TROMBONE TOPICS: A - Z

LISTING BY MILT STEVENS
PRINCIPAL TROMBONIST,
NATIONAL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

e-mail: stevensm@ziplink.net

Trombonist National Symphony Orchestra Brass Principals Quintet
Conductor Washington Symphonic Brass
Conductor Interservice Trombone Choir
Adjunct Professor Catholic University of America
Artist in Residence University of Maryland

ABDOMINAL SUPPORT
ABILITY
ACCENTS
ACCURACY
ACROSS THE GRAIN POSITIONING
AIR FLOW
AIR PRESSURE
AIR SPEED
AIR STREAM
ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE
ALTERNATE POSITIONS
ALTO CLEF
ALTO TROMBONE
APERTURE
ARTICULATION
ATTACKS
AUDITIONING


BARITONE HORN
BASS TROMBONE
BASS TRUMPET
BELL OF THE TROMBONE
BERMUDA TRIANGLE
BETA BLOCKERS
BLOCKAGE OF AIR
BORE SIZES
BREATH ATTACKS
BREATHING
BREATHING EXERCISES
BREATH SUPPORT
BUDGETING PRACTICE TIME
BUZZING
BUZZ POINT


CHOKING
CHORDAL TUNING
CIRCULAR BREATHING
CIRCULAR SLIDE MOTION
CLAMS
CLEANING OF TROMBONE
CLEFS
COMPETITIVENESS
CONDUCTORS
CONFIDENCE
CONTROL OF EMBOUCHURE
COOL-DOWN
COORDINATION (TONGUE/SLIDE)
CORNERS OF LIP


DAH TONGUING
DAILY ROUTINES
DENTAL PROBLEMS
DETACHED STYLE
DIAPHRAGM
DIAPHRAGM VIBRATO
DOODLE TONGUING
DOUBLE TONGUING
DOUBLING
DRILLS
DRY MOUTH
DYNAMICS


EAR TRAINING
EMBOUCHURE
EMBOUCHURE VISUALIZER
ENDURANCE
ENSEMBLE PLAYING
EQUAL TEMPERAMENT
EUPHONIUM
EXERCISES
EXHALATION
EXPRESSION


F ATTACHMENT VS STRAIGHT HORN
F ATTACHMENT TUNING
FATIGUE
FEAR
FELDENKRAIS METHOD
FLEXIBILITY
FLUTTER TONGUING
FORTISSIMO
FREEDOM


GADGETS AND GIZMOS
GINGIVITIS
GLISSANDOS
GLOTTIS


HA ATTACKS
HARMONIC SERIES
HIGH REGISTER


IMAGING
IMPROVISATION
INDERAL
INHALATION
INJURIES
INSTRUMENT REPAIRS
INTONATION


JAW
JAZZ
JUST INTONATION


KA ATTACKS
LA TONGUING


LEADPIPES
LEGATO
LIP ALIGNMENT
LIP APERTURE
LIP SHAKES
LIP SLURS
LIP TEXTURE
LIP TRILLS
LIP VIBRATO
LONG TONES
LOUD PLAYING
LOW REGISTER
LUNG CAPACITY


MAINTENANCE OF EQUIPMENT
MAINTENANCE OF TECHNIQUE
MEMORIZATION
METRONOME
MIRRORS
MOTIVATION
MOUTHPIECE PLACEMENT
MOUTHPIECE PRACTICING
MOUTHPIECE PRESSURE
MOUTHPIECES
MULTIPHONICS
MULTIPLE TONGUING
MUSICALITY
MUTES


NA TONGUING
NATURAL SLURS
NERVOUSNESS
NOH ARTICULATION
NOSE BREATHING
NUANCES


OPEN SOUND
ORTHODONTIC DEVICES
OVERTONE SERIES
OVERUSE SYNDROM


PEDAL TONES
PIANISSIMO
PITCH
PIVOT SYSTEM
PLAYING BY EAR
POISE
PORTAMENTOS
POSTURE
PRACTICE MUTES
PRACTICE ROUTINES
PRACTICING
PUCKERING OF LIPS


QUALITY OF SOUND
QUITTING
QUIVER IN TONE


RANGE
READING (OF MAGAZINES DURING REHEARSALS)
RECORDINGS
REGISTER CHANGES
RELAXATION
RELEASES
RESONANCE
RESTS (COUNTING) AND (TAKING THEM)
RHYTHM
RHYTHMIC TRAINING
ROTARY BREATHING


SCALES AND ARPEGGIOS
SIGHT READING
SINGING WHILE PLAYING
SLIDE LUBRICANTS
SLIDE SMEARS
SLIDE TECHNIQUE
SLIDE VIBRATO
SLURRING
SMILING OF EMBOUCHURE
SOFT PLAYING
SOLFEGE
SOUND
SPEED OF SLIDE
SPEED OF TONGUE
SPLEAHS
STACCATO STYLE
STRESS
STRING PLAYERS
STYLE
SUPPORT
SYLLABLES


TAH TONGUING
TALENT
TAPE RECORDER
TECHNIQUE
TENOR CLEF
TENOR HORN
TENOR/BASS TROMBONE
TENSION
THAYER VALVE
THROAT PROBLEMS
TIMBRE
TONE COLORS
TONE QUALITY
TONGUING
TRANSPOSITION
TREBLE CLEF
TRILLS
TRIPLE TONGUING
TROMBONE (SELECTION OF)
TUNING
TUNING OF F ATTACHMENT
TUNING TO PIANO


U VOWEL SHAPE
USELESS GADGETS AND GIZMOS
UTILITY ORCHESTRA POSITIONS


VALSALVA PROBLEM
VALVES
VIBRATO
VIDEO CAMERA
VOCALIZATION


WARM-UPS AND WARM-DOWM
WET VS DRY LIP EMBOUCHURE
WHISPER MUTES
WILL TO WIN
WOODWIND PLAYERS
WRIST


XEROXING


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