Experiment with a tuner and with your ear, and try to find the right slide placement for each note. This indicates that you need to use your normal position, and then lightly tilt the slide higher (#) or lower (b).
In this trombone slide chart you can find all of the correct positions, from low E to a high Bb: Trombone Slide Position Chart (For Tenor Trombone)Īs you can see, some of the positions in the trombone position chart are marked with #/b. You can see this in the trombone position chart. There are 7 main trombone positions, but as long as you play higher notes, the positions are less accurate, since they are based on the harmonic series. Every time you move your slide outward, you are making the trombone longer, and by that the note you are playing is also traveling longer.
The slide of the trombone is our way to play different chromatic notes.
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