Favorite method books

Captain Sousie · Post by **Captain Sousie** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 4:47 pm

I am trying to start up my own tuba studio for young/intermediate players and I was wondering if anybody had any suggestions for good method books. I have some favorites like the Bell, Blazevich, etc. but I would like some ideas for more.
If possible, can you please add reasons why you like a specific method?

Thaks a lot,

Sousie

Ames0325 · Post by **Ames0325** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 6:45 pm

The Standard of Excellence books by Bruce Pearson are excellent, though they are geared more towards using in a group setting but they have alot of nice melodic material as well as technical studies. They also have solos and duets for students to work on for performance. I also like the Rubank method books. I like the the Blazhevich a lot but they may be to difficult for beginning/intermediate players. Also another bok that is not too difficult but very good is 60 Musical Studies (vocalises of Concone and Marchesi) edited by David Kuehn (published by Southern Music). These are very nice melodic etudes with the purpose of teaching a tuba player musicality phrasing, dynamics, etc.

Amy

dopey · Post by **dopey** » Thu Nov 18, 2004 6:48 pm

The books which all region is chosen from, here in arkansas, is the Robert Getchell Second book of practical studies, as well Woodruff's 24 artistic studies for tubas.

Both books are very good in my opinion. The woodruff deals alot more with range and melodic pieces(has alot of blaz, and other long names that I cant' pronounce well, in it). While the getchell has alot more technical pieces with a much easier range.

Also they have a first book of practical studies, which is where the jr high all region pieces are chosen from (well some of them).