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Is anyone aware of a tuba quartet arrangement of Smoke on the Water?

I'd love to see that arrangement shot straight out of a flare gun. Burn the place to the ground.

But Only if you perform it in Montreaux

You might try asking Tim Olt from Bowling Green State University. His tuba quartet, All The King's Tubas, performed at theme parks for a long time. He might have an arrangment of this that he can send you. He posts here on TubeNet.

- Pat Stuckemeyer

Before you get all excited about the riff, know one thing: the riff is not on bass, it's not on power chords, and it's not on a single string. The riff is played on the D and G strings of a Strat together as follows (open is open strings, numbers are which fret):

open, 3 , 5 ,, open, 3 , 65, open, 3 , 5 , , 3 , open...

When played on a Strat with an overwound pickup in the bridge through a Marshall Plexi cranked, there is enough distortion and sustain to produce the difference tone and make it sound like it's 1 or 2 octaves lower.

Please leave this one in the domain of the guitar.

iiipopes wrote:Please leave this one in the domain of the guitar.

Sorry, but a gillion marching bands have already done it and Blechschaden has done it also (http://www.blechschaden.de).

iiipopes wrote:Before you get all excited about the riff, know one thing: the riff is not on bass, it's not on power chords, and it's not on a single string. The riff is played on the D and G strings of a Strat together as follows (open is open strings, numbers are which fret):

open, 3 , 5 ,, open, 3 , 65, open, 3 , 5 , , 3 , open...

When played on a Strat with an overwound pickup in the bridge through a Marshall Plexi cranked, there is enough distortion and sustain to produce the difference tone and make it sound like it's 1 or 2 octaves lower.

Parallel fourths, eh? The difference tone would be two octaves below the upper played note. So put two tubas on it! (the original question did refer to a quartet) That ought to rattle a few things ...