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Fingering chart

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:20 am
by bestprice
Can anyone help with a fingering chart for a CC (5 valve) tuba, playing the BBb part in treble cleff in a brass band?

Re: Fingering chart

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:38 am
by eupher61
look at it as Bass Clef and use F tuba fingers. adjust flats and sharps as needed. or, tie your 5th valve down, if it is a whole step.

Re: Fingering chart

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 3:08 am
by Todd S. Malicoate
eupher61 wrote:...or, tie your 5th valve down, if it is a whole step.
Worst advice, possibly, ever.

To the OP: No. Not without at least knowing what type of 5th valve you have.

Re: Fingering chart

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 7:28 am
by bestprice
Thanks, I,ll give that a shot.

Re: Fingering chart

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 12:24 pm
by Timswisstuba
A better way of remembering it is making a chart yourself.
Written C is concert Bb...written f# is concert E natural... etc..

You could also practice by getting a CD play-along trumpet book. That way you train your reflexes to press the right valves down when reading treble clef. Your ear should tell you if you are playing the right notes.

Re: Fingering chart

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 2:55 pm
by Lectron
bestprice wrote:Can anyone help with a fingering chart for a CC (5 valve) tuba, playing the BBb part in treble cleff in a brass band?
You probably have your reasons for doing it, but I'd probably had the pieces photoscored to bass cleff (or treble)
If it's a permanent thing, I can see the point of learning it.
looking at it as Bass Clef and use F tuba fingers' as Eupher61 said is probably the easiest way

Other than that...CC has a tendency to not sound all that great in Brass bands,
very often due to all the other 24 :-)

Re: Fingering chart

Posted: Sun Jan 20, 2013 4:01 pm
by Lectron
It's transposed, yes. Seperate BBb and Eb parts with treble 'key', meaning the 'C' for the BBb parts sounds BBb

There's also transposed bass key (to BBb) so the C sound s BBb (typical some bass trombone stuff)
but that's more rare stuff...

Re: Fingering chart

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 7:09 am
by bestprice
Damn it. Anyone got a BBb for sale.

Re: Fingering chart

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:27 pm
by swillafew
If you can handle the parts in the brass band, you should be able to handle learning to read them, too. This comes up all the time on this board, and I would recommend getting yourself a beginner trumpet book and playing it from cover to cover.

Re: Fingering chart

Posted: Mon Jan 21, 2013 12:34 pm
by sloan
bestprice wrote:Damn it. Anyone got a BBb for sale.
A trumpet method book would be cheaper.