Trombone Craft - Edwards

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)