Trombone Champ

The game starts with a warm-up, but I only managed a B on my first try - a rating I actually think was very generous. The first song has one difficulty star out ...

All I want to do is play the game, but I have to write this and work for a living. I personally favour the chaos of 100 percent scroll speed, but I did indeed get an A and enter the colourful champ mode when I knocked it down to 60 percent. During this song, I managed to hit a couple of perfect notes - I must be a virtuoso - and the screen shook as a baseball smashed into it. As I prepared my lips for a rendition of Take Me Out To The Ball Game that would go down in history as one of the greatest, the loading screen told me the uncomfortable fact that two to four spiders - on average - live inside a trombone. The game starts with a warm-up, but I only managed a B on my first try - a rating I actually think was very generous. All of them pale in comparison to the marvel that is Trombone Champ.

Rhythm game Trombone Champ just released on Steam and features many famous classical piececs, complete with trombone playing, baboons, hot dogs and fun!

Become a supporter of Eurogamer and you can view the site completely ad-free, as well as gaining exclusive access to articles, podcasts and conversations that will bring you closer to the team, the stories, and the games we all love. This allows you to easily key out the background and make funny videos!— Holy Wow (🎺TROMBONE CHAMP AVAILABLE NOW!) (@HolyWowStudios) I aced the warm-up which consisted of some basic scales and arpeggios, but other than that I've struggled to get past a B rating on the tracks I have tried. You can sell duplicates of cards for turds. Trombone Champ also doesn't stay within the confines of the usual chromatic scale we're used to hearing in music, so you get to experience all the awful off-key tones you reach. You earn toots for playing tracks, which are then used to buy sacks. Mix that in with the horribly flat notes you can produce and the Mii-esque tromboners and well, you've got a pitch perfect game. If there's two unconnected, successive notes that are quite far away from each other in terms of height, you can leave the key pressed down and slide the cursor to it. Trombones can slide very smoothly through notes, and you can also do that here if you like. I've played piano since I was a kid and even studied some at university, but my efforts have been... Yes, there's a breath meter to contend with too. Trombone Champ aims to emulate every part of playing a trombone.

'Trombone Champ', the world's first trombone-based rhythm music game, launched on Friday (September 16) and is already getting rave reviews.

The music – the music is better. The air I breathe is different. [Minecraft](https://www.nme.com/games/minecraft) has teamed up with [BBC](https://www.nme.com/tag/bbc) documentary series Frozen Planet 2 to create [a series of educational worlds](https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/minecraft-teams-up-with-frozen-planet-to-create-educational-worlds-3314366), with the first one now live. I have embraced the way of the trombone” with another calling it “possibly the best game ever made.” [Steam](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1059990/Trombone_Champ/). My life is different.

The new trombone playing game like Guitar Hero is amazing.

Here’s the reason we’re here: Players of the game have started posting videos of their performances, and it’s a meme waiting to happen, with slide-y, pitchy, off-key versions of songs we know are all over the place. I haven’t tried it yet, but I definitely will, because the challenge is to slide over to the right notes using your mouse. It’s time for you to become a trombone champ by playing …

Trombone Champ is taking over social media with videos of its delightfully absurd gameplay. The horrendous performances are an absolute joy to behold.

Everything is excellent, and for PC Gamer to throw their weight behind this game during the same year that saw The rankings ranging from “Perfecto!” to the aforementioned “Nasty!” The curtains, the baboons, the card-collection of famous trombone players, which include (thank god) Melba Liston. Trombone Champ is played by sliding your mouse up and down to find the approximate pitch of the note, and then pressing down to articulate. It is, however, the absolute perfect word for this game.) [to peg myself as part of a niche group of rhythm game nerds](https://www.themarysue.com/what-is-taiko-no-tatsujin-and-why-should-you-be-excited-for-the-new-one/), but this time, it turns out it’s definitely not just me. Apparently, this same video was shared within the PC Gamer Slack channel, where numerous coworkers instantly purchased the game for themselves.