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Serious tuba players will get enough practice in E Major later on with endless playings of Fountains of Rome in elephant rooms.

read the Eb section up a half step. That is what I have kids do.
k

E major? Isn't that only used on electric guitar "power chords"?

dgpretzel wrote:I guess the above explanations are as good as anything.

It also gave me a moment's pause when I thought B Major was also omitted, until I saw that its enharmonic, Cb, was there.

I'm sort of interested in "boning up" on sharp keys because it's likely I'll be playing in an orchestra this Fall. I did play in a high school orchestra, but that was 40 years ago in time, and, of course, it was high school level material.

Perhaps, I should acquire the Arban's.


DG

Low brass scale routines by Klaus Bjerre.
Routines for the Major mode, the natural, melodic, and harmonic Minor modes, the Mixolydian mode, and the Dorian mode. Each mode has pages addressed directly to Euphonium (baritone, trombones) in treble and bass clefs plus bass clef tubas in F, Eb, CC, and BBb. These routines may also be used by other treble clef brasses, clarinets, and saxophones.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/YorkMaste ... 0routines/

Each mode goes around the circle of fifths and covers 4 octaves, if you play the full sub-sections for the mid, low, and high ranges. Each mode comes in .pdf files holding versions for all of the low brasses represented. You only should print the relevant pages. This organisation of the material will be changed with an upcoming revision, but I can’t tell you when that will happen.

Klaus

Just play the Enat stuff on your F by using the Db notation and Eb fingerings.

One word (well two really)
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They have both Rubank advanced books.
How it works;
Your computer listens to you as you play the music .You set the tempo. Then it shows any wrong notes or timing problems you may have. I haven't tried this with tuba. My computer mic has a hard time hearing the low notes with the tuner so it may also with the listening tool. It can also play the notes while you play along and at any tempo.

For scales however the best thing is the SmartMusic scales section.
This is a huge library that you can transpose and cycle.
I can set it to loop an exercise and transpose it every time it repeats.
The scale exercises also have accompaniments , (sometimes several choices) that are fun to play along with and help with pitch. You can also opt out of them.

The down side is it's a subscription program and you have to pay $30 or $40 dollars a year. They do however add new music regularly.

You might like "Scales & Arpeggios for the Tuba", by Allan Street, pub by Boosey & Hawkes. I found mine on Ebay. I have found it very useful for covering all the scales for daily practice.

E major?!? That's an ophicleide key [Midsummer Night's Dream]

No wonder they omitted it!

Find an olde Pares Scales for BBb and one for Eb tuba and you'll work your privates off! I don't know of a Clarke Technical studies for Tuba (or ophicleide ) available - anyone seen one? They're a real workout too!

J.c.S.

Got some response from people downloading my scale training system. I stand by it as is, but when I recently transferred the system to recorders, I made it more comprehensive, so that it has Major, Lydian, Locrian, Phrygian, 3xMinor, Dorian, Mixolydian, and Dominant Diminished modes represented. The legato sections were changed to also having arpeggios. This reflects my own practising on tubas also. The .pdf files were not bundled like with the low brass versions.

I plan on revising and completing the low brass version, but I will await and see if I regain my ability to read music from paper. The current version prints on the small side. There are two remedies for that. Playing the whole thing out of ones head, like I do. Or changing the page format to landscape rather than portrait.

In the recorder version I have pages relevant for all the 5 ways of reading the most common pitches of recorders, C and F. In the low brass edition you will find specific versions for all treble clef reading plus for basses in Bb, F, Eb, CC, and BBb.

One group of readers happens not to be represented: the BeNeLux and French readers of transposed bass clef. They should, however, be well served by using the CC version.

Klaus