For the younger player, or for the beginning jazz player of any age, here are a number of exercises and activities that you or your students can do with friends. They will all help in ear training, jazz improvisation and general musicianship.
Author: Tom Ervin
Ear Training and Jazz, Exercises
Students Can Do Alone
For the younger player, or for the beginning jazz player of any age, here are a number of exercises and activities that you or your students can do alone. They will all help in ear training, jazz improvisation and general musicianship.
Teaching Jazz Trombonists
Here’s a re-posting of something I put out this summer and had a few requests to reissue. This is free, use it as you wish, give me credit if possible. Skip it if you have no interest.
“How should a teacher (college, trombone) approach the student whose primary interest is jazz?”
Preparing for College Auditions
Here’s a re-posting (to the trombone-list) of something from last year, for students preparing auditions for college. Or scholarships. Or transfers, or even Grad school. It’s a bit long, sorry if it clutters your mail, but it is seasonal. Download it, copy it, share it as you wish. Tom Ervin, University of Arizona.
If You Practice….
Let us discuss the benefits that come from focused practice, and the need for such practice by any trombonist who is ambitious, or is considering a musical career. This article was originally submitted to the trombone list in September 1996. The list also holds many fine posts on structuring and optimizing practice time.