Trombone still has a long way to go, mainly because it is a long way down in the stack of instruments I have to practice for my livelihood vs the hobby dabbles. Primary and possibly alternate fingering/slide position, check! Today, I am totally fluent in either clef on Euphonium. Still, as you can see, the charts have it all. Unknown is whether this is a good or bad thing. With the fingering/slide position chart method of learning notes there is less emphasis on the rote memorization of the score itself, and more on the instrument. By Natalie Cressman, Trombone Player for Trey Anastasio Band. I picked up a Symphonic Tenor Bone about 3 months ago and I am not using equivalencies for the most part, I am learning the slide positions straight from a slide position chart.īass Clef line and space acronyms can be sexist and/or problematic, but one I learned from a friend might be useful?: Good Bassists Don't Forget Amps. THEN the fingering to slide position equivalencies will make more sense, since they will be going from Bass Clef Euph to Bass Clef Bone. not to learn Bass Clef Euphonium first, as it is probably a useful tool to possess anyway. I got a Euphonium during the first year of Covid, and learned Bass and Treble Clef simultaneously by using these fingering charts: Treble Clef Bass Clef The low B is possibly the most challenging note on the bass trombone. Alternate positions are incredibly useful for trombonists, and having a working proficiency with them will make life much easier. I hope that all is helpful, good luck! Trombone is a very fun instrument. The choice of which positions to use depends on a few things including which notes come before it. 3rd position for example can be in very different places, depending on which 3rd position note you're actually playing. A method book will give you a general feel of where each position is on trombone, but at some point you want to check the tuning of EVERY SINGLE PITCH on the trombone with a tuner to make sure you have the slide in the exact right place.If you did two octaves, you'd end up 4 ledger lines above the staff in bass clef. The "Concert Bb" scale, which is the C scale on Euphonium, starts on second line Bb and goes to Bb just above the bass clef staff.A C on treble clef euphonium is a Bb on trombone, and the C below the staff on euph equals the second line Bb on trombone.You'd also want to be aware of F and E right below the bass clef staff, which while not common, aren't exactly unheard of either. Make sure you know where the different letters are located in Bass Clef - for lines, I use "George Bush Drives Fast Always" from bottom to top, for spaces I use "All Cows Eat Grass" bottom to top.There are a couple of things to learn to make this transition smoothly:
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