method books

[ztuba]

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[MikeS]

I highly recommend "Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson." Besides being interesting reading it has some of the most useful information I've ever encountered on constructing bass lines. There's a great section in the book where Anthony Jackson does an analysis of the way Jamerson put together his lines. Take some standard chord progressions and apply Jackson's analysis to them. I guarantee you will learn some useful skills if you do this. The CD's let you either isolate or remove the bass line so you can listen or play along.

[hbcrandy]

May I also recommend the following that are available from Robert King Music in North easton Mass.

8459 TYRRELL, H.W. BOOSEY & HAWKES, INC. 40 ADVANCED STUDIES TUBA, STUDIES $10.95
AL28596 BLAZHEVICH, V. KING MUSIC COMPANY, ROBERT 70 STUDIES - VOLUME 1 / [TUBA] TUBA, STUDIES $16.50

[tubashaman2]

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[pierso20]

I really enjoy Grigoriev and Blazhevich, both books have several lyrical and technical etudes in them, or if you want to take a different route you could buy the Bordogni vocalises along with Kopprasch.

do you know any others????

Just messing.....

spent 6 hours today writing a paper about Kodaly........so...I need some personal humor......

In conjunction with your [the OP's] question about Jazz stuff...

Is there a collection of "canned" solo's written out that could be adapted to tuba? I think it'd be a really cool starting point for someone like me who has little jazz experience to get used to playing jazz SOLO stuff...rather than just a bass line.

[tubashaman2]

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[pierso20]

sometimes it's easy.

I do enjoy the Snedecor. Very fun.

[rocksanddirt]

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In conjunction with your [the OP's] question about Jazz stuff...

Is there a collection of "canned" solo's written out that could be adapted to tuba? I think it'd be a really cool starting point for someone like me who has little jazz experience to get used to playing jazz SOLO stuff...rather than just a bass line.

a good jazz method is from Sher Music 'the bass improvisors method' http://www.shermusic.com/tibm.htm. it includes some good discussion of building bass lines, and some transcribed jazz bass solos. as well as lots of ideas for building your own studies to work on.

[BVD Press]

Uber Melodies for tuba or bass trombone (the only one of these mentioned I don't own )

If you like the David Uber's music, after he passed his family called me and asked me to help go through his published and unpublished music. In this music, I find a huge pile of tuba etudes and a book of Trombone/Euphonium etudes. With thier blessing, I stuck the music into Finale and put into publication:

1494 Uber, D Progessive Tuba Etudes, vol. 3 Tuba Methods/Studies/Etudes 29 Etudes $12.00
1496 Uber, D Solo Etudes for Euphonium Euphonium Methods/Studies/Etudes 12 Advanced Etudes $10.00
1495 Uber, D Solo Etudes for Tuba Tuba Methods/Studies/Etudes 12 Advanced Etudes $10.00
1492 Uber, D Progessive Tuba Etudes, vol. 1 Tuba Methods/Studies/Etudes 27 Etudes $12.00
1493 Uber, D Progessive Tuba Etudes, vol. 2 Tuba Methods/Studies/Etudes 30 Etudes $12.00

They are available from your favorite sheet music dealer and published by Cimarron Music Press. The etudes are fun, in many meters and keys and are great for sight reading if you are an advanced player and great to work on if you are a novice or younger player. I play through the books every month or so just to keep in shape.

I have a pile of other charts from David Uber that I hope to get out over the next year or so. In this group of pieces, there are a bunch of solos, trios, quartets, etc.

I would also give a big plug for the Snedecor set. Some really good stuff!