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I though swapping from marching tenor bone to bass bone would be an easy transition but not really and I need helpppp 😛

Here's the things that I'm struggling with (idk what y'all call these things so I'm going to clarify every term I use):

For the record, we unfortunetly don't do actual shows so I'll only ask for help on parade stuff

During cadences when only drumline plays, we do these things we call horn flairs, which is where we move our instruments along to the beat. With a regular tenor trombone, the main tuning slide part goes inbetween your body and your arm and you hold the slide with your right arm, and it's pretty comfortable. The thing is with a bass, that little tuning slide chunk is a lot thicker, and my arm is constantly at like a 30 degree angle when I try to do what I regularly do, and the rest of the horn is jagged when pointing outwards as well. Making it really uncomfortable

During state fair and football games we have a command of 'parade rest' which is where we put our left arm behind our back, our left leg steps out a little, and we look down at a slight angle. During that, tenor bones usually just let the horn hand down of their right side, upside down, with the slide horizonal, with all of the weight on your hand. This isn't really a problem for short rests, but during longer ones, it feels like my thumb is going to become dislocated from the weight of my bass bone and I REALLY need a different way to hold it.

Also since I'm like the first person to ever march bass bone in the ensemble, NONE of our music has a bass bone part, so I do think it's a good call to be adopted by the sousa part, since for some reason when I try to play high, even with a tenor mouthpiece, on my bass, my chops abandon me.

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I kinda messed up in the comment section of another post because apparently this articulation means two different things in classical vs jazz notation. I'm a classical musician and I don't know if it turned out as arrogant, but I'm sorry, and have a question. Just so I don't make this mistake again, are there any symbols that have this same thing? (Btw in classical music, this is called an unstress, and is the opposite of an accent)