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Mine was good. Only snag we hit was that the last hymn was played in D Major...but was written in Eb in the hymnal. The first verse was awkward and the other 3 verses had only horn with the organ (the only one among us who knows how to transpose by a 1/2 step).

Well, that and we were situated in an odd spot, directly in the path of people coming back from communion.

But all in all, not too bad.

Anyone else?

I couldn't play this year. I have a bout of pneumonia.

It went great. I got to try out this new distortion pedal I bought (Electro-Harmonix Big Muff) and it really filled up the band's sound.

if you didn't know I play E. bass in a (christian) rock band for our contemporary service

It was great except for the 5 am wake-up call!!!

Ah, 15 min of Pezel, Scheidt, Gabrieli and Bach for prelude. Then some Rutter, quick change to euph for the Hallelujah Chorus, and then another hour+ of hymns on the EEb.

Oh, and there was about a 25 min break until the second show, err, service.

The only bummer was that this church has quite possibly the best organ I've ever played with (or heard in a church) and it DOESN'T WORK! It got blown out a year ago by a freak lightening storm on Good Friday, so we've been having to play more stuff each Easter/Christmas to compensate until they get the organ repaired (plus new pipes while they're at it!).

-Josh

went quite well, even with the ringer 2nd trumpet player. We started with the 2nd movement of the Royal Fireworks at a blitering tempo, then Salvation is Cerated, O Magnum Mysteriosum (?) for quintet some hymns with a few transpositions, etc., etc.

Fun and just one show.
Roger

At times buried by some very powerful lower organ pipe ranks. I don't think my FF is the ticket for this gig. A 6/4 CC balances that organ much better.

Pretty well. The first service was not that well attended, but that's OK, 'cause it was just a warm-up for the second service!

We did a piece with the choir that really needed a conductor --- especially for the end. The organist/music director did not have the brass parts in her music, so she didn't know exactly what we had, and we of course, did not REALLY know what she had, either. It was cause for some uncertainty in the performances, but we survived.

On a personal note, I was VERY pleased with the performance of my Miraphone 184! (I am still getting used to what it can do!) I also played euph on that choir piece, which was the first time I ever brought a euphonium to a church gig --- I guess I have just been lucky so far --- what ever 2nd bone parts I have played so far, have worked OK on tuba.

We have been doing X-mas Eve & Easter at that church for the last 12 years. It is a very nice place to play, and the people are quite friendly (and they FEED us!). Pay was good, but they screwed up the check amounts, so I have to contact them, to straighten it out. Once that is done, the pay will be even better!

FYI - we played the Fred Mills arrangement of the Hallelujah Chorus as the postlude, and they really loved it! I reccommend it highly, if you haven't encountered it before.

Mine was bittersweet this year.

The gig went great, really good musicians and always a great time.

Bittersweet, as it will probably be my last time to play with these guys after 10 years with the same group at Christmas and Easter.

On the positive, I'm looking forward to life after the band and to finding a new gig back home in Kentucky.

If anyone there needs a tubist...

JKD

pulseczar wrote:It went great. I got to try out this new distortion pedal I bought (Electro-Harmonix Big Muff) and it really filled up the band's sound.

if you didn't know I play E. bass in a (christian) rock band for our contemporary service

Interesting, pulseczar, I have a Korg effects pedal I use with my Gibson 330 that has 60 preprogramed sounds and 60 more I can write. I have been playing tuba thrugh the Korg and have located a dozen possible effects that sound good with my old King. Some effects feature phase shift and others add some distortion. I am determined to play tuba with at least one helpful effect on our next in-studio c.d.
I'll keep you guys posted.
tubatooter1940
www.johnreno.com/

Showed up at 8 a.m. for a quick run through. Did 2 services and got paid well. However, 2nd service went way long and I missed Easter buffet dinner with the family Got to see everyone later at the house. That's just the way it goes sometimes.

