@pillsburyjoeboy95 For fuck sake, i am a tuba player and ive been playing for 18 years. Just because its the recommended range of a tuba doesnt mean that its the only notes. Professional tuba players can easily play 3-4 octaves just go listen to some les neish or oystein baadsvick. And an octave is just a C to a C or a B to a B ect. Doesnt matter if it sounds shit its still an octave, go learn some fucking theory
long tones. lots and lots of long tones. make sure your sound isn't blatty and nasaly. The better tuba players have a nice warm tone that just fills the room with a great sound. Fixing the nasal sound will help with that.
@PandDfishingpals My suggestion would be first make sure you have your mouth open and teeth apart. 2nd make sure you a blowing through the horn and providing plenty of wind. 3rd make sure the mouthpiece that you have suits you and the horn. In an ideal world you'd take the horn to a store and try a number of mouthpieces. As you are in middle school, just keep playing and you'll develop your tone! :)
Lol this is great! I'm a woodwind guy and scales are easy on them, but on brass...holy crap xD I tried trumpet and euphonium once and I could barely do the Bb scale (one octave). But good job!! =DD
Technically, he didnt play the first octave, because there is no deffinite C fingering in the lower regist, the Tuba switches from C sharp 1-2-3-4 , to Bb Pedal Tone
@MaddieLPSx Woodwind instruments have a definite lowest note and a definite highest note playable. Brass has a definite lowest note (depends on how much tubing is available) and a infinte range going up. Sooo Theoretically the Tuba is the 2nd lowest instrument (2nd to the piano) and can play higher than a flute.
@Blademaster066 actually, there are people that can play more than four octave scales. I have seen some people do six octaves. With a brass instrument, the range is virtually unlimited.
@blademaster066 I agree with you bro!! Thank you for telling him that! People who aren't musically inclined and try to tell those who know what we are doing what to do or act like know-it-all birds [LoZ] are total losers
Your notes below beginners Bb sounded like crap and and the last octave was way out of tune. But the fact that you can go to that last octave is very impressive.
@pillsburyjoeboy95 no dumbass there is actually 4, tuba, trombone, trumpet, and flute. get your facts right you non musical failing piece of shit, i hate when people hate and troll because they have no actual talent
Your Bb3 and up sound horribly out of tune. Practice those "high" notes with a tuner so you play them correctly. At times it seemed like you were playing a Db Major scale up there.
Wrong. The amount of octaves is not limited by what YOU can play. Study a little bit of theory, spend some time in the practice room, and quit trolling this dude. You receive a thumbs down.
@mookiekins Actually, on a brass instrument your range is only limited by what pitches you can physically make your lips vibrate. On woodwinds that doesn't hold true, of course. As a trombone player, I can play equally as low as a tuba player in their pedals and can compete fairly well with the trumpets in their high range. Obviously it doesn't sound quite as good as the respective instruments, but it's playable.
@Hunter623 I agree; a trumpet is about three octives higher that a trumpet, which means he's playing well into the treble cleft (something I haven't been able to do yet lol). I showed this to my music teacher and even he was impressed. This guy has crazy range.
@mookiekins hey, Dumb-ass, i study some theory and ive played low brass (mostly tuba) for FUCKING YEARS and if you have ever looked a t a fingering chart, which u probably do a lot with your amateur playing abilities, you will fail to see a B-flat that is more that five bars below the staff, nor will you see one more than one bar above the staff. so that shit he called a scale only has two technical octaves the rest is made up is make believe bull shit! thumbs down to who?
@TomAndJerry87 hey!, do your mother fucking self a god damn favor and watch that video again, does that look like a marimba? Or a piano? Or a flute? to you? im talking about a tuba scale! not any percussion or woodwind pieces of shit! Fail?
@pillsburyjoeboy95 Not really, you take the concert b flat down an octave and go from there, its easier with a four valve but do able on a three. Once you get above the B flat on top of the staff the partials become so close together its difficult to distinguish the notes. But there are more then two octaves, Im a high school student and i can play a three octave
@kprocks1 no, in all technicality, the b-flat only has two real octaves on a tuba. if u can play a "third" it probably sound bad, but what can u expect when the are not real notes? oh and being in high school? that doesnt help in argument to say that.
@pillsburyjoeboy95 ever studied theory? Just because the notes sound out of tune doesnt mean they arent real notes, The comfortable range of a tuba is two B flats, but the instrument actually has the greatest range of almost any brass instrument, except for the french horn. If you dont believe me, consult the Arban Method book, And dont insult peoples playing ability when you've never heard them before. If i sit in front of a scroll tuner and play a peddle B flat, guess what? Its a B Flat.
nice. this is my sisters account, and i play the tuba to. i'm having to know to play tomorrow, all scales, in order. and going up more octaves will give me extra points. so thank you for this video, because i have been looking for a video with 4 octaves in it for the b scale, so thank you.:)
Actually, he hit that triple high Bb pretty decently. That's what it sounds like that high. (I've tried to hit it, and I have done it successfully. If I have a high quality tuba, it's not that hard, but it's almost impossible on anything worse than a Mirafone.)
that was very impressive honestly, you truly have incredible range, I can play Bb in 2 octaves on the tuba, but that extremely low one and extremely high one are out of my range, bravo.
im in 7th grade and i play a 3/4 BB flat tuba and i can almost get 3 octaves on the E natural cocert scale. cuz on my fingering chart thats how high and low it says it can go from e to an e 3 octaves higher than that
Thats only slightly impressive , the real trick to being good at playing those higher octaves is being able to control it coming down. its easy to go one step at a time up , but coming down without loosing your chops is harder
i've been playing trombone in the jazz band for about a year now. just picked it up this year. ic an play from the pedal Bb up 3 octaves, 2 octaves from the tuning Bb. triggers ftw!
