It can produce a soft mellow sound or a very, very, very loud, furious, harsh, edgy, "chainsaw" tone.Ī quick note. The bass trombone is best known for its ability to absolutely dominate the sound of an orchestra, possibly only overpowered by the bass drum or timpani. The D Flat, C, and B natural notes below the staff are accesible by combining combinations of both triggers. The low D Flat, C, and B natural are all difficult to hit without the extra trigger the bass trombone provides, but the E, E flat, and D natural can all be reached using the trigger.Ī bass trombone sacrafices even more of the upper range flexibiltiy (although a good bass tromobonist can still get pretty darn high) for better tone in the low register and access to notes a normal or F attachment tenor cannot reach. The range between the E below the bass staf and the pedal notes (really low B flat, A, A Flat, G) can be reached with a few exceptions. For example, a low c (normally played in 6th position) can be played in 1st with trigger, and a low b (normally in 7th position) can be played in trigger 2.Ī trombone with an F attachment trades a bit more difficulty in the higher register with access to lower notes a normal trombone can't handle. Trombones with F attachments have no difficulty with 1-7 slide transitions because the trigger, when pressed, effectively "extends" the slide for you without moving it. I'm going to add notes about tenor horns with F attachments and bass trombones, and other generic notes. For the brass band, the trombone is written in Bb treble clef, like every other brass band instrument. This is especially true for big band writing. Whatever you think about tenor clef saving paper, trombone players all hate it (well, I do anyway). Writing for trombone should be done in bass clef concert pitch. With good players, there should never be an issue with trombone tuning, as the tuning is adjustable with the slide. Generally, a bass trombone will need to breathe a lot more than a tenor trombone. The easiest keys to play in are concert Bb, F, Eb, C, and G. Also, like every brass instrument, large jumps of more than an octave are quite difficult. Trombones should be able to play semiquavers though, so long as long shifts such as this one aren't included. This is because you have to move the slide from first to seventh position. A very hard shift is Bb (2nd line of Bass Clef) to B natural one above it. However, higher up around the top range, the slide positions are all very close together. Generally, the higher register is more smooth, simply because in the upper register slide positions are closer together.īecause of the use of the slide, lower down the instrument, agility is much less than the other brass instruments. Trombones can produce a very harsh, very loud sound, or a very smooth warm mellow tone, depending on how they are played. If a bass trombone is being played, the lowest note would be the F one octave below the F under the bass clef stave, and the highest note would be the F which is the bottom space of the treble clef. In addition to this, the low Bb, A, Ab and G below the bass clef stave can be played, these are known as pedal notes. Higher notes can be played, but they are difficult to produce and sometimes inaccurate. The range of a trombone is from the 'E' on the ledger line below the stave in bass clef up to the D on the second to top line of treble clef.
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