Samples of my cooperation with the Bush administration

[imperialbari]

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Of course not the DC Bush administration, but the SC Bush administration of a church-related brass quintet.

Klaus

[Michael Bush]

Cool. I'm thinking I'll post a recording of this with brass quintet, organ, and choir after December 19. I've been grinding away at those low runs every day. Just about got it licked.

[The Big Ben]

Cool. I'm thinking I'll post a recording of this with brass quintet, organ, and choir after December 19. I've been grinding away at those low runs every day. Just about got it licked.

Good for you. I have a heck of a time getting down low. Can't seem to get the lip to vibrate that slow...

[Bob Kolada]

That lower one looks like a fun bass trombone bit (and not too off, going by the lower right hand corner...); when I get back in town I think I'll record it thusly and put it on youtube. Maybe contra.

[imperialbari]

Cool. I'm thinking I'll post a recording of this with brass quintet, organ, and choir after December 19. I've been grinding away at those low runs every day. Just about got it licked.

Good for you. I have a heck of a time getting down low. Can't seem to get the lip to vibrate that slow...

I have some understanding for Ben’s point, as my low BBb range is very mouthpiece sensitive.

I like contrasting order and chaos when writing (where the chaos really has to be played in a very orderly way to be effective, but that is another matter). So to accompany the choir singing the 4th verse in unison, I used a trick I very rarely use in hymn settings for brass quintet: trombone and tuba in octaves. Of course after luring the listeners into expecting no aural harm by letting everybody do a pp unison the first 8 bars.The lower limit was given by the non-valved trombone.

This bass run (or stampeding or whatever) would come out odd if the player alternated between the bass and contrabass octaves, so I actually made 7 versions of the tuba part:

The original one covering 2 octaves and a minor third: low E to G in the upper space.

The same written in treble clef BBb brass band notation

The two above ones for contrabass players not liking their high registers, topping at C and D in the staves respectively.

A bass clef version for bass tubists with low range problems, bottoming at low C (A). Also applicable for euph and bass trombone, and apparently also for some contrabass tubists:

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The same in treble clef versions for Bb euph and Eb tuba.

You can find the full setting for brass-5-tet, organ, and SATB choir via the upper link in my signature. A brass 5-tet may perform this setting alone, but its 2nd trumpet and horn players rather would want the addition of organ or choir or even just a female vocal soloist singing the soprano line.

Klaus

[Michael Bush]

Cool. I'm thinking I'll post a recording of this with brass quintet, organ, and choir after December 19. I've been grinding away at those low runs every day. Just about got it licked.

Good for you. I have a heck of a time getting down low. Can't seem to get the lip to vibrate that slow...

My lips go slow enough, the trick is to push the right buttons at the right moment!