![]() ![]() But if you are willing to take the plunge, consider my book Alto Trombone Savvy since I teach you positions using your ear rather than exclusively memorizing dots on the page. If you are a tenor trombone player, learning the alto will require work. Now, most if not all of those players are classical players, so to be fair, they haven’t spent much time working on playing by ear and may not care. They also have a difficult time getting off the printed page to play by ear. My experience is that players locked into alto clef have a very difficult time reading music in bass or any other clef. I think that reading exclusively in alto clef is a horrible handicap for alto trombone players. Learn that middle C is in fourth position in the fourth overtone and know the positions of every other note in concert as well. So if you plan to play alto in a tenor trombone setting, I recommend the same practice for you. I’m a tenor trombone player who happens to play alto, if that makes sense. And, yes, I read tenor clef pretty well, again because of so much of the standard tenor trombone literature being in tenor clef. Perhaps to cut down on ledger lines, but then again, my range on alto is the same as my range on tenor. I don’t know why the alto got stuck with alto clef. ![]() In fact, I struggle reading alto clef! (Don’t tell anyone I admitted that.) I needed to play off the same music as the tenor trombones. If I were to play gigs on the alto, I couldn’t very well expect people to give me parts in alto clef. My bass clef edition assumption came from the fact that, from day one playing the alto, I’ve treated it as a concert instrument reading bass clef. ![]()
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