April 16-23, 2023
ITW’s 20th anniversary is the perfect time to play your trombone, share it with others online or in-person, and have fun. Everyone is welcome!
Commemorate ITW anytime during April. If you let us know how you’re celebrating, you might appear on the infamous ITW map.
Thank you to Sandra Boynton (!) who gets us in the mood for fun every year...
Are you creating an ITW event or resource?
- Would you like to use the logo for your program or materials? When you submit information about your event/resource, please request it.
Do you need sheet music? We have some (and it’s free thanks to generous people).
- Exercises from Will Baker
- Bordogni/Rochut Project from Toby Oft
- Trios by David Caldwell and Colby Norton
- Quartets by Nick Adams, Spencer Schaffer, and Patrick Cooper Sullivan
- Ukraine’s beautiful national anthem 🇺🇦 arranged by Christopher Bill
- Octets. Seven legendary BoneWeek Fanfares composed by Brad Edwards
- BandMusic PDF Library and IMSLP (International Music Score Library Project)
- Note: You do not need to know how to read music to participate in ITW.
- Another note: If you don’t know how to play the trombone yet, now is a perfect time to begin.
Do you need inspiration? Here are some ideas.
- Host an impromptu garage concert for your neighborhood while practicing safe social-distancing.
- Go outside and be still for a while. Meditate on trombone goodness.
- Send birthday greetings via a phone call or via a video.
- Practice a scale, warm-up, or exercise each day during ITW. We like to play in a different mode-a-day: Ionian, Dorian, Phrygian, Lydian, Mixolydian, Aeolian, and Locrian.
- Collaborate on a recording.
- Play a thought in all the keys.
- Give your trombone and mouthpiece a spring cleaning with Aaron Eckert’s helpful guidance.
- Share a trombone painting or drawing.
- Sit with Sarah Jo on Classic 107 and learn about a collaboration in Winnipeg. More than 40 trombonists debuted Kristofferson’s piece during ITW.
- Steep in Trent Hamilton’s Introduction to the Trombone Family.
- Watch Super Bone’s ITW20 interview with Eric Budd, a multi-instrumentalist from Australia.
- Re-visit your well-worn copy of Arban’s Famous Method for Trombone.
- Call someone special and play a jazz standard, like Blue Skies, just because.
- Share your recital video.
- Learn to use music notation software and arrange something for a trombone-playing friend.
- Begin and end each day with a very looooong long tone.
- Soak up some rich trombone history with Will Kimball.
- Do a trombone dance-of-joy through your neighborhood.
- Listen to this beautiful NPR TinyDesk Concert with Ryan Keberle and Catharsis.
- Write a poem about your faithful trombone stand.
- Tell your headphones to play trombone music.
- Bask in the glory of Opera Excerpts! Roger Cutts created a legendary collection.
- Ryan Keberle and Wycliffe Gordon shared free educational resources and videos.
- Watch Christian Lindberg’s “Chick’a’Bone Checkout” with Charlie Vernon and Columbus State University.
- Enjoy Hex Files by James Kazik performed by The Stephen F. Austin State University Trombone Octet conducted by Deb Scott.
- Post a favorite trombone-related quotation.
- Share a moody photo of your plunger mute.
Carpe Slidem!