Brad Edwards's Bass Trombone Craft connects technical development with musical expression through exercises and etudes written specifically for bass trombone. Rather than adapting a tenor trombone routine, it addresses the instrument's valve technique, range, and slide coordination within a progressive course. Edwards identifies high school and college players as its main audience, while also offering material that experienced players can revisit.
The 185-page book moves from shorter exercises to more substantial musical studies. Scale and arpeggio work sits alongside changing keys, syncopation, compound meter, leaps, and increasingly involved valve passages. These topics give players a way to develop rhythmic accuracy and facility without treating tone and phrasing as separate concerns. Additional material addresses legato tonguing, multiple tonguing, tuning, accuracy, and a sing-buzz-play approach. For a teacher building a bass trombone curriculum, its combination of focused exercises and musical applications makes it useful both for individual assignments and for longer-term study.
Brad Edwards's Bass Trombone Craft connects technical development with musical expression through exercises and etudes written specifically for bass trombone. Rather than adapting a tenor trombone routine, it addresses the instrument's valve technique, range, and slide coordination within a progressive course. Edwards identifies high school and college players as its main audience, while also offering material that experienced players can revisit.
The 185-page book moves from shorter exercises to more substantial musical studies. Scale and arpeggio work sits alongside changing keys, syncopation, compound meter, leaps, and increasingly involved valve passages. These topics give players a way to develop rhythmic accuracy and facility without treating tone and phrasing as separate concerns. Additional material addresses legato tonguing, multiple tonguing, tuning, accuracy, and a sing-buzz-play approach. For a teacher building a bass trombone curriculum, its combination of focused exercises and musical applications makes it useful both for individual assignments and for longer-term study.