TMEA All-State Etudes

As some of you may know, my husband, Patrick (who is also a trombonist!), is from Texas. He had the idea for us to record the TMEA (Texas Music Educators Association) All-State Band audition etudes for trombone. The purpose of us sharing these etude videos is to provide high school students who are auditioning a reference they can use in their preparation. Too often in music education children only get a sound and musical reference from their peers. I believe that is one of the reasons people take so long to master an instrument. (I am still working on it everyday)! Victor Wooten talks a lot about this concept in his book, The Music Lesson. In elementary music classes, kids only hear other elementary students playing instruments, therefore they never excel beyond that level. In junior high, they are exposed to a slightly higher level of musically performing peers, and so on. In a small effort to break this cycle, I hope these videos can be of use to young aspiring trombonists.

We have posted these videos on our YouTube channel, SlideShow! In addition to our fun trombone ensemble videos that we love making, we also want to make it a goal to promote music education. Here is my interpretation of one of the 2018-2019 TMEA Etudes:

To see the rest of the etude videos we made and more you can visit our YouTube channel here:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI1z7hPImjFYeInJpPMZR0w

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