Tuba Player's Bucket List?

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Just for fun, I thought I'd start a thread about a Tuba Player's Bucket List. Post your top tuba related things that are on your bucket list. Here's some of mine,

-Meet Patrick Sheridan
-Go to V&E Historical Tuba Center in North Carolina
-Go to a Tuba Convention
-Play tuba in Europe
-Get into a symphony that tours the world
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Win a concerto contest and play with the orchestra. Making the lever entry recording today. Recording the first two movements of Reflection on the Mississippi with piano. If I get past that I play in person with piano. The good news is the judges love the piece I am playing.
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Start my life over again.

This time with talent!!

At least I got a shot at these two...

-Go to V&E Historical Tuba Center in North Carolina
-Go to a Tuba Convention (Other than FT Myer)
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bloke wrote:Play Mahler 2 with a really competent ensemble.
Yep. That's an excellent aspiration. Especially with a group like this.

https://youtu.be/jpngMjN6fmQ?t=4" target="_blank

Also, the San Francisco Symphony and Chorus' performance a few years ago was one of the most thrilling musical experiences I've been privileged to hear. I was seated on the side row near the stage, about 30' from the brass section. Tubist Jeff Anderson and his brass colleagues produced some very lovely and sacred moments, especially in the brass chorale section.

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Oldschooltuba wrote:Win a concerto contest and play with the orchestra. Making the lever entry recording today. Recording the first two movements of Reflection on the Mississippi with piano. If I get past that I play in person with piano. The good news is the judges love the piece I am playing.
I too have wanted to go out for a concerto contest. What concerto contest are you auditioning for?
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Travel to Germany and tour all the big (and small) tuba manufacturing firms (especially around Markneukirchen), and as an added bonus, become proficient enough in German to converse without making a fool of myself..... :oops:
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My bucket list: be able to swing a walking bass line on tuba
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bloke wrote:Please apply for admission to blokeplace Conservatory.
We do have a work-study program
I don’t think i’d survive!

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Get hired to play 4'33" on an A-sharp tuba
Dvorak probably wrote the the fourteen notes in New World Symphony to get his tuba friends a gig.
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From most achievable to least achievable:

-Play at a TubaChristmas... like, at least once. :roll:
-Develop enough lung capacity to not have to take awkward breaths all the time.
-Learn how to walk bass on tuba.
-Own a sousaphone
-Upgrade from 3 valves
-Play jazz tuba in New Orleans
-Play one of those colossal subcontrabass tubas
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roweenie wrote:Travel to Germany and tour all the big (and small) tuba manufacturing firms (especially around Markneukirchen), and as an added bonus, become proficient enough in German to converse without making a fool of myself..... :oops:
This, including Geretsreid, Waldkraiburg and especially Mainz- and find a group there to sit in with.
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I'm calling Viking Cruises now!!
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I've toured Europe several times, and heard tons of bands.... and tuba players. Would love to get good enough to "sit in" with a really good German band.....in Germany. Get good enough to "sit in" with ANY band, actually. Have done it a few times, but feel rather self-conscious instead of totally enjoying the experience. My concerns and lack of confidence, build up just before the downbeat! Once we get it going, I relax a bit and start to enjoy playing. Just once, I'd love to walk in confident enough in my abilities, sit down, and just let 'er rip without a care in the world!!

I know........ put my butt in the chair, and practice, practice, practice!!! And..... I'm doing that. I just wish I'd done it way earlier in life.
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My bucket list would include;

- retiring from the shop, cleaning out the barn of all instruments, and at the end of all that, having one good tuba and one good sousaphone to play and still being able to gig.
- donate some tuba repairs to the National Music Museum, repairing/cleaning at least some of their tuba collection.

- build a set of silver-plated custom CC tubas for Pershing's Own, with the Pershing's Own logo engraved on the bells.

-go to orchestra/other concerts and just enjoy them, instead of analyzing everything and everyone.
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paulver wrote:Have done it a few times, but feel rather self-conscious instead of totally enjoying the experience. My concerns and lack of confidence, build up just before the downbeat!
I know exactly how that is! I am a sophomore in my school's top band (95% seniors) and I was always terrified to play because I thought someone would judge me. There was one saxophone player who was very cocky and flinched every time I played a wrong note and always glared at me but other than that everyone else was very accepting and it was all just in my head.
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Not really a list, and I hate perpetuating stereotypes, but ya know.

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-Play in a band where people actually give a ****
-Play the Vaughan Williams concerto for somebody other than my tuba teacher
-Find a venue that will let me play Six Pack for Tuba while actually drinking beer
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1. Learn to play the tuba.
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I'm gunna need a bigger bucket...
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