[Trombone-l] A question on alternate(?) positions.

[Price Taylor]

Perfect recommendation for the 2 best alternative positions in the middle
register - thanks Eric!

-Price Taylor



On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 9:45 PM, Eric Swanson <boneman88 at sbcglobal.net>wrote:

> Jeremy,
>
> I think you have the right idea.  At least you're asking the right
> questions, anyway.  If you are pretty much a beginner on trombone, I
> wouldn't worry too much about all the alternates for now with a
> couple exceptions.  There are a lot of times when you have something
> like C, D, Eb above the bass clef where it just makes a lot of sense
> to go ahead and use the fourth position D instead of coming back to
> first, so I would go ahead and get in the  habit of using that one.
> The other one would be using fourth line F in sixth position when you
> are already out on that end of the slide.  Learn that one too for
> sure.  I think those will get you started off on the right foot.
>
> Eric Swanson
>
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> On Mar 23, 2009, at 9:40 PM, Jeremy Yager wrote:
>
> > Hey Listers,
> > I am a clarinet player who has been invited to play trombone with a
> > local
> > trombone choir that I'm arranging some music for.  I marched
> > baritone in
> > college--in fact, I made a brief appearance on this list a few
> > years back.
> > I'd like to be useful to this choir rather than just making
> > flatulent noises
> > behind a stand, so I'm working pretty hard to get some decent slide
> > work
> > going.
> >
> > So, I have a question on alternate positions after reading the '51
> > Positions' thread.  Do you use alternate positions whenever it is
> > the most
> > convenient (in terms of same slide direction or short position
> > changes), or
> > do you reserve them for technical passages when it is difficult
> > otherwise?
> > In other words, would a competent trombone player be concerned
> > about slide
> > direction and slide travel distance for a passage if playing standard
> > positions didn't affect the musicality of the passage in question?
> >
> > As a reference, on clarinet, for many notes we have a basic
> > fingering and
> > then alternates that come into play when it is technically
> > difficult (or
> > impossible!) to reach the basic fingering from the previous or next
> > note.
> > However, alternate fingerings are not usually preferred when the basic
> > fingering is reachable due to tuning or tone quality concerns.
> > Does such an
> > distinction exist for trombone?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Jeremy
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