Chords for "Technical Studies for Trombone" by Bob McChesney

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_ _ _ Hi, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I'm Bob McChesney and I want to introduce to you my new book called Technical Studies for Trombone.
_ This is a compilation _ of all the exercises and warm-ups that I do and that I share with my students.
_ _ We use this to maintain our chops and to get better.
_ _ _ It's designed for _ _ _ student to professional and if you're a classical player, _ a jazz player
or a commercial player, I think you would find these very helpful.
_ _ _ Each exercise is very concise on each subject and there are clear _ explanations and metronome
markings of how to play each one.
_ _ Now most of the important subjects and areas of trombone [Eb] playing are covered such as single
tonguing, double tonguing, _ _ embouchure control and with embouchure control there's lots of
different _ slurring control type of exercises that are included, _ _ _ tone, _ _ _ range. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ _ _ Most of these things are covered and there's also discussions _ in the book on certain subjects
like for example, _ I get asked about fast playing a lot.
What do I do to play fast?
How do I think about it?
Well I like _ to tell students _ that one of the most important things with fast playing is
not to _ transfer motion _ from the slide to the embouchure or do anything that upsets
the smooth legato sound.
When we play faster, _ we don't hear the pitch as much as we actually hear the smoothness being disrupted. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ So there's a section in the book on the variable slide grip so that we use the fingers and
the wrist more than we lock the wrist and use the forearm.
We want to get the forearm out of _ motion _ _ because that bouncing around affects our embouchure.
For example, if I try to hold a note and I'm moving the slide like this, _ _ _ _ _
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it can be disruptive
to the smooth legato sound that we're trying to get.
So the idea is by opening the fingers and you won't have to use the forearm as much. _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ The other aspect of fast playing _ that we want to keep in mind is when the note durations
are so short when we're going really fast, we don't really hear the pitch that well,
but we would hear a disruption in the sound.
So I have this parlor trick where I can actually demonstrate _ that the pitch is not as important
as the smoothness.
So what I do is play an ascending scale _ _ and I won't move the slide after a certain point
and it will still sound fairly similar _ as to when I did move the slide.
_ _ So I'll start with an A-flat major scale. _ _ _ _
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Similar, and I'll do B-flat major. _ _ _
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_ [Eb] _ _ _ _ _ So you can see that while pitch is important, it's more important to be smooth _ than to be
moving the forearm so much and you want to have smooth articulation such as in doodle tonguing. _ _
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_ _ _ Another basic thing that's covered in the book is how to control the embouchure to play
_ the entire range of the horn.
When I started out before I did these exercises, I could not play a two octave scale without
having to take the mouthpiece off and resetting.
So I'd have to play like this. _ _ _ _
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Reset.
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Reset.
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[Bb] _ _ _ [B] _ _ [Bb] through the practice of these kind of exercises, you get control over the entire instrument.
So now I can play _ _ _ [C] _ _ _ [D] _ _
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_ And without too much discussion about it, just through the practice of these exercises,
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_ In addition to these basic kind of exercises, there's also a whole section on doodle tonguing. _ _ _
And instead of having all the exercises that are in my doodle tonguing book, this gives
like a little overview of each aspect of doodle [Eb] tonguing so you can use it as a reference
if you're wondering how something is tongued.
_ You flip open.
Oh yeah, when I have two downward partial changes, here's what you would do.
So there's a whole section on that. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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I hope you find this book helpful. _
It's 55 pages long _ _ _ and there are nine pages at the back of blank manuscript for making
your own notations. _ _ _ _
It's spiral bound so it will lay flat on the music stand.
_ _ _ _ And I appreciate you taking the time to watch this video.
[D] I'm going to go back to practicing now. _ _
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