so.. I got a trombone.

[NeilMacQuarrie]

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[Doug@GT]

You fellows make life too hard for yoursleves! I much prefer to go oom and let someone else take care of the pah-pah part.

That is quite the truth. I've not played a pah-pah in years.

Doug "who thinks horn players are more familiar with pah-pah's"

[dopey]

If the rest of the band drags, you can quite often help the situation by 'pushing' the tempo;) The band tends to follow the lower voices.

I have to say Doc's post is right on. What I tend to practice is much 'harder' then anything I tend to play in band. As well my pieces for auditions are above and beyond anything i've seen in bands. The hardest music i've played as a group would be small quintet stuff, some of that tends to be a challenge.


Jacob"who tends to find range to be a problem more then technicality in quintet pieces" morgan..


P.S. I have a trombone to, Can I join the club?

[Chuck(G)]

Reply 100! to a trombone query, yet!

[Matt G]

i use selmer C star by the way.

Yeah, we stock those...because folks are autoprogrammed to request them...

...' half the price and half the sound of a Charles Bay.

The other problem may be the horn. My wife has a Selmer Paris Bass (Low Eb) that was owned by a very good woodwind repair guy. He was mainly a sax player and used this on big band gigs. The lower pads has resonators on 'em. That sucker can HONK pretty darn well. She does used the Selmer C* and she can play pretty good, but if she starts playing regularly again, I'll suggest the Bay mouthpiece. Also, are those synthetic reeds you linked to? Do those work from what you've heard?

Let's derail this topic a wee bit more...

[Dan Schultz]

Durn!... I gotta go back to school.

[TubaRay]

I know what you mean, Dan. Me, too.

[Matt G]

This clears up just about any cold:



The name, nasal douche, is admittedly dorky, but it works very well for sinus issues.

I vote for this as the worst thread ever.

[dopey]

tbone playing wont' hurt tuba chops.

Though I highly doubt your at a level where learning other instruments(mouthpieces) And such will improve your range on tuba. I suspect your range is just developing in general, with or without the tbone.

When i was younger I decided to learn sax, I taught myself on the side when I should had been playing tuba. My tuba playing suffered.

The problem is, when you goto all region, state, or scholarships on your main instrument (bass clarinet). You can't say, o well I can't play that piece very well, but I can play tuba tbone euph sax and trumpet...It just doesn't work that way. And by trying to learn all these instruments your main instrument is whats hurting.

I'd back down on learning all these instruments, if your gonna be a band director you'll learn em all in college, if your gonna be a performance then.. Well .. shouldn't u be practicing your main axe any spare moment you have>?

Unless you get straight perfects at region, and make the highest chair on your main axe... you have room to improve. and If you do get straight perfects and make 1st.. well you wouldn't be trying to learn several other instruments(at the same time), because you would be dedicated to one, not twenty.

Jacob"not trying to be a jerk"

[MartyNeilan]

but im so good at the bass clar i cant quit.

And Humble, too!!!!!

[TubaRay]

"i can be slouched back with my instrument at a 45* angle to my mouth and still be rippin' stuff out like no tomorrow."

I know I'm impressed!

[dopey]

"i can be slouched back with my instrument at a 45* angle to my mouth and still be rippin' stuff out like no tomorrow."

I know I'm impressed!

So modest he is.

If you make it to college and are 'sooo good' on bass clarinet, tuba, trombone, and bass trombone. That you have to ask the college college to tell you which one you should pursue.. Well then you my friend are a prodigy.

If your even half decent on tuba you will soon find yourself bored with the music Most highschool bands play.If all us tuba players simply switched to another instrument when we got to a point we could play our band pieces great while "slacking"... Then well alot of us wouldn't be playing tuba anymore.

does your band director not have any problems with you learning how to play the entire band? I know that mine would defiantly advise against taking time away from tuba to learn another instrument, for no real reason.

Jacob

[Chuck(G)]

well... more so... it will be a loss for me if i do. and my parents wont let me.. i just dont put heart into practicing bass anymore. its no fun for some reason... but i can be slouched back with my instrument at a 45* angle to my mouth and still be rippin' stuff out like no tomorrow.

Sounds like you should put in some time on strings. Have you tried violin?

[TubaRay]

I believe the only way I'd like to go back to being 14 again would be if I could take my very old brain with me. Unfortunately, that would mean that I wouldn't be able to know everything(again).

[Chuck(G)]

chuck - i tried viola when i was about 9-10. when i would get bored easily with things. i didnt enjoy practicing as i dont know. but if i picked up string again, it would be cello. but i am of the edge of learning electric bass guitar. so does that count?

I don't think so. Violin is fiercely competitive lots-of-notes-per-square inch kind of stuff. Very difficult to make a claim of being a violin virtuoso--it seems that you're always up against someone who was playing Paganini at 7.. OTOH, one appears to get a deeper understanding of music as a result.

[JB]

well a douche does clean the vagina...

For some, yes. For males, however, probably not so.

Do you have access to a French-English dictionary, by chance?

[TheChiefofStaph]

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