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Does anyone else feel like a second-class musician since they won't make tuba versions? Whose lineage do we debase in protest?

Here, Here! I agree entirely! We're stuck with the few unit duets in the middle of the Advanced Book, which are nice, but we want more, More, MORE!

I am glad to see someone at least mention Rubank again. As a condensed, all-round method touching on all aspects of playing, it is underestimated.

I use the Advanced Method, vol. and 2, with my private HS students. I know of nothing else as comprehensive for the level it is written for. I too was always annoyed that it doesn't contain a duet section, whereas, Rub. Adv. for other band instruments does contain duets. I believe the Melodic Interpretation section consists of etudes in the tuba books and duets in the books for other instruments. I have used the duet section of the Rub. Adv. trombone books down an octave for tuba.

Books exactly like these:





are available for all instruments EXCEPT tuba.

Rubank

I have been using the Rubank Horn duet books as tuba duet books for years. They Work extremely well.

The trick is, add 3 flats to the written key signature and, in your mind's eye, change the treble clef sign on the page to bass clef. Then, read the notes on the page as if they are bass clef notes. When altering the key signature, if there are, for example, two sharps, two of the added flats will cancel the two sharps and the remaining flat will put you in the key of F major/D minor.

I have used both the yellow and brown books. They work particularly well on Eb Tuba.

Also, if you play these with a horn player, all the horn player has to do is read the printed part as horn in Eb.

I can use the horn or tb/bar books. But most of the students I've had can';t transpose down an octave or the horn thing confuses them.