TromboneModule IX Riff Visualizer

Module IX

Riff Visualizer

Feed in a melody. See multiple ways to play it — efficient, legato, pedagogical, F-optimized.

MouthpieceTuning slideBellRotor & F-wrapThumb triggerHand slideHand braceWater key

press play — the slide moves through your line

feed in a melody

7 notes · type names, or hum a line above

Most efficient path

6 positions of slide travel · 4 lip slurs

slide path

1
2
3
4
5
6
7

B♭,

1·p2

D

4·p3

F

1·p3

B♭

1·p4

slur

D'

1·p5

slur

F'

1·p6

slur

B♭'

1·p8

slur

Same notes, four different journeys across the horn. Efficient keeps the slide quiet; legato hunts for lip slurs so the line connects; F-optimizedbrings the attachment in to shorten the leaps. There is rarely one “right” fingering — there is the one that serves the music in front of you.