TROMBONISMS
BILL WATROUS & ALAN RAPH
TEXT BY BILL WATROUS & ALAN RAPH

STUDENT BOOK
PERFORMING ENSEMBLE: TROMBONE UNACCOMPANIED
INSTRUMENTATION: TENOR
NUMBER OF PAGES: 48
PUBLISHER: CARL FISCHER LLC

QUICK OVERVIEW:
-ORIENTED TOWARDS THE JAZZ AND COMMERCIAL TENOR OR BASS TROMBONE PLAYER, THIS BOOK IS A SET OF 47 ONE-PAGE 'UNITS,' EACH WITH A FEW SHORT EXERCISES ON EACH CONCEPT. UNLIKE MANY TECHNIQUE BOOKS, THIS BOOK DOES NOT JUST PRESENT A SERIES OF LARGE ETUDES WITH MANY TECHNICAL PROBLEMS. INSTEAD, EACH UNIT FOCUSES ON A SPECIFIC TROMBONISTIC TECHNICAL ISSUE (LIP-BREAK ARTICULATIONS, GLISSANDO, CHORD PROGRESSIONS, ETC). IT ALSO CONTAINS A NICE SECTION ON 'DOODLE' TONGUING. THE INCLUDED DEMO CD CONTAINS RECORDED EXAMPLES BY WATROUS (TENOR) AND RAPH (BASS) OF MOST OF THE EXERCISES.

CONTENTS:
-INTRODUCTION
-THE AUTHORS
-CONTROLLING THE AIR STREAM
-OVERTONE SERIES
-PLAYING FAST, CLEAN AND IN TUNE
-ALTERNATE POSITIONS
-LIP-BREAK ARTICULATIONS
-OVERTONE CHART
-ARPEGGIO PATTERNS
-DOUBLE AND TRIPLE TONGUING
-DEVELOPMENT OF DA-DL-A-DL
-DEVELOPMENT CHOICES
-PLAYING VERY HIGH NOTES
-PLAYING VERY LOW NOTES
-PLAYING VERY LONG NOTES/CIRCULAR BREATHING
-PLAYING MORE THAN ONE NOTE
-THE BUZZ PORTAMENTO/GLISSANDO
-VIBRATO
-F-ATTACHMENT(ISM)
-UNUSUAL SOUNDS
-GENERAL CONSIDERATIONS/HINTS FOR PRACTISING
-APPENDIX A
-APPENDIX B
-APPENDIX C