Trombone Craft: A Musical Approach to Building Tone and Technique by Brad Edwards

We all need to build tone and technique. Why not do it in a more musical way? Trombone Craft (169 pages) is a comprehensive approach 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! Patterns to be memorized - Scale and arpeggio patterns with musical shape. Bonus appendices focusing on speci