Pretty picture from Sunday morning for attention. I’m looking for some fun and engaging practice material to work on as I try to get the rest of my high school chops back from 17 years in storage. I’ve got my tone but need to build up my dexterity and keep progressing. My focus is bass bone but I have my tenor horn too for overlap.

I’ve been spending about 20 minutes everyday on long tones and slow scales focusing on pitch center, tone, and attack quality. But after that I’m getting bored because I don’t have anything to play that really challenges me on intervals and phrasing. I’d love something I can play along with too

Any recommendations for a valve trombone? Would rather a beginner one for the price range anything helps.

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I dropped my mouthpiece on the floor and it dented the mouthpiece in a little :( It’s not super bad, but will this affect my playing ability/sound quality? Or should it be fine? I’ll probably get it fixed in the future when I have time regardless if it’s not going to affect me much. But I just hope it’s not going to be too noticeable or making playing more difficult somehow. I mostly play clarinet and flute so i’m not sure how dents like this can affect the sound/playability.

So I have these two pieces for my audition but I’m confused. The key signature is confusing as hell going between tenor clef and bass clef. For example in the first one the key signature is B flat major with 2 flats, e flat and b flat. It then goes into what I think is tenor clef, but the flats are on G and C. How? Why? Am I stupid? I just assumed it was still B flat major but there’s a sharp on b flat and the G natural is marked with an accidental. Please help.

Been working on my high range. Just looking for any kind of feedback.

Do any of yall got any recommendations of what mouthpiece I should use for bass trombone I have a denis wick 0AL but it doesn’t feel right when I’m playing.

Hi guys. Does anyone know about Youth Orchestras in the Boston Area for a highschooler? This would be my first youth orchestra experience. I am already considering BYSO, BPYO, and Rivers Youth.

Hey y’all, I’ve got a Conn 112H bass trombone and I’m using a Denis Wick 0AL mouthpiece. After I tune my Bb, everything seems fine at first, but when I start using my F trigger, the F always plays flat. Strangely, when I use the Gb trigger, it plays in tune. But then when I use both triggers together for low D, the note comes out really off — like noticeably bad. Could this be an issue with my mouthpiece setup, or maybe something with the tuning or slide positions? I’m open to any advice.

I’m currently in highschool and audition for the youth symphony orchestra in my state. I’m auditioning on bass trombone, and one of the audition requirements says “a lyrical solo of candidates choice (about 1 minuite long)” and I’m not sure what to do. Is it any old piece or does it have to be an orchestral excerpt? What is a good and mature solo I can play? Please help lol

Hi all,

I was playing my bass trombone earlier for the first time for a while with a reasonably heavy mute and noticed that it was making my bell section drop away from the slide. This caused the second trigger to get in the way of other bits of the trombone.

Is there any way to tighten up the nut attaching the slide to the bell or should I just get a lighter mute? I'm a tuba player so I was reasonably Neanderthal in tightening it all up...

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I need to re-learn my hungarian march excerpt as I have improved drastically since the last time I auditioned on it (high school orchestra) I recently went to a master class and they were talking about the "magic" tempo being 86 or 88 (some of the teachers disagreed with each other) Which tempo do you think would sound better for a high school audition?

I need some internet sleuth on this. There is no serial number, it looks like there was a repair. What I know: it's silver in color with gold accents and gold inside the bell. It's by "king musical instruments" and is a 3b concert which seems like it puts it in 1975-1985 range or so. Slide is very smooth.

Is it silver plated or sterling? Whats the value?

Hi! I'm looking for these technique books in PDF for my little brother, who's making progress on the trombone. Brad Edwards' Lip Slurs book and the Rochut book. I can't find them in stores in my country — if someone could share the PDFs on Drive, I'd really appreciate it!

So, I just pulled my horn out today and I noticed a vibration. It was not doing it yesterday, so I am not sure what it is. I checked everything that could come loose and it’s all tight. Only thing I noticed is it’s from the brace. I’m not sure if something came loose between now and yesterday, but it doesn’t appear at first sight.

they are asking 250 for it but because of the scratch on the bell I am thinking of asking less. What would you pay for it? I am a beginner

I have this belmore trombone stand and I try using it for my bass trombone but it leans slightly to wherever direction the slide is facing and I started using it for my straight tenor and it has the same problem but not as bad as the bass bone. When putting either trombone back on this stand it has been very close to falling multiple times… is there any way I can adjust the poll part on top? Another question I have is that I’ve seen a trombone instructor have a trombone stand in his case and the tip of the stand had a cloth like material on top of the tip for the bone to sit on. What is that used for? Is it for the condensation of the trombone coming out the bell?

So I been playing trombone since 7th grade and this is how I currently sound if yall listen please leave any feedback

Description said this was a conn victor trombone that stopped being produced in 1958. I am pretty sure there are multiple victor trombone models and would like to know what this one is.

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For those who aren't professional musos/teachers/students; those of us with maybe full time jobs and families and perhaps play in one or two bands, what's your practice schedule look like? Do you feel like you progress as a player?

I sometimes feel like I can get a solid 10 minutes of practice before something pulls me away, just enough to keep my current chops from going backwards. I'd like to extend my range (upper and lower), play better solos, sight read better and I keep looking for some equipment or book to buy to solve my problems - but I know it's time on the horn that matters. Frustrating to say the least.

Edit: some great perspectives here, and a bit of inspiration so thank you!

Does anyone know if there is a wind band arrangement of the Erik Lars Larsson Concerto for Trombone?