We all need to build tone and technique.
Why not do it in a more musical way?
Trombone Craft
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Bass Trombone Craft
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About these books…
Trombone Craft (169 pages) and Bass Trombone Craft (185 pages) are comprehensive approaches to building the
technical skills needed to play music well.
Here’s a quick summary:
- Motivation through musical interest
- If students like a piece, they are more likely to spend extra time polishing it.
- Ideas are linked and reinforced
- After a page helping students develop D in alternate 4th, for example, the next page presents two short pieces in E-flat major.
- Pieces of reasonable length
- In a lesson, time is precious. Get to the point quickly using short exercises and half-page etudes.
- A greater variety of key signatures
- Don’t get stuck in that B-flat / E-flat rut)
- Help with rhythm
- Some pages zoom in on common rhythm trouble spots, such as the deadly dotted-eighth sixteenth.)
- Cross-referencing to other books
- A big time-saver in lessons!
- Scale and arpeggio patterns with musical shape.
- • Bonus appendices focusing on special areas including:
- Developing the Legato Tongue
- Double and Triple Tonguing
- Pattern Building (scales and arpeggios)
- Interval Accuracy
- Developing the High Range
- Tone and Tuning Exercises
- Flow Exercises (sing, buzz, play)
- Developing the Legato Tongue
Reviews / Endorsements for Trombone Craft
This collection of excellent exercises by Brad Edwards gives new fuel to propel our daily routines. A regular visit to this book will undoubtedly help you to play more evenly and consistently and, when used in the precise way that Edwards suggests, will result in your overall improvement. I highly recommend this book to all students and professionals.
Joseph Alessi, Principal Trombone, New York Philharmonic, Juilliard School
Bravo Professor Edwards!
Reviews / Endorsements for Bass Trombone Craft
With Brad Edwards’ new book, “Bass Trombone Craft,” the teacher and player have a method that can take a young bass trombone player from the basic introduction of the valves all the way to true mastery of the instrument. The book introduces and focuses on every aspect of bass trombone playing, all in one volume. It is a welcome and needed addition to bass trombone pedagogical material that should be a staple of every teacher’s curriculum.
Denson Paul Pollard, Bass Trombone, Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Indiana University