Most fun tuba songs to blast out?

[Cameron Gates]

Cameron,

Where can we hear "Deathtree"?

BTW, How's the 606 working?

Doc

The Marine Band used to do Deathtree every Easter. That stopped around 1996. The only things I remember from my first years in the band are listening to our since-retired principle tuba player Tom Lyckberg rip that piece a new one each and every time he played it. Holy stinking cow could that guy come unglued on that tune. As far as I know there are no recordings of it. It would be illegal and dangerous to distribute this piece anyway. Children under 6 should be kept away. No small pieces to choke on, just a constant possiblilty of decapitation.

606 = sweet.

Cameron Gates

[Charlie Goodman]

I think Night on Bald Mountain is probably my favorite, but I also really agree with the mention of Variations on a Korean Folk Song... the descending dotted half notes are really powerful at the end.

[Tubadan]

I'm surprised there are no votes for Holst 2nd Suite in F, last movement... something about the Dargason makes me smile . I think marches make great blasting songs (usually during the trio.)

[Tom Holtz]

Ahhhhhhh... where shall we begin... oh yes, band rep.

Grainger - Lincolnshire Posy, movt. 5, and Marching Song Of Democracy

Shostakovich - Festive Overture

Dvorak - Carnaval Overture

Reed - Russian Christmas Music

Teike - Alte Kameraden

Chambers - Boys Of The Old Brigade

King - Invictus

Fillmore - Circus Bee (Is this a Fillmore march? Not sure--I only know it leaves a stain.)

Tchaik - Mazeppa

Tom Knox - Armed Forces Medley. NOTHING sounds better on tired, ratty chops than the ol' Armed Forces Medley.

[JCradler]

Definitely, Mazeppa, although it's Lizst who penned that gem(still thinking back to that recording session- woodwinds? Inaudible. Tubas- having wayyy too much fun. ) Also need to add Cuban Overture by Gershwin- some meaty stuff in there as well.
Gotta love the Pines of Rome, Gallant Seventh(breakup strain), John Williams "Adventures on Earth"(E.T.)
Deathtree? too much work, no payoff...I know Cameron and Tom disagree.

JC

[Steve Oberheu]

Son of Mr. Green Jeans

Whoa...as in Frank Zappa?? Nice!

My favorites to play are the kind that make people stop, look around, wrinkle their nose scratch their head and think..."did I really just hear that on tuba???" The list includes:

Steve Miller Band...theme from opening bit of the song "Swingtown" (O-OOOO-O-O-O-OO-o-OOOOO). Every horn player thinks it's their lick from Don Juan. Ha...No!

Guns n' Roses...opening guitar lick from "Sweet Child o' Mine."

"Uncle ****er" from the South Park movie. Or "Blame Canada."

AC/DC...main riff from "Highway to Hell" with multiphonics to mimic the guitar riff.

Lynyrd Skynyrd..."Sweet Home Alabama" opening riff or guitar lick from "Freebird."

Jimi Hendrix...."Purple Haze."

Musical bit from the beginning of the Pac-Man game.

[Dean E]

-Sousa's Semper Fidelis
-Farrar's Bombasto
-Huffine's Them Basses
-Bewley's arrangement of America the Beautiful, in Summer-Tuba-Time. This got the audience on their feet at TubaChristmas in August 2004, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

[tubafour]

Speaking of that Pac-Man opening.......would anyone happen to have that written out that they could drop my way? That sounds like so much fun.

[Arkietuba]

[quote]does anyone have "Ride" as a tuba solo? i know it comes up in tubenet ALOT! so somebody's gotta have it some where in thier harddrive's.
thanks
scott[/quote]

I have the Herbert Wekselblatt arr. of Die Walkure for tuba as well as my arrangement of the Super Mario Bros. main theme for tuba/euphonium quartet.

My favorite tuba parts to blast:
Them Basses; Cluster,Fluster,Bluster March; Hammersmith; Die Walkure; Escape from Plato's Cave; Amparito Roca; and Symphonie in B flat (Hindemith)

[Doug@GT]

Bud. (aka "You've said it all")

Doug "it's a Georgia Tech thing"

[jmh3412]

Overture to Meistersingers
Bruckner 4
Borodin 2
Spitfire Prelude
Petrushka
Romeo and Juliet -Prokofiev
Carmina Burana
Verdi requiem
Puccini - Messa di Gloria

[Tabor]

I like the Brahms Lullaby and I'm a little teapot

Tabor

[ThomasDodd]

Guns n' Roses...opening guitar lick from "Sweet Child o' Mine."

There's one I hadn't thought about. Curious, what octave you pick for this?

Lynyrd Skynyrd..."Sweet Home Alabama" opening riff or guitar lick from "Freebird."

Which lick from Freebird, the slow one at the beginning, the riff in the outro, or one of the solos in the outro?

[Steve Oberheu]

Guns n' Roses...opening guitar lick from "Sweet Child o' Mine."

There's one I hadn't thought about. Curious, what octave you pick for this?

Lynyrd Skynyrd..."Sweet Home Alabama" opening riff or guitar lick from "Freebird."

Which lick from Freebird, the slow one at the beginning, the riff in the outro, or one of the solos in the outro?

The "Sweet Child"...I'd start on D below the staff. An octave below that would be hilarious, though! The guitar melody from "Freebird" would definitely be the slow one at the beginning.

[Dan Schultz]

Talk about fun, "Seduced" by Leon Redbone.

Wasn't Jonathan Dorn great in that one?

[Steve Oberheu]

Speaking of that Pac-Man opening.......would anyone happen to have that written out that they could drop my way? That sounds like so much fun.

I'll give it a try.....

Pick a major scale, any major scale. Then do the scale degrees in the following order:

1-3-2-4-3-4-5-3-2-4-3-4-5-3-4-5-6-7-8-7-8

So, in the key of C, it would be:

C-E-D-F-E-F-G-E-D-F-E-F-G-E-F-G-A-B-C-B-C

And now the rhythm...(8th note is marked with a -) (16th note is a =) (barline is a /) 2/4 time; quarter note=96.

----/====--/========/---.


It ain't pretty notation, but should get the point across.

Cheers!

[Tubaryan12]

The Chicago Tribune March

[jlbreyer]

OK. Lots here I also like. One we played last night at rehearsal is Zacatecas - the second? strain.

Our director must like it, too. He had us do it over several times.

[Sally Larsen]

I've got to put in a good word for "Ragged Rosie" and "Kentucky Sunrise" - both bring a lot of smiles to the back row of our community band.

[Teubonium]

Our community band is doing Army Of The Nile March by Kenneth J. Alford. Great tuba part all the way through, but I especially like the sixteenth note run up to a Bb above the staff and back down toward the end of the trio. Blastissimo! GREAT FUN!!!