Most fun tuba songs to blast out?

[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!!!

[bigboom]

I really like "Symphonies of Gaia" when I playing with the band, otherwise all of mine have been listed.

Ben

[Wes Krygsman]

Fave band arrangement: Manzoni Requim-Verdi. Sick tuba part, most challenging part overall I've played in band so far.
Fave orch: Prokofieff Romeo and Juliet. Got me to work on my low range and love playing in that range now.

[Kevin Hendrick]

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

Tabor

The Brahms Lullaby is nice ... not sure what being a little teapot has to do with it ...

[John Caves]

How about the solo on "The Red Ravem Polka" !

[Billy M.]

My vote goes to Fountains of Rome by Respighi.

MMMMMMMMMMMMMM BRASS!