I've just finished working with a few local schools as a tuba tech, and I'm already looking ahead to next season. One thing I'm wanting to introduce are chord progressions within the section, for the benefit of them hearing what "in-tune" should sound like, as well as to have a "show-off" warm up moment. My questions is this: Have any of you had experience with tuning chord progressions with JUST a tuba line, and not a full ensemble? And if so, what progression do you suggest? I'm not even sure if this will work or not.
As always, thanks for any and all advice!
Tuba Chord Progression
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swillafew
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Re: Tuba Chord Progression
It sounds tame, but the most productive thing I have done like that is just to match and blend a unison. At Ann Arbor we used to have one person hold the note and others join, and keep doing it until we couldn't get it any better. A diatonic scale was the normal method of building up a routine. The band director would spend time in the rehearsals doing it, and I think that provoked a lot of sectional time on it too. It seemed worth the trouble at the time.
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