Fundamentals of Trombone Playing
available as four separate packages ($75.00 each) or as an entire series ($199.00 – Best Value!)
Package 1: Embouchure, Breath Setting Embouchure, Compression, and Tuning Slide Placement (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: Sounds, Corners, Fingers, 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: Endurance, Range, Single and Double Tonguing (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
Package 4: Triple Tonguing, Warming Up, and Warming Down (Ep. 13-15)
- How to create clean and accurate triple tonguing
- A "behind the scenes" look at Steve's daily warm up routine
- Effective ways to warm down after a hard day of playing
Prentiss Hobbs
Prentiss Hobbs is the Principal Trombonist in the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra and Symphony Orchestra Augusta. He is also Second Trombonist in the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra.
Hobbs has also held positions with the Baton Rouge Symphony, the Ohio Light Opera, the Tuscaloosa Symphony, and the Knoxville Symphony, as well as one-year positions in the Alabama Symphony and the Nashville Symphony. He is also a substitute musician with the Louisville Symphony and the Grant Park Summer Symphony in Chicago.
Prentiss is also in demand as a recording session artist and has played bass and tenor trombone on over a thousand recordings. Some of his highlights include recording with Garth Brooks, Faith Hill, Ben Folds, Wynona Judd, Alan Jackson, The Nashville Symphony, and many others.
Prentiss is also in demand as a recording session artist and has played bass and tenor trombone on over a thousand recordings. Some of his highlights include recording with Garth Brooks, Faith Hill, Ben Folds, Wynona Judd, Alan Jackson, The Nashville Symphony, and many others.
Hobbs has also played on many movie soundtracks, including the Last Witch Hunter and Hoodwinked, and video games such as Halo, Madden Football and Star Wars: (Jedi: Fallen Order, Squadrons, Knights of the Fallen Empire). He is listed on the AMG website with close to fifty credits to his name.
Prentiss Hobbs’ first teacher was his father, David Hobbs, who at the beginnings of his musical path started him down the road to success with his vast knowledge of music and his wonderful ability to teach. He later continued his studies with Larry Campbell at L.S.U. and Dan Drill at the University of Alabama. Both of these fine teachers helped him to become the musician he is today.
Prentiss Hobbs’ first teacher was his father, David Hobbs, who at the beginnings of his musical path started him down the road to success with his vast knowledge of music and his wonderful ability to teach. He later continued his studies with Larry Campbell at L.S.U. and Dan Drill at the University of Alabama. Both of these fine teachers helped him to become the musician he is today.
