How to unlock your range on the Trombone! 

Ryan Syafoek I can hit a double f on euphonium 🅱️

I like how this is the first comment i see

Can hit a triple E on clarinet. Oh shoot wrong category

@@AlgyCuber I can play C10 on piano ("fifth-fret" harmonic on the highest note)

I can play a Bb 3 on trombone BEAT THAT

#trombonegang

Q Ikr

... it scares me

Thicc

Piccolos be like

i was scrolling up trying to see the note

Naw trombotine is the way to go.

+Nicholas Prickett No way

triple D, as in 3D's above the staff? And how do you have a small bore with a trigger?

Yes. The note can't be held for more than a second or two and I barely have my bottom lip in the mouthpiece. I have done it on a Vincent Bach 12c mouthpiece. I had a friend in the 7th grade who recently had a King trombone for sale for a great price and it was an old trombone that his grandfather played about 40 years ago. It is the only small bore trigger trombone i have ever seen or heard of.

Some older horns are close wrap small bores. My friend has an old Conn with a small bore and a trigger. Its in recent years that people have favored the large shank with large open wrap triggers.

Many bach triggerbones are small bore, mine included

Evan White same

I play horseradish

I play a mixture of Mayo, ketchup, and mustard

SirPants III I play clarinet

i play eupho

7evenb same

you clicked on it loser

I play trumpet

To be a functioning tuba player all you need is 1 & 5.

Bro same anything above c for me is just impossibly bad

Which C, like the one above concert F, or do mean the one above that?

@@trombonetimmy1064 LOL. What is concert F? There are quite a few concert F's on trombone :)

@@somebody9033 the default one you learn in 6th grade beginner band.

@@trombonetimmy1064 I don't know what you learn in 6th grade band.... assuming middle C on the piano is C4, which note is it?

Smokey The Cat? You aren't in your realm..go home

Smokey The Cat? I don't even play an instrument why am I here

i play clarinet why am i here

I play the trombone

Boi I play Snare drum and I’m watching this

Nicholas Huffman Speaking of blood, one time I had a drum major who would use her baton to push trumpeter's bells up. One guy had braces and it cut his lip and it started bleeding. So, he emptied his bloody, spitty spit valve on her shoe. She quit band the next week

Dineth Altmann wow that's kind of... weird. and also, was it the drum major or the trumpet player that quit?

Nicholas Huffman Drum major

Dineth Altmann why would she push up the bells.

You should never practise until you bleed! Thats an extremely damaging practice - I know an ex-professional euphonium player (a winner of the British Open solo among other accolades) He destroyed the muscles in his lips by pushing himself too hard while practicing and playing.

i did a poopy

Move the mouthpiece down has the same effect as moving it upwards

Facial hair will affect the seal your face has to the mouthpiece, so I would recommend shaving the goatee or at least getting the hair far enough away from the mouthpiece to have a good seal. There’s a great number of fine looking people without hair on their heads!

However, mouthpiece placement also helps significantly.

I disagree, with practice these shifts can essentially be formed into one "pivot" that allows one to transition seamlessly through ranges. Every amazing trombonist that I've ever known who had incredible range started off exactly this way and then just found ways to connect the "embouchures" into one system.

but how low? I can somewhat get the Bb below the staff. I'm in middle school, can play the Bb above the staff, kinda get the Eb.

There is one on the staff, the "low" f (I play tuba) Is a step below the staff

Steven Yang try these techniques to unlock your range: two octave scales, flexibility exercises, buzzing arpeggios and half scales.

Cole D. I can do that and ive been playing for a year

The question really isn't whether or not you can hit a really high note or a really low note its actually if you can play them musically and in tune. In fact, playing extreme high notes or low notes is best demonstrated while playing music in the band literature. Another good way to develop high notes and low notes is doing octave jumps. This tests your ability to hear and reach the notes readily.

Symphonic band isn't advanced that's symphonic winds

@@Evanw10282 how on earth are you to know the difficulty at someone else's school?

@@charliewhelan9488 cause I just do

its my 2nd year playing trombone as well, last year i played tenor and this year I've switched to bass but i just auditioned and successfully got into my schools symphonic band also which is the second highest band at my school. congrats on perfecting your 2nd octave Bb scale : )

FaZe Silverr and by "perfected" you mean perfect tuning right?

***** I played frère Jacques in my first year

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***** what Second Year Middle School???

