Major
Scales with Harmonization
This is a great thing
to do every day to tune up your ears and your trombone. Play along
with the MIDI file below and hear how your sound fits the chord
on each note. These are slow (m.m.=60), thus they allow you to
really listen carefully for intonation.
*As a great Warm-up, try
"buzzing" the scales in the mouthpiece along with the
piano accompaniment below!
The play-along will start
with Bb Major. It will ascend 2 octaves, repeating Bb at the halfway
point. It will then repeat the tonic again at the top before it
starts a 2-octave descent (again repeating the Bb halfway down).
This may sound more confusing
than it really is. After a few tries, you'll have it memorized.
Here's the pattern:
You'll simply work your
way up chromatically through all 12 tones of the octave. If you
need to refresh your memory on these scales, click
here to view all of the major scales.
Once you've got them all
memorized, play along with the piano and try to stay perfectly
in tune. In the following sound clip, one scale follows another
chromatically and in tempo:
If you'd rather isolate
individual scales, rather than play them all consecutively, here
they are listed one at a time. The pattern remains as shown above: