Slide Positions for Playing the Trombone

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Hi! Well, now we've made some sound, we've learned our parts, we've learned about some accessories. Now we're going to learn about the slide positions. These slide positions give you the opportunity to play notes, and notes that, you know, are all through all the scales. We can get to that, too. There are seven positions on the trombone. One, two, three (where the stay is equal to the bell), four (where the beginning of the outer slide is equal to the bell), five, six, and seven. Now here you might be able to see a little bump here on both ends of the slide. That is the part of the inner slide that actually makes contact and creates a seal so air does not escape, because if air escapes the aerophone, it is not an aerophone that will play properly. It will go flat because air is leaking out. So, the seventh is here. The seven positions are also equivalent to the seven combinations that you would have on a trumpet, a valved trumpet. I could go through that at a later date, but the seven positions on the trombone correlate to the trumpet's seven valve positions, and there are some trombones that have valves. There's many variety of different kinds of brass instruments as modern machining began to make it available for mass production of valves, and consistency of manufacturing, people started to design different instruments for different uses -- Piccolo trumpets, trombones that are basically soprano trombones or base trumpets. There are a multitude of different types of brass instruments. Be that as it may, the seven positions of the trombone will give you the opportunity to play scales and to work up and down the instrument playing different notes.

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