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Is there a tuba part in this? Is it hard?

Just kidding...

I am working both Rite of Spring tuba parts (no audition or anything, just for my own development as a player and "enjoyment") and my rhythmic integrity is lacking. Does anyone have any syllabic tricks to hearing the licks correctly? [For example, BUM-ba-ba-bum-bum in the Ride could be heard as CO-co-nut-cream-pie.]

For the record, I am using CC and F tubas in both parts and the recording I am using for comparison/following along is the CSO under Ozawa.

Just be careful of that bassoon part!

iiipopes wrote:Just be careful of that bassoon part!

"I'm not an English horn;
This part is much too high!"
etc.

Get a metronome that subdivides! It'll be all but impossible to get the meter to work (too many changes), unless you can make a click track on your PC.

You could do that with a notation program, like Noteworthy Composer which has a free version available. Use the percussion voices, maybe a bass drum for the downbeat and snare or rimshot for the subsequent beats, maybe even subdividing with another sound. NWC is pretty straightforward, and since it can be free...

This wasn't nearly as hard as I thought it would be to perform.A good conductor can lead you through it without too much bloodshed.Let the f player play all the high f#'s in that passage.I got to sit next to Demondrae playing the bass trumpet part.Nice...

Yes.I was playing the first part on f and it was actually easier for me to play them on f than the 2nd player on his mira 186BBb,so we swapped for those notes.However,I've only done 2 performances.I'm sure there are folks on the tubenet who've done 20 or 30 or more who may have more insight...