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I need to really look at some grooves and walking lines to sightread this weekend.

Being a euph transplant and pro bassist, I can read bass clef fine (one of the better readers in my area on bass), and read bass charts fine down an octave on tuba. But I'm sure I'm going to see some walking lines written for tuba in a commercial style audition on Monday.

If anybody has anything like that written down, it would really help me over the weekend. I do still have some issues sightreading quickly under a B below the staff, so that kind of stuff would really help. Walking lines are great, but anything would help, like funk grooves, bossa lines, rock, etc.

Guess not?

I do have the Cherry Classics excerpts CD, so I guess I can look at that. I've been in a few music stores and couldn't find any tuba books, including some halfway decent technique books. I worked my chops up on tuba using all my trombone/euph/trumpet books. This is going to be interesting.

You need piano music for that. Bass music will bottom out at E on the first ledger line.

I'd be interested in something like that as well.

I have found scale and line books for Bass but not Tuba.

swillafew wrote:You need piano music for that. Bass music will bottom out at E on the first ledger line.

I didn't think about that. That might be easier to search for.

Three Valves wrote:I have found scale and line books for Bass but not Tuba.

I still recommend the bass books if you're looking to learn how to walk (the Rufus Reid books are awesome), and I never bothered looking for tuba stuff because I actually read very rarely in the groups I play with. But this particular band writes out their basslines rather than giving changes. I understand why, though.

"Relentless Grooves" Sam Pilafian

On short notice, get yourself some staff paper and write out things you know an octave lower.

swillafew wrote:On short notice, get yourself some staff paper and write out things you know an octave lower.

That's actually what I've done a bit of. I have some of my own big band charts where I have basslines hidden behind the slash marks, so I just opened those files and adjusted them for sightreading.

I'm glad to know that my reading is still very strong on tuba, but anything below an A is still a bit tricky. Just need to keep working at it over the weekend.

The only problem is I know my basslines very well, so it's not too much of a sightreading exercise. But it still helps.

Nick,

Try the Ostrander shifting meters book for Tuba. It's not grooves, but it will get you reading syncopations in the tuba ranges. If you can read that, you'll be fine. Also the Snedecor Low Etudes book, just to get the ledger line note recognition more fluent. You know the style, sounds like you just need ledger line comfort. Good luck!

James

yaques wrote:Nick,

Try the Ostrander shifting meters book for Tuba. It's not grooves, but it will get you reading syncopations in the tuba ranges. If you can read that, you'll be fine. Also the Snedecor Low Etudes book, just to get the ledger line note recognition more fluent. You know the style, sounds like you just need ledger line comfort. Good luck!

James

James! Thanks, man. I don't have the time to get the books, but a quick Google search is finding some of these etudes in audition packets.

Ledger line issue is exactly the issue.

I'll let you know how it goes.