KiltieTuba wrote:
What are you hoping for?
You already know what the orchestra-trained and dixieland/jazz tuba players think of this 'style', I'm waiting to see a post from Tuba Joe, or any of the non-classical tuba players about this topic... maybe they already have posted but it's buried beneath all the 'hate'.
My opinion:
The Auburn guys were posted before, but the poster chose a different video that was supposed to show that these guys were different ... but they aren't.
The other one, it's an HBCU sousaphone section at a football game, in the stands, in an open stadium - you can hear them, that's good, at least you can hear them and their echo, that's already better than many other schools. Plus they seem to be enjoying what they're doing...
If you, Tuboss2, want to know what I think, go over to the thread on Beatboxin' and look at my response to KiltieTuba there. There isn't anyone prohibiting folks from posting here, so if you're not getting support from the non-"orchestra-trained and dixieland/jazz tuba players" it's because they don't feel like posting, not because they're buried under the hate. Tuboss2, you've had eleven pages of discussion of your questions and that is a lot more than I have ever gotten, yet I've never claimed that there's a cabal against me, as KiltieTuba seems to be implying is arrayed against you and him.
I listened to the first of your latest clips and I found the blattiness of the stacatto notes too much. maybe it would be better in a stadium, but, as recorded, I think they took it too far. They can do differently, as their sustained notes were a little edgy, but very nice sounding. I think it's a matter of taste to some extent. IDk why you keep posting videos. . . your points have long been made and if you haven't heard what people are saying yet, you probably won't. This is getting kind of like the kid who asked to go out of the neighborhood to A and was told "No," and then asked, "well, can I go to B, to C, to D?" If you haven't gotten the message that most folks here don't like this form of playing or consider it just a form of stadium entertainment or a type of tone with a limited use, you just aren't listening.
I am unable to download your other excerpt without downloading another software program and I'm trying to keep my life simple, so I'm not going to go there.
I'll state again, Tuboss2, that I'm glad you're excited about the tuba and I wish you good luck with your approach. Learning to play loud can't hurt you much, but won't ever help you learn to play . . . legato, mellow, flexible, pianissimo, etc., etc. Good luck in finding your niche. Unless you have a new question to ask, I'm about done listening to variations on edgy tone with the question, "well, do you like this one?" People just aren't as interested in this as you are. Maybe in another forum with more high school and college football band players . . .
