Fundamentals of Tuba Playing
available as three separate packages ($75.00 each) or as an entire series ($199.00 – Best Value!)
Package 1: Setup, Embouchure, Sound, and Warming Up (Pitch Bending) (Ep. 1-4)
- Setting the Trumpet on your face
- How breath and the embouchure create compression
- Achieving a solid pitch center and creating your best sound
- Proper tuning slide placement to maintain a relaxed approach
Package 2: Tuning, Fingers, Tonguing, and Flexibility (Ep. 5-8)
- Determining the best approach to your sound
- The role of "corners" and how to play relaxed
- Hand placement and finger dexterity
- Working on the skill of flexibility
Package 3: Range, Endurance, and Sightreading (Ep. 9-12)
- Steps to improve endurance
- Approaching the upper register - how to increase range
- The method to practicing clean and accurate single and double tonguing
Neil Konouchi
In addition to recording sessions, she holds positions as Principal Horn of the Nashville Opera and the Gateway Chamber Orchestra, 3rd Horn of the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra and performs frequently with the Nashville Symphony Orchestra. She has been a featured artist and clinician for international and regional conferences.
Jennifer holds degrees from Western Illinois University and Middle Tennessee State University, and studied at the University of Southern California with Vincent DeRosa. She joined the faculty as the horn instructor at Lipscomb University in 2019.
Some of Jennifer’s recording credits include:
Greyhound, My Little Pony: The Movie, Space Force, Fargo, Texas Rising, Jedi Temple Challenge, and Lost in Space.
Minecraft, Fortnite, Call of Duty (Black Ops 3, 4, Cold War, Infinite Warfare, Modern Warfare, WWII), Destiny 2, Halo, Madden NFL (18, 19, 20), The Last of Us, Marvel’s Spider-Man, Halo, FIFA: (18,19), and Star Wars: (Jedi: Fallen Order, Squadrons).
