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Last school year my band performed our first field show in ten years. blaugh We worked continuously and harder then we had the previous year. The field show looked amazing for it being our first time ever doing one. The only issue my section had was with our instruments hitting others. We had to make these spins that involved us turning around into another person. Most of the time we ended up hitting the person next to us on the head. In the winter we discussed about playing baritones instead of trombones in the field show. Most of us were willing to learn how to play our trombone parts on the baritone. I was really looking forward to playing baritone but it turns out my school doesn't have enough baritones. crying We have four baritone players and six trombone players this coming school year so we need a total of ten baritones. I love playing trombone but I wish we could play baritones! It would be a different experience from being frustrated of having to avoid others when going past them. stressed

sweatdrop Does anyone else have this issue?

One thing you could do is tell your band director that your intervals need to be bigger (4 step intervals should be large enough). Switching to Baritone isn't hard I figured out most of the notes and started reading in Treble and Base clef in the short time I had one to learn.

I am a fellow Trombone player and have had similar issues and when I tried to convince them to let me do Baritone for marching band they wouldn't let me do the switch because of crappy baritones that we own, they're from the late 80 and the tuning slides block each other so if you pullout the third valve slide for some note you end up also pulling out the main tuning slide, the best part is that they rattle when you play them especially on the low notes.

Trombones are the instruments of murder.... I'm glad that Trombone is easier to play than Baritone- I mean Euphonium-, where I had issues playing G in the staff.... it was an awkward time for me.