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Part of the video series: How to Play the Trombone

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Summary: Meet our trombone expert and get an introduction to playing trombone in this free video music lesson.

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JD Keating JD Keating is a musician, artist and educator from Western Massachusetts. For two decades he has lent his varied talents to innumerable projects in the music ... read more

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Meet Our Trombone Playing Expert

Hi, it's JD again, and I have in my hand a B flat trombone. It's a brass instrument. It is also an aerophone. Aerophones are any instrument which air travels through and vibrates and comes out the other end. So in brass instruments, we have the mouthpiece, where air goes in, goes into the lead tube, down the slide, around the curve, and out the bell. You can tell air goes through because you can hear it. Now that really doesn't do much. You need to create a vibration of the air, by buzzing your lips a little bit. We'll get into that in the next segment. The trombone also has a telescoping slide, which you can remove, they fit right in, and this is how you make all the notes on the trombone. Its' one of the early brass instruments that was fully chromatic. It was used in churches for warfare actually, the early brass were designed to signal military manuvers. As the years went on, it was then refined and manufactured into orchestral uses.

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