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Challenges In Beginning Trombone Pedagogy, Robert Sobnosky
Challenges In Beginning Trombone Pedagogy, Robert Sobnosky
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
The development of strong fundamental skills is essential for success on any instrument. Beginning wind players must be carefully monitored so they can develop the good playing habits and basic skills that form the foundations of strong musicianship. Each instrument presents its own unique challenges. The trombone could be considered the most unique of the beginning band instruments due to size, slide, and technique. These challenges can lead to a number of problems that music educators must be able to recognize and correct. For this project, six music educators with experience teaching beginning trombone students were interviewed about common problems …
Fundamentals For Horn Students, Kierstin Jenkins
Fundamentals For Horn Students, Kierstin Jenkins
Williams Honors College, Honors Research Projects
Many band directors find teaching horn to be intimidating. Through extensive research, this project has compiled some of the best exercises to help horn players improve and explains the rationale behind them. The written work contains information and descriptions about the different fundamentals that horn students need in order to be successful and develop good tone quality. The appendix includes examples of these exercises so that an educator has resources to teach his/her horn students. The fundamentals included are: breathing, buzzing, long tones, flow studies, lip slurs, and pitch.