pBone Stripes
with Liam Kirkman
- Sample Lesson Free
- Stripe 1
- How to assemble the pBone trombone
- Basic precautions to take with your new trombone
- How to take apart your pBone
- Learn posture and how to hold your trombone
- Learn how to hold the trombone slide
- Breathing in trombone playing
- Play your first note!
- Practice buzzing on the mouthpiece
- Practice playing long notes on the trombone
- Stripe 2
- Understanding "the beat" in music
- Playing notes in time!
- Understanding "pitch"
- Stripe 3
- Let's move the slide
- Learn 3rd and 5th positions on the trombone
- How to separate notes on the trombone
- Let's play a call & response game
- Stripe 4
- Introduction to Stripe 4
- How to change pitch on the trombone
- Watch Liam play a tune on the trombone
- Let's learn that tune
- Let's play the full tune together
- Improvisation demo
- Improvising lesson
Lesson plan (0h 33m)
In partnership with The British Trombone Society and pBone trombones, we're happy to bring you this course for beginners that will definitely up your game on pBone trombone.
Featuring Liam Kirkman, president of the BTS and trombonist with Lady Gaga, Radiohead, Michael Buble, these lessons take you through the 4 pBone "STRIPES", from unpacking your new instrument to handling it, learning how to breathe, blowing some notes, playing a tune and even improvising!
As you progress through the levels, you'll learn all the fundamental skills the right way, learning faster and avoiding bad habits.
This course is perfect for kids who have just been given their first pBone. So grab your pBone, subscribe to this course and you'll be ready to play some notes.
First 'Stripe' on getting started with your pBone is free! Go to pbone.co.uk/learn-to-play-trombone to access 9 free lessons and a discount.