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Just play Christmas carols, the melody that is. Either do it by ear, or buy something that has the carol melody in it. You could even go to... http://www.noelnoelnoel.com/leadsht/shtmx.html and print off some sheet music (I'm sure you could find other sites that have a similar set-up). You have to read treble clef C, though.

If you have any TubaChristmas books, just play the first part (down the octave) - it's mainly the melody all the way through.

Studies on Christmas Carols, arr. by Arthur Frackenpohl, published by Kendor Music

Each carol starts off with a statement of the tune, then goes into variation(s)

Robert King lists it as #8543, with a cost of $8.00

dwa

dwaskew wrote:Studies on Christmas Carols, arr. by Arthur Frackenpohl, published by Kendor Music

Each carol starts off with a statement of the tune, then goes into variation(s)

Robert King lists it as #8543, with a cost of $8.00

dwa

These are nicely done. Well worth the effort, but the variations will challenge you much more than the tune. I second the notion.

Get the "Ultimate Christmas Fakebook" -- Hickey's has it. It not only has every Christmas song you ever heard of, it's got many you probably never have heard. It contains the melody in treble clef "in C," -- at concert pitch -- and the chord symbols.

You can play the melody, or you can switch to playing a bass line (reading from the chord symbols). When I play from a fakebook with another tubist we take turns playing lead and playing a bass line.

Another great source for this kind of music is the many piano editions published. You can pick any of the lines to play. Some of the books have chord symbols in addition, which may make playing a bass line or harmony easier.

What's that? Can't read treble clef? Take a few piano lessons to get clear with the concept. Then, the rest is just some practice. If you already have some piano (or a treble instrument) in your past, you already have the concept. The ability to play treble clef opens up a huge world of music for us tubists, and this is a great payoff for a modest amount of work.

Regarding learning to read chord symbols, just start out by playing the roots of the chords. Later on you can begin playing fifths too. Even later on, you can do bass lines using more of the notes from the chords.

Have fun!

Just finished rehearsing the carols for "John Reno and the Half-Fast Creekers Sixth Annual Winter Tour". Local elementary schools better watch out for us this year. We had the foresight to save words,chords and keys from years past and spent our rehearsal time adding jokes,sight gags, new sound effects and harmonies to last years smash hit show.

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Carroll has been gracious enough for the past couple years to share with us--free-- his Christmas carols arranged for tuba or euphonium solo. The quality is quite good and you can't beat the price! Drop him a line.

Is this what you're looking for?

http://www3.sympatico.ca/jshestowsky/me ... stmasTuba/

There's LOTS of Christmas (and other) music for tuba and/or euphonium (and other instruments) available for download from:

http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com

http://www.virtualsheetmusic.com/sheetmusichome.htm