looking for friendly tuba duets...

[Alex Reeder]

I am going to be a freshman next year at Eastman as a Music Ed major. I have had experiences at college visits and summer camps where I read a duet or two with another tuba player as a way of making friends.
I am looking for a duet book that I could use to help me get to know the other tuba players in the studio and have a good time. They should be fairly advanced, but not so hard that we can't have fun just sight-reading them.
Anyone have suggestions of duets that would be good for this?
Alex Reeder

[Gorilla Tuba]

The Nehlybel duets are kinda fun because... well, some are pretty bad. They give you something to talk about. Some aren't so bad.

[JB]

The two volumes of the K. Singleton duets are pretty good as well.

[Steve Marcus]

Jim Self's duets are fun.

[Z-Tuba Dude]

Bach Two-Part Inventions. For tuba or bass trombone. Fun, not too difficult, educational........

Is that a special arrangement, or are you just suggesting to read them off the originals? If it is an arrangement, do you have the info?

[CJ Krause]

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[Mark]

Another thing that I like to play with other people is rochut etudes in octaves.

There are two or three different books out there that turn the first volume of Rochut into duets. They are for trombone of course.

[TheChiefofStaph]

There are two or three different books out there that turn the first volume of Rochut into duets. They are for trombone of course.

"Twenty Counterpoint" by Tom Ervin is an absolute gem if Robert King or the like have it in stock. The book consists of twenty Rochut duets (the numbers, obviously, correspond with the trombone Rochut and not our Bordogni). Some are a lot of fun with a little subtle jazz thrown in (understandable as Ervin is a heck of a jazz bone player).

Like I said, the book is listed on Hickeys, Robert King, etc.

Ben