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Style and phrasing tips for idiomatic jazz trombone
Sight-reading jazz on the trombone introduces unique physical hurdles that differ significantly from valves or keys. To read fluidly, your slide technique must be entirely second nature so that your eyes can remain focused ahead on the music.
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Harmonic sight-read / reduced practice (5–8 min)
Short and light. Avoid making it sound choked or pinched on the trombone. Tenuto / Legato Style and phrasing tips for idiomatic jazz trombone
Jazz is a music of risk. The perfect sight reader plays every ink-black note. The great jazz sight reader plays 90% of the notes, but makes those 90% swing . They add a subtle glissando where none was written. They breathe with the phrase. They turn a mechanical exercise into a first-draft composition.
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Style and phrasing tips for idiomatic jazz trombone
Sight-reading jazz on the trombone introduces unique physical hurdles that differ significantly from valves or keys. To read fluidly, your slide technique must be entirely second nature so that your eyes can remain focused ahead on the music.
Are you reading mostly or small group lead sheets ? Share public link
Harmonic sight-read / reduced practice (5–8 min)
Short and light. Avoid making it sound choked or pinched on the trombone. Tenuto / Legato
Jazz is a music of risk. The perfect sight reader plays every ink-black note. The great jazz sight reader plays 90% of the notes, but makes those 90% swing . They add a subtle glissando where none was written. They breathe with the phrase. They turn a mechanical exercise into a first-draft composition.