#4 - Improving Intonation, and New Tools

December 1, 2003 - Revised August 24, 2006
Links Added July 9, 2008

Please click here for this article.

It is the December 2003 Article of the Month for the wonderful and thorough Bowtie Brass website, now hosted by MilitaryMusician.com.

Here are several other intonation resources:

Internet Articles and Interactive Websites

• Play-along Materials can help intonation simply through work with accompaniments
• Interval Chart - Aebersold, Jamey
• Intonation - Edwards, Brad
• Drone Tones - Edwards, Brad (interactive)
• Ear Training and Jazz, Exercises the Student Can Do Alone - Ervin, Tom
• Ear Training and Jazz, Exercises With A Friend - Ervin, Tom
• Measurement of exhaled air effects in the pitch of wind instruments - by Fuks, Leonardo
• An Introduction to Historical Tunings - Gann, Kyle
• Just Intonation Explained (includes sound examples) - Gann, Kyle
• Bordogni (arr. Rochut) Vocalise Piano Accompaniments - Gibson, Tom (interactive)
• Chromatic Scale Play-along - Gibson, Tom (interactive)
• Ear Training Midi Files (scroll down to the yellow panels) - Gibson, Tom (interactive)
• Major Scales with Harmonization - Gibson, Tom (interactive)
• 6 Part Warm Up & Technical Routine - Gibson, Tom (interactive)
• Understanding Brass Instrument Intonation - Matlick, Eldon
• The Musical Intervals Tutor - Salocks, Madeline (interactive)
• Tuning Systems - Schmidt-Jones, Catherine
• Pythagorean Tuning and Medieval Polyphony - Schulter, Margo
• Handbook for Acoustic Ecology (includes sound examples) - Truax, Barry (ed.)
• The Overtone Series - Tucker, Joey
• Do you have a slide position chart that will help me find the right place to put the slide for notes on the trombone? - Yeo, Douglas

Product Websites (books with play-along CDs)

• 15 Minute Warm-Up Routine - by Michael Davis (see his website for more)
• 20 Minute Warm-Up Routine - by Michael Davis (see his website for more)
• Brass Player's Warm-Up & Practice Guide - by John Gage
• Breakfast: Intonation Practice for Trombonists - by David Schwartz
• Intonation Repair Tool (currently out of print) - by Thomas Kociela
• The Intonation Tutor - by Michael Keener, Ph.D.
• The Tuning CD - by Richard A. Schwartz
• TuneUp: Basic Training, Boot Camp, and Trainer - by Stephen Colley

Software

• Aural Training and Music Theory Software - free downloads

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