So this is sheet music for trombone, you can tell by the slide position suggestions above certain notes. I assume they expect the player to have an F attachment, because 0 position is F, however the note is G, so they would need to press down the trigger to hit it (I think , it’s been a moment since I’ve played a horn with an F attachment). Some of those symbols I’m not as familiar with.
Maybe the joke is they play the trombone, which intrinsically is a joke of an instrument.
It looks similar to a fragment of a minuet from Brahms. I recognized it from an elementary study book of mine (Suzuki vol. 2 for violin). It gave me nostalgia and I had to find it…
So, because it’s in an elementary study book (assuming it is easy for trombone as well), maybe the joke is that when practicing alone you go for easy things that you like instead of what you should be practicing.
Whole piece for reference:
That is it, but my joke is only about the face in the middle of the picture.
You know, violin makes more sense- half of those slurs make 0 sense on trombone.
That’s not trombone, that sheet music is treble clef, trombones are bass clef.
I don’t see where the post shows treble clef. I’m still on the fence on the slurs, although I could be mixing up glissandos.
You may be referring to the comment, but that wasn’t what I was referring to.
You can slur any 2 notes on a trombone with good tonguing and a fast hand.
On a trombone, you always tongue with “Ta” and “Ka” sounds for a good articulation, but when you slur with notes that have different positions you tongue with “Da” and “Ga” sounds instead. During the brief moment where your air isn’t moving you snap your hand to the next note’s position, and the result sounds similar to slurring between fingerings on a trumpet.
Need to find me a trombone player for a good tonguing and a fast hand
And now that understand why trombonists get all the girls.
What about those 4 and 0 over the Es? Do they make sense for trombone?
Because for violin they look like fingering hints. You can make that E with either the 4th finger on the A string or with no fingers on the E strings. You can see the same 4s on my picture. I think my book wanted to use this piece to teach when to use the 4th finger and when the empty string.
The trombone starts at 1st position (slide all the way in) in my experience, so yeah you’re probably right about the marks being for violin, where I presume 0 means open/no fingering?
Yes, they do. In that case, no fingers on the E string to make an E
I have a King trigger trombone in storage that I haven’t played in a couple of decades and change. I kind of want to go get it and give this a shot to see if I get the joke. But that may be more effort than I’m willing to put in.
I’ve been playing trombone for 23 years. There is no 0th position.
Besides seeing a lil face here I don’t get the joke :c
You got the joke, it was just the little face
YIPPEE!! 🎉
Anyone wanna tell me?
Its just the face in the middle of the image
I don’t get it
there is a face in the middle of the picture, and it is starring into my soul and judging me
Something, something, after Taco Bell.
