24 Sight-reading Studies for Trombone Book 3

Dan Jenkins

Notes by Dan Jenkins:
1. I recommend playing the relevant scale through before each study.
2. The 'old-fashioned' rule applies i.e. that an accidental only applies to its own bar, in the following bar the note reverts to the key signature.
3. These are designed to be sight reading exercisies, full of traps and changes - expect the unexpected! But they can also be treated as studies to be worked on.
4. For reasons unclear even to myself, the range is always between high Bb and low E, the traditional tenor range.
5. The reason for the 24 studies is of course to have a piece in every key and to heighten awareness of the harmonic relations within these keys.
6. Levels of difficulty: 1-10; taking into account key signature and length of piece.

Notes for Book 3
1. The studies in this book are slightly harder than those in Book 1 and 2. In general they are also longer. Therefore, this book can be treated as a more advanced study book than the first two.
2. I emphasize the word study as these are to be more than just one-off sight-reading exercises. A common format in the studies in all the books is the recurrence of the opening bars towards the end. This helps serve to make the studies into pieces of music, to be worked on, rather than just a relentless series of what's coming next? sight-reading exercises.
3. In this book there are 6 pastiches: studies in the styles of various composers. These are Bruckner, Sullivan, and 4 contemporary composers: John Adams, Derek Bourgeois, Arvo Pärt and John Williams. At all times I've tried to keep these pieces as sight-reading studies rather than getting carried away with simply trying to reproduce others' styles