They gave you a string instrument - I got a violin. Gave it to me. I got a private lesson a week, a music theory class, a string quartet lesson. Then we all got together for the orchestra. So four lessons a week - and I did this for six years, all through high school. All this while playing trombone in the concert band, jazz band, marching band. And singing in the a cappella chorus and drama club. And on the side, I was in two rock bands, hack garage bands.
Quotes about trombone (15 Quotes)
I was familiar with her music, and I had complete faith in her ability. The piece is well-suited to the instrument. It exploits the many faces of the symphony lyrical, fanfare and playful. It is very approachable. I think the trombone community will embrace it. I will be very surprised if it doesn't get other performances.
They had too many classical piano players. I didn't have their chops. I couldn't keep up with them. But they also had a brass scholarship for trombone and they didn't have any trombone players. So I knew I could get that one
The only thing that ultimately matters is to eat an ice-cream cone, play a slide trombone, plant a small tree, good God, now you're free.
Every time I talk about this, I say: when the singer is singing, he must be respected, you must be able to hear what he's saying. You can't put a trombone and a drum up there, and a microphone on the drum, microphones on everybody. You can't hear what he's saying.
The thing that influenced me most was the way Tommy played his trombone. . . . It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin not sounding like them, but playing the voice like those instrumentalists.
When I started out, all I did was play my trombone.
You can be in Tokyo or Alberta at four in the morning in your hotel and you can still practice if you feel like it. A trombone cannot do that at four in the morning.
A frisky spirit makes my trombone sing.
These kids have the talent and the ability to make their dreams come true. I'm excited they've been given the opportunity to show others how different and unique the trombone can be.
I played trombone for 10 minutes, and then I was in an accordion band in school for even less.
They were missing a trombone player and (Hughes) was hoping to have the chance to fill in, but unfortunately it didn't happen that night.
It was my idea to make my voice work in the same way as a trombone or violin - not sounding like them, but 'playing' the voice like those instruments
I try not to keep in mind what's going on currently in music. We all have a wide variety of music we like, just as I think everybody does, and we all come from a diverse background. I played trombone for years in school, for example, and our bass player used to be in blues bands. I just try to keep in my mind what I think is good music. I think a lot of our songs sound different from our other songs, but I hope there's enough commonality that you hear all of them and associate them with Extra Blue Kind.
The group, composed of a trombone, French horn, tuba and two trumpets, performs pieces from the classics to show tunes to Dixieland to original compositions.