Oriented towards the jazz and commercial tenor or bass trombone player, this book is a set of 47 one-page "units," each with a few short exercises on each concept. Unlike many technique books, this book does not just present a series of large etudes with many technical problems. Instead, each unit focuses on a specific trombonistic technical issue (lip-break articulations, glissando, chord progressions, etc). It also contains a nice section on "doodle" tonguing. The online Audio contains recorde...

• Introduction
• The authors
• Controlling the air stream
• Overtone series
• Playing fast
• clean and in tune
• Alternate positions
• Lip-break articulations
• Overtone chart
• Arpeggio Patterns
• Double and triple tonguing
• Development of da-dl-a-dl
• Development choices
• Playing very high notes
• Playing very low notes
• Playing very long notes/circular breathing
• Playing more than one note
• The buzz portamento/glissando
• Vibrato
• F-attachment(ism)
• Unusual sounds ...