two services-went great--our quintet has been playing Easter at the same church for 10+ years, and we almost never play the same arrangements of anything from year to year. (great choirmaster/organist) For the past five or so, our lead trumpet and the organist of this church (we play there a lot throughout the year, too) have made new prelude/postlude/fill-in arrangements, so it's, well, just fun and never boring.

dwa

Our Saturday gig at Para-dize seaside cafe and bar couldn't have gone better despite the fact that John Reno, our lead singer lost his voice to an attack of the killer pollen. This stuff gets him at least once every spring.
Instead of my usual three or four guitar songs (while John hits the head-we rarely take breaks) I sang 10 or 12. Funny stuff was working.
Fortunately, two guys from John's old college band in New Orleans ("Teazer") showed up and since they were guitar/vocalist/songwriters as well, sat in and played as much as they wanted. They were really good and their lady friends were fun company at the band beer-swilling table.
Management comped our tab, threw in a crabmeat-shrimp sandwich for all (super good) and invited us back soon. Tips were fantastic!

First show I felt pretty good. Second show, I missed too much IMO. Starting to really dig using a euph instead of trombone in the quintet.

Great. Really Great. Not only recording quality great, but served its true purpose of focusing the services and facilitating worship instead of merely being a performance on its own.

Having a staff that does what it takes to make sure of that, a volunteer choir that can swing with the best of them, a rhythm section as tight as any you can imagine, half of the Les Brown band (including lead trumpet, lead bone and lead tenor sax) horn section and a soloist who sounds like a cross between Diana Ross and Aretha Franklin doesn't hurt, either!

Overall, things went well today. Three consecutive Masses at a large Catholic church. Our quintet has a regular engagement there each Easter and Christmas.

The only disappointment is that our regular 1st trumpet, who serves in the Illinois Guards, has been shipped off to Afghanistan for 18 months. We missed him, and wished his wife and children well.

Meanwhile, we had already acquiesced not to include Mozart's "Alleluia" from Exultate Jubilate because the substitute trumpet player did not read it well in rehearsal. He had fine tone, but a case of nerves in the Masses. This resulted in some unanticipated tacet bars in the Mozart Church Sonata...

pulseczar wrote:It went great. I got to try out this new distortion pedal I bought (Electro-Harmonix Big Muff) and it really filled up the band's sound.

if you didn't know I play E. bass in a (christian) rock band for our contemporary service

New? Now I'm feeling old. My E-H Big Muff Pi is over 30 years old, and I bought it sightly used when I was in 8th grade in 1976. I'm going to have to dig it out and see if it still works, so I can find a use for it for my regular Sunday gig, along with my original Dallas/Arbiter Wah-Wah, and E-H Small Stone phase shifter, which, along with assorted 80's era Boss pedals, depending on what songs we lead on any given Sunday, (get ready for a paradigm shift) I plug into the front end of a POD 2.0 which then goes via direct box into a fully digital board!

Mine went real well, there were things that could have been better. Made some successful networking after.

Two great worship services with good friends and great musicians playing and singing some wonderful masterworks, Achieved, Hallaujah, and an interesting new commercial piece, Risen Alleluia, by Pote. Full house 2000+ both services, good sermon. I felt very refreshed afterwards even with the 5AM alarm. The Bass Trombone part to Achieved must have origionally been for awful-clyde.

bloke wrote:I always drag along my bariturd to "blind" church gigs, because of the 2nd bone / 'bass bone parts that are always on the stand. I used it on Handel (Messiah #53) and one other baroque-y tune.

Hey Joe,
What are your thoughts on Bass Trombone vs. Bariphonium on these parts?
At one Christmas church thing, I was switching between tuba and bass bone for just about every piece (and strangely enough, the tuba parts played a lot better on bass bone and the bass bone parts on tuba ) These were contemporary show type arrangements, not traditional hymn stuff.

I will admit that I did NOT have a gig this Easter....

But I did have a nice fly fishing trip down the Yakima River.

The tuba stayed home.

Ken S.