What to play at an open mic?

Mojo workin' · Post by **Mojo workin'** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:06 pm

If you pick a cool guitar solo, there's none cooler than Voodoo Child(slight return) by Jimi Hendrix.

Good luck, don't decide to intersperse Ginsberg and Keroac poetry with bongo accompaniment into your act.

Let us know what you pick to play.

josh_kaprun · Post by **josh_kaprun** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:15 pm

One word...Fnugg.

LoyalTubist · Post by **LoyalTubist** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:23 pm

And dress appropriately...

josh_kaprun · Post by **josh_kaprun** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 10:28 pm

If you play Fnugg, it will not matter WHO is there...I have yet to play that piece for a single person who did not think that it was totally awesome (and, yes, that does include non-musicians and non-tuba-musicians).

The Big Ben · Post by **The Big Ben** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 11:04 pm

Bob1062 wrote:Fnugg?

Here's Oystein doin' Fnugg:

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1760484/

I wouldn't call it humor but many people think weird things about tubas...

Lies. all lies...

BopEuph · Post by **BopEuph** » Sun Oct 07, 2007 11:49 pm

I do Fnugg all the time on euph. People expect the same "boring" stuff everyone else plays. Once you start that first Bb with the glissing multiphonic, you immediately have everyone's attention.

Nick

tubatom91 · Post by **tubatom91** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:33 am

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=refH8kOEkRI

ZNC Dandy · Post by **ZNC Dandy** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:34 am

"Yakkety Sax" is hard to beat for a crowd pleaser. Or if you can get someone to play along with you, "Get It On" by Chase rocks. Check out Jon Sass' playing it down on his Sagenhaft recording.

TexTuba · Post by **TexTuba** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:38 am

I once saw this duet get ready for an open mic contest. They played "Master Exploder" for fun. They probably would have won the night of the contest, but they had to battle Satan...

Ralph "Hoping that his post wasn't TOO vague" .....

MartyNeilan · Post by **MartyNeilan** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 9:53 am

ZNC Dandy wrote:"Yakkety Sax" is hard to beat for a crowd pleaser.

Ditto.
If you don't want to transcribe it off an old Benny Hill episode, there are plenty of MIDI files on the web with it as well, in case you forget how the whole thing goes.

The Big Ben · Post by **The Big Ben** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 10:08 am

MartyNeilan wrote:
ZNC Dandy wrote:"Yakkety Sax" is hard to beat for a crowd pleaser.
Ditto.
If you don't want to transcribe it off an old Benny Hill episode, there are plenty of MIDI files on the web with it as well, in case you forget how the whole thing goes.

My HS band director was a sax player and used to love playing YS. Sometimes as a goof at the end of a long, hard practice session, we would see how fast we/he could play it. Sometimes it was pretty close to double time. Percy could blow!

tubatooter1940 · Post by **tubatooter1940** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 12:39 pm

I you showed up in your underwear and looked as good as this lady does, you could fake playing tuba like she does and few would care.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a5KXFbVs ... ed&search=
I recommend Leon Redbone's arrangement of "Seduced".

Blastissimo con Forte · Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:25 pm

One more for Fnugg. I actually did that at an open mic night. Guitars, poetry, singing. Then I got up and played fnugg and blew them all away. They loved it.

lgb&dtuba · Post by **lgb&dtuba** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 2:40 pm

Freebird.

TubaRay · Post by **TubaRay** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:01 pm

DP wrote:
Bob1062 wrote:Oystein is a GOD!! I would take a bullet for him (maybe he'd give me an Eb then! )!

No kidding!!!

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:16 pm

Bob1062 wrote:What to play at an open mic?

Show Me The Money!

Ricko · Post by **Ricko** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:41 pm

Purple Haze

Steve Inman · Post by **Steve Inman** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:47 pm

DP wrote:
Bob1062 wrote:Oystein is a GOD!! I would take a bullet for him (maybe he'd give me an Eb then! )!

Thanks, Dale.

Just for the record, Oystein is not a god, is not God, never was, and never will be. He is one mighty fine tuba player, however. And, you're welcome to take a bullet for him should you choose -- however in this case the Eb would be moot (and mute!).

I now return you to your regularly scheduled TubeNet . . . .

Regards,

Steve Inman · Post by **Steve Inman** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:52 pm

lgb&dtuba wrote:Freebird.

If you show up with a tuba, you know SOMEBODY in the crowd is gonna shout out this suggestion. Have the first 16 bars of it memorized, and ready to go!

Then seque into a few bars of "Smoke on the water", Frankenstein, then into whatever you really plan to do ....

8^D

Seriously -- if you have a mic and a "looper", you can pull off almost anything, I suspect!

Have fun ...

windshieldbug · Post by **windshieldbug** » Mon Oct 08, 2007 4:56 pm

Steve Inman wrote:
lgb&dtuba wrote:Freebird.
If you show up with a tuba, you know SOMEBODY in the crowd is gonna shout out this suggestion. Have the first 16 bars of it memorized, and ready to go!

First, you have to grab the mic and yell, "What song is it you want to hear!?"

THEN proceed as suggested...