It's better to just go with what is comfortable for the individual. You can change your embouchure for substantially lower, or higher notes.

+Zach McCartney If one wants to sound like Joe Alessi, or James Markey, one must play like them. The less variables you have as you play the more likely you to sound consistent through all registers. If you move your mouthpiece up to play hire, the mouthpiece is holding the lips closer to the teeth, the only way to truly sound good in those registers is to build the strength through Remington's and lip-slurs. I can play a pedal C and a double F without moving my mouthpiece around. Because I have built up the strength. On comment of what is most comfortable for the player is best, it is true that there are many different ways of solving the same problem, but there are second and third rate solutions to a problem that can be fixed by doing one superior process. The really good professional players we all aspire to sound like, all have a fairly consistent placement of slide positions and tuning slides, because they execute the first rate solution to its highest potential.

I was in a masterclass with alan baer once. All he talked about was how to sound amazing. He said range and technique should take a backseat. He said one thing to practice is buzzing on your mouthpiece and then slowly taking it off your face while maintaining the pitch. I've been doing it for maybe a month and I have to say it's the most effective embouchure muscle building excercise I've ever done. My parents say I sound completely different from how I did before that masterclass.

Reece MacDonald my friend Preston he is a beginner trombonist and he watches Trent

+samd shawd double petals lol. I hit them when I was a freshmen. idek. double petals are good for bragging thats about it.

My old band director had a trombone with valves

@@averageatbest6917 i cheat with one of those actually

+Taran Kota These techniques are to enable you to initially reach the notes. With more and more practice you should be able to normalise your embouchure so that it doesn't have to change position as much.

+Trent Hamilton Want to know a pretty much equally good technique (that you don't need to move the mouthpiece). Simple answer, aim your airflow in different places in the mouthpiece.... Then it will be the same result that most people use. It's easy after a while, becomes a habit you don't need to think about and examiners and people won't get picky about it.

Are you taking about 4 octaves up form low range D or mid - range D? Both are still impressive

@@fun_nuggets2514 The one thats like 5-6 lines above the staff in bass clef, not sure exactly

Thats not that hard are you talking about high D

@@Evanw10282 yes he is it isn’t hard he was a little inexperienced tho

@@AscensionUSA D5?

+xXxStankyFatDog GamingxXx There's another video in my channel where I talk about double tonguing.

Btw the song is a variant of "thoughts of love"

Ive made it pedal g to high g

4 octaves on the dot

As of my junior year I have the F 2 octaves below concert F up to F 2 octaves above concert F (only in first pos) but I haven’t really checked my low range past that

I can play double pedal g on a small bore

Same

Yes, and the same idea for tubas? I'm a noob tubist and I want to be able to play higher notes, just for fun. I can already play the basic b-flat, high b-flat, and higher b-flat. (Three octaves.) Edit: My band director (I'm a 6th grader) has said that I should have my mouthpiece about 50/50 for general playing. The only times I have ever had different mouth positions in it were on accident. Otherwise I've not had a chance yet to try this tactic, assuming it is the same idea for tubas. (50/50 for normal playing, 35/65 for lower notes, and 65/35 for higher notes, or something similar to that.)

I already have a pretty large range on trumpet, I'm in my high school marching band and our music demands quite a decent range. I can get down to a double pedal A and up to an Eb above the staff, or an E but it's a bit wavery there. I can go higher, like double A above the staff but the sound is nowhere near as full as I'd like it to be and it's very wavery. I would love to know how to make that sound full and get my range up above a double C

Trumpeter2016 try to change up your embouchure, if you play right in the middle of the mouthpiece it may make your tone sound good, but your range worse, and always use more air for higher notes.

Slightly deeper cup smaller rim

Treble clef F or concert F? Cuz the first F below the staff is like a ton of ledgers down, times by 3 is rediculous.

No There's no way you can play That the highest We learned was high D

Mike Do you're supposed to have more upper lip

I’m in 8th now

How were you in 6th grade watching this and 2 years late your in 8th grade yet the video was made 5 years ago

Yes just check out a professional classical trombone player and a professional french horn Player!

J.C. Hopkins baby step's and memorization. I have been playing trombone since 4th grade and now I'm in the top 10 in my state.( 8th grade) this has helped me be able to memorize 16th notes that fast and be able to play even faster

LimSoDuh pretty sure he doesnt play alto...at least not decently lawl