![]() When I see the A above the staff, I simply play A440 in second position. I know that the fundamental is Eb, but the tenor’s fundamental is Bb and we still read C music. Learning the alto tromboneįirst, I treat the tenor as a C instrument. Check it out here and download the free preview. One of my best selling books, it takes player from the basics of learning the positions and partials all the way through playing jazz. I would be remise if I didn’t at least mention my book Alto Trombone Savvy. It was a struggle, but I eventually wrestled it to the ground! I just needed to come clean on a little history because I do not think it is easy to learn the alto on the side with the full or greater proficiency many tenor players desire. So like early explorers wishing to remove the fallback of sailing back home once things got difficult, I sold my tenor and forced myself to get it together. I’m not suggesting both can’t be played really well simultaneously, just not by me back then. ![]() But I got to the point of sounding bad on both. After all, I had gigs around town, school groups and my trombone studies so I was trying to hang on to my tenor proficiency while learning the alto. That is precisely why I sold my tenor in college shortly after taking up the alto. My sense is that there are a fair amount of alto trombones out there not being used to their fullest because of the difficulty for a tenor player to play both well. I’ve had a surprising number of requests for my thoughts on how tenor players can best learn alto trombone. ![]()
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