Play along trombone duets

These are “11 Duets for Trombone” by composer Carl Henning as featured in Selected Duets for Trombone or Baritone, Volume 1. I’ve recorded each duet back-to-back with panned L/R audio so that you can play along with the accompanying part using only one earbud.

Whenever I can, I will play through this selection of duets (and the rest of the book) with my high school private lesson students. It’s a great end-of-practice sight reading activity and one that can be re-visited each week to demonstrate each student’s progress in their abilities. I wholeheartedly believe they should be learned and enjoyed by all beginning trombonists. Enjoy!

Bonetown podcast with Michael Razo of The Suffers

I’ve never met The Suffers’ trombonist Razo in person, so this chat was especially fun as we have many mutual friends throughout Houston. Listen as we talk about about growing up playing trombone in school bands, higher education, teaching philosophies, The Suspects, Clouseaux and living through a pandemic.