Chris Leeson

About the Author:

Trombone Quest was created by Chris Leeson.  Chris currently teaches Band, Strings, and Choir at Shoreline Community Middle School in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.  He has been playing in the band since the young age of eight years old.  He has played horn professionally and marched one year each in the Colts Drum and Bugle Corps and the Phantom Regiment Drum and Bugle Corps. 

Chris is passionate about finding news ways to encourage young people to pick up an instrument and discover how much fun learning an instrument can be.  He created this website with the hope that it would provide the tools and motivation for young trombonists to develop the fundamental skills for great musicianship.

The American Band College

This website was created in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Music Degree in Conducting from the American Band College in Ashton, Oregon, USA.

Content on this Website:

This website includes content and ideas from the following resources:

• The 2014 Clinic at the American Band College by Lynne Jackson
  
• The 2014 Clinic at the American Band College by Michael Levine
• Whitener, Scott, and Cathy L. Whitener. A Complete Guide to Brass: Instruments and Pedagogy. Belmont: Schirmer, 1997. Print
• "J. J. Johnson." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 22 July 2014. Web. 30 July 2014. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._J._Johnson>.
• "Joseph Alessi." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 07 May 2014. Web. 30 July 2014. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Alessi>.
• "Megumi Kanda." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 13 July 2014. Web. 30 July 2014. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megumi_Kanda>.
• "Urbie Green." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation, 24 July 2014. Web. 30 July 2014. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Urbie_Green>.

The following public domain and Creative Commons images were used and modified:
Full copy of Creative Commons Licenses available here and here.

• "Forest Background Art 2" by Ramtam (Bertram) -  http://opengameart.org/content/forest-background-art-2
• "Forest Background Art" by Ramtam (Bertram) - http://opengameart.org/sites/default/files/environment_forestbackground1-1_0.png
• "Background02a_2" by RubberDuck - http://opengameart.org/sites/default/files/background02a_2.png
• "sunsetintheswamp" by JAP - http://opengameart.org/sites/default/files/sunsetintheswamp.png
• "gate" by JAP - http://opengameart.org/sites/default/files/gate.png
• "Old World Map" by Vil0gy - http://opengameart.org/content/old-world-map
• "Basic Gems Free" by YinakoSGA - http://opengameart.org/content/basic-gems-icon-set
  
• "Unknown Horizons Natural Resource Deposits and Mines" by Unknown Horizons (Chris Oelmueller, stubb) - http://opengameart.org/content/natural-resource-deposits-and-mines-unknown-horizons-2d
• "Treasure Chest" by Q_x - http://opengameart.org/content/tresure-chest
• "Large Nature Background" by Julien - http://opengameart.org/content/large-nature-background
• "Background Art" by Mind Chamber - http://opengameart.org/content/background-art
• "bg" by Redshrike - http://opengameart.org/content/tower-defense-prototyping-assets-4-monsters-some-tiles-a-background-image
• "Dagrons5" by Redshrike - http://opengameart.org/content/rpg-enemies-11-dragons
• "RPG Signs" by Nikke - http://opengameart.org/content/sign-pack
• "Dragon Eye Avatar" by Soreiya (Nicole), http://www.deviantart.com/#/art/Dragon-Eye-Avatar-34518874?hf=1 (Not modified)
  
• "Rainbow Circular AB" by Andrzej Barabasz (Chepry) - Own work. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rainbow_Circular_AB.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Rainbow_Circular_AB.jpg
• "Marble blocks" by Titus Tscharntke - http://www.public-domain-image.com/public-domain-images-pictures-free-stock-photos/textures-and-patterns-public-domain-images-pictures/rock-stone-texture-public-domain-images-pictures/marble-blocks.jpg. Licensed under Public domain via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marble_blocks.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Marble_blocks.jpg
• "Trombone CG Bach42AG" by Original uploader was FlamM at en.wikipedia - Transferred from en.wikipedia. Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Trombone_CG_Bach42AG.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Trombone_CG_Bach42AG.jpg
  

Slide Position photographs by Steve Graves

All Sprites (characters) were generated using MMORPG Maker XB's generator:
http://www.mmorpgmakerxb.com/p/characters-sprites-generator#

Special Thanks to:  Michael Tramm - Advice and feedback