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Anyone have links to low brass carol books that are around $15 or so? Looking to play with some friends outside of stores when Christmas season comes around to make some extra money.

Here are various items (including carolling books.

http://www.tubachristmas.com/merchandise.htm" target="_blank

Provide me with an email address. I have some things that might be of interest.

There's plenty of curbs for everyone - just pick on that isn't already spoken for. I like Roger Vaughn's arrangements for tuba quartet.

TubaPresident wrote:Anyone have links to low brass carol books that are around $15 or so? Looking to play with some friends outside of stores when Christmas season comes around to make some extra money.

$15 each part or $15 to cover all the parts? These are cheap ($2.50 each part, so you can buy spares) and very easy to sight read (although a little trite):
http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/search?Ntt=christmas+time
C Bass Clef covers 1st, 3rd, and 4th, and if no one can read Bb TC (which covers all 4 parts + a "Special" part), then buy the Eb TC part to cover 2nd, and read it straight like it's written in C Bass Clef (but double-check the key).
I like these because they're mix-and-match for any instrumentation, I can include middle-school level musicians, and if the books "walk away" when we're done, it's not a big loss.

If you meant $15 per book, then I recommend the Salvation Army's Caroler's Favorites.
http://www.jwpepper.com/Carolers%27-Fav ... 23259.item
1st & 2nd aren't available in C Bass Clef, but the Eb treble reads like Bass Clef and is available on those parts.
Despite the # of tunes, the folio is small enough for a (sturdy) lyre.
These are more fun to me than the Christmas Time books, but can be a bit difficult for our local middle-schoolers to sight read.

Curmudgeon wrote: I imagine they'll kick you to the curb. Such spots are usually reserved for, and rightfully so, those collecting for charities like the Salvation Army, etc.

Sadly, this.
There were businesses that welcomed us (although, again, we weren't busking, and when folks insisted on giving us something, we designated it 100% to 2nd Harvest), but we were careful to request permission of the proprietors, first.

There's a number of places that told us to leave, because "If we let you play (even for free or for the 2nd Harvest Food Bank), then we have to let everyone else play/sing/proseletyze/rant, too".

I could suggest my "Good Cheer Collection," which comes in at about $11/book. I wrote it to be playable with VERY little rehearsal by almost any group. You'll find it on that page as hard copy or a download:

http://www.sheetmusicplus.com/search?Nt ... ion+werden

Songs included are:

Joy To The World
Bring A Torch Jeanette Isabella
On The Day Earth Shall Ring
Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming
Oh, Come All Ye Faithful
The First Noel
Good Christian Men Rejoice
Deck the Halls
In The Bleak Mid-Winter
Go Tell It On the Mountain
Good King Wenceslas
Jingle Bells
Silent Night
Hark the Herald Angels Sing
I Heard The Bells
Jolly Old St. Nicholas

Our quartet enjoys playing the arrangements in the Good Cheer collection, and our audiences enjoy listening to them.

A complaint I get re the Tuba Christmas pieces is that while these are great to listen to, they aren't good for sing-alongs. I think that when you talk about "carol books" this can mean either "arrangements of carols" or "books to accompany the singing of carols". I've found it hard to find the latter in the form and content I want, and for the people who'll be playing them, and at a reasonably affordable price.

I've meant to try Dave's book, and may still do so -- though as usual, time is running out. However, again, it's not obvious to me from looking at the examples that these arrangements will satisfy the "sing-ability" requirement with which I'm being presented. In the past, I've played (with a peculiarly mixed group of instruments) "Sing A Song of Christmas" -- which is quite sing-able and comes with lyric sheets, but contains really simplistic and short arrangements that I don't much like.

I heartily recommend Dave Werden's Good Cheer collection. The songs "work", they are interesting to play, and people can sing along w/o too much difficulty. We have used them for 3 years.