Vining: Rangesongs for Bass Trombone

Range for Bass Trombone in Rangesongs:

Rangesongs helps you develop your high and low ranges by using target notes in a musical context to encourage you to move your air properly.

Rangesongs contains 105 original etudes, each with a specific target note. Practice the etudes with the target note in the range you wish to develop, moving the target note higher or lower as your range improves. This allows you to systematically develop your range and endurance over time, using musical phrasing as your tool.

Rangesongs provides a systematic way to build range and endurance slowly but surely over time.

The idea for Rangesongs came from playing Bordogni/Rochut Melodious Etudes in Tenor Clef. Doing this works pretty well because it transposes all the etudes up a perfect fifth; however, it creates some problems as well. Some of the etudes end up being too high and some are too low; some are too long and some arent quite long enough. Rangesongs solves these problems: every song is one page long no more than about a minute of playing. Every song has a designated target note and never goes above this target.

Note: the content for Rangesongs for Tenor Trombone and Rangesongs for Bass Trombone is the same except the octaves have been changed to accommodate the respective ranges for each instrument.

Trombonist David Vining is currently associate professor at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, Arizona. Previous teaching appointments include the University of Kansas and the Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music. Mr. Vining has a Bachelor of Music Performance degree from Florida State University, where he studied with John Drew, and a Masters of Music Performance degree from Bowling Green State University (OH), where he studied with Paul Hunt. Other important influences to his teaching and playing include: John Marcellus, William Cramer, Arnold Jacobs, Ralph Sauer and Eric Carlson.

Mr. Vining is a popular clinician, presenting clinics and workshops throughout the country as a clinician for Conn-Selmer Musical Instruments. He is a certified member of Andover Educators, a consortium of music educators dedicated to preserving and enhancing the careers of musicians through accurate anatomical information and somatic awareness as applied to music-making. Through a unique and powerful tool called Body Mapping, Professor Vining helps students in all disciplines avoid injury and become better musicians.