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http://youtube.com/watch?v=BsPZQ8xIaDA

Watch this video. These guys are my new heroes. Does anyone know if VSU has a DMA program?

Holy freakin' cow.

Next excerpt: http://youtube.com/watch?v=kHjaBjgzopU

Just listening to that made my lips swell up and throb...

uh dude........way too much information...

Was it just me, or did they cats in the first video instantly slow down? Not only that, but their sound had little to no tone quality. Whoever was playing the top line in the second video did a good job though.

I'm aware that these were sousaphones, but shouldn't all tuba players (sousaphone or otherwise) try and bring the best they musically can anytime they play, even if it's at a "Battleground"? Forgive me if I'm being a nitpicker, but when I played sousaphone in marching bands (and kinda taught for a few years), the last thing I wanted my section to do was to not keep time and not have a good sound. Maybe the sound quality was the result of a bad microphone, but I'm not inclined to say that neither of the two videos was anything special - certainly nothing that any sousaphone line with a decent top player couldn't do.

SR

You guys are totally gay if you didn't think that was awesome.

Enjoy it for what it is.

SRanney wrote:. . . but I'm not inclined to say that neither of the two videos was anything special . . . .

So you liked them! Or at least one of them?

I'd be willing to bet that the sousaphones in these clips had fun doing them!

And gosh- people play the tuba for different reasons!!!

Gee, what a concept; have fun while you're playing!

nothing likea bunch O' tuba players together

Maybe they went out and pounded beer after they finished the game!

Man, I found those videos last week and woah, my section is going to be doing that stuff. And to SR...if you've never seen an HBCU style band then you wouldn't understand why they play like that...for one, most HBCU's don't play DCI style music...they for the most part play popular music so you don't neccesarily need a "good" tone for that. Another thing is that the audience goes crazy when they hear the sousas belting out a fanfare like that. If you're in DCI then yes, you would play with the best tone you could, but if you're in an HBCU sousa section, you gotta belt it out...it's the only way.

Arkietuba wrote:... Another thing is that the audience goes crazy when they hear the sousas belting out a fanfare like that. If you're in DCI then yes, you would play with the best tone you could, but if you're in an HBCU sousa section, you gotta belt it out...it's the only way.

As a proud former member of the Tuskegee University Marching Crimson Piper Band and Tuba Funk "Funkmaster" (aka section leader) the young man is correct in the above statement.
In concert band, however, I had to sit behind the Miraphone and tone it down a bit.

Buy those guys a nice milkshake for me! That's amazing.

Man....

You've GOT to give them credit for getting 10 guys to play that accurately at FFFFFFF....now THAT's a lot of fortes......

Go ahead on, I say.....until the focal dystonia sets in....ouch.....

I hope they warm down....

I can go out on the porch and listen to the cars backfire and get more musical enjoyment than listening to that. I don't know what it is and I don't care what you call it as long as you don't try to call it music.

I don't know, I think air horns coud get a better sound *and* better volume.

Despite the naysayers, that was a good show. They would make it on the Tonight Show if they all installed flame throwers on their tubas.