.  I didn't get a chance to listen
to when it was first posted and just happened across the link.

1st trombonist of La Scala using some (a small amount of) slide vibrato
on the Mahler 3rd solo:

<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUUFi0nhv3w>


Some guys here didn't like it, some did.

Reinforces what I tell my students:  Slide vibrato, wholly appropriate in
jazz and pop, calls attention to itself in serious playing.  The guy
sounds great, but gets complaints, here and in the youtube comments.  If
he did the same amount, or even more, of jaw/lip/airstream vibrato, no
complaints.

Raymond Horton






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