Strawman.tubashaman2 wrote:Todd, I do not have a single recording of my F on acidplanet, and I meant tone quality wise, I have not perfected anything, my undergrad stuff is not perfect, and yours was not to Bobo level, otherwise you would be a pro tubist now.
A lot of folks release CDs, commission works, etc as part of the academic process. I'm sure you're familiar with tenure and the process to receive it. Publish or perish. CDs are "publishing".Why do we release CDs. Why did Carol, Zerkel, Ben Pierce, Joe Skillen release CDs? For profit, or sharing their intrepretations. Baadsvik might make a little money on his CDs but not much, but people will listen, and it will either help or hurt your name on tuba, mainly help.
Sometimes you have to take things at face value.The people who say I sound like Bobo TONE WISE are tubists.......a couple of them being professionals on tuba saying my tone resembles his.
I am unclear what your point is in this conjecture. Are you citing the growing field of academic positions? Or referencing professionals who have to sustain multiple streams of revenue?Todd, not to chew you out, I know you are being realistic, but honestly do you think that in my generation there will be pro tubists teaching college, recording, playing in major Orchestras, from people around my age. People say it is getting more competitive, and more younger people are playing tuba, so eventually there will be more jobs if the economy will improve, and you can't shoot down my dream. I honestly can't see a university having 15 tuba/euph majors with 10 trombone majors with no fulltime low brass professor.
I don't know Todd from my elbow, but I know he has been referenced in the old TUBA journal and has played in the Disney AACB. He has played along side guys like Mike Roylance. I have a feeling he has a better general idea of what it's like being a professional musician than you do, just because of his record. While his ability to knock out those pieces now might not be at your level, that doesn't mean he doesn't have the ability to listen to your recordings and identify some weaknesses in your playing. He was far from chewing you out, but your record with him in this medium already has you on the defensive. I think if you met a guy like Todd in real life, he'd be happy to buy you a beer and give you some excellent advice from a different perspective.Todd, before you chew out my recordings, will you please post recent recordings of you doing:
Plog 3 miniatures
Kraft Encounters 2
and the Casterede Sonatina, or any of the literature I did.
I know you say we struggle with such, but it seemed to me you were chewing me out and saying I was pretty bad, instead of saying performers in general, so you have any recordings for us
Also, you can't call people out for not seeking to be professional tuba players. Todd didn't and many of us also passed on that path. I can guarantee that there are a lot of players who are not "pros" who could have in the past and possibly in the present hand you your hat in regards to playing. Not an insult. Some folks just don't want to be musicians as a career. But that doesn't mean they aren't kick *** players. And even if they aren't now, they still may have achieved a very high level of playing at one point in their life. Would you ask Warren Deck to play excerpts to "prove" his ability to critique your playing?
Just don't strap yourself with additional debt before you even know what you'll be doing in grad school. Play what you've got. Make that 180 earn enough income to buy your next F. If you can do that, then you'll really be ready to judge what F will be best for you in the future.An new F won't be a toy....
...............ha?