Interesting, the B-flat trumpet playing written C major scales uses the same fingerings as a Tuba (C-instrument, right?) playing B-flat. So if they played in unison would the fingerings be any different?
@CantaloupeKingMusic On B-flat tubas, like this one, the same fingerings will produce the same 'unison' notes, but if it were to be on a C tuba, the same fingerings would make the notes a whole step lower than the trumpet.
understand a Trumpet reads a C and plays a Bb, where as the Tuba reads a Bb and plays a Bb, both instruments play Bb on their open fundamental. So yes they will finger the same if their playing 2 octaves apart.
nice ive only been olaying for 1 and 1/2 years but i can play 3 octave B flat scale. i cant quite get as low as you yet. but my friend that made all state as a freshman in highschool can do it
Po cara fica esperto vc nem sabe se o rapaz esta aprendendo tocar , nem sabe qto tempo ele tem de instrumento, se vc for tao bom posta um video seu e outra ele nao tem embocadura de "trumpet", ele tem embocadura de tuba pois nao se se vc prestou atençao mas ele esta tocando uma tuba seu babacao
that is so hard to do! i hit the whole range on tuba today and like died! idk if i'll ever be able to do it again. but still! anyways. awesome job dude.
lol the tuba is lower than the octo contrabass clarinet (Actually I think its just as low as the Tuba). Seriously the bass clarinet doesn't go very low.
Bass Clarinet gets to about D2 at the lowest, so yes a good Tuba player can get WAY lower, I can get to about Ab0/G0 on a BBb Tuba (with the usual buzz embouchure, and below Eb0 w/ a timed flutter tongue) However, a 64' Stop on which some Organs have can beat even that Clarinet reaching to C -2.
the number of valves doesn't mean anything...as long as i have at least 3, i can get 4+ octaves...my range is actually slightly better even on my 3 valver than my 5 valver
yeah dude i got a scale sheet for 4 valve tubas offline a few months ago and i've been practicing almost every day and for some reason i can't hit that LOW Bb but i can play every note of the chromatic from the lowest B natural up to the highest Eb and i thought that was hard.... this just blows that completely out of the water
Yeah, it's hard to hit those falsettos on tuba because of the fact there is no resistance on the lips due to the huge mouthpiece. The highest not i can hit is a F above the staff, and the lowest is an E 3 octaves below the staff. So yeah this guy really trains his embouchure.
My guess is that you are referring E 2 below. (Say two below really fast... it's a pun =D) If you can hit E 3 below... that's freaking impressive. I can hit the F above the staff too, and the G about half the time. The rest all the way up to that Bb iI never made a clean sound out of, although I do "kind of" hit them.
This guy didn't play the highest notes on the scale too cleanly, but it's cleaner than what I can do so far.
Did you ever stop and think that not all tubas are concert pitch? That could be a C,Bb, or Eb,(or even others) so saying the fingerings are wrong is just stupid. Not to mention that the scales were pretty damn accurate, so the fingerings couldn't be all that far off, if at all. Think before you post.
A) I know for certain that a C tuba will be different fingerings than a Bb tuba. Thats a fact. And there are also obscure tubas out there that don't finger the same way either. I talked with a Bass tubist from fountain city, my brass instructor and, band director. You could have the Eb right though, but thats one type. ALL types of tubas won't finger the same. Period.
B) I happen to be graduating this year which gives me about three years of playing on you in school, and 2 years before.
All tubas are concert pitch unless your playing brass band music which it is then a transposition instrument. All tubas play the same with regard to buzzing, only difference is fingering since its fundamental pitch is different.
C) I never called you names, never said I can play better than you, and sure as hell never said I could play the tuba that well. But, I have had a bit more education in brass music than the average player of my age. And again, I am friends with a tubist from the fountain city brass band, who has also explained about brass instrument principles. Maybe I am an asshole, but saying that because I told you you were wrong isn't the reason why.
they are different- thats a Bb- the low low notes are subjective by horn- on one i play 1 and 4 for EEb- another i'll do 1 2 and 4- its for tuning- so- learn the full mechanics and alternate fingerings for every note on EVERY key of tuba before you go into a world you have harldy discovered.
and you youtubers have to stop saying the fingerings are wrong. there are manyyy optional fingerings, for every SPECIFIC tuba. as long as the pitch was right who caress about the fingerings?
I agree, there r many alternate fingerings since and each alternative helps to get notes more intune depending on interval and through the overtones. I would say fingerings in the really low register is left up to the player since those need to be tweaked in order to be in tune
@pillsburyjoeboy95 For fuck sake, i am a tuba player and ive been playing for 18 years. Just because its the recommended range of a tuba doesnt mean that its the only notes. Professional tuba players can easily play 3-4 octaves just go listen to some les neish or oystein baadsvick. And an octave is just a C to a C or a B to a B ect. Doesnt matter if it sounds shit its still an octave, go learn some fucking theory
lachlanmclean1990 2 days ago
if you play euphonium BEFORE you play the tube your note range will be a lot better and you will be more experience
Username22481 2 weeks ago
im better than that... and dude.... ive only played for 2 years XD
dmnoob 3 weeks ago
Nice
MrPherguson 3 weeks ago
Trumpeter
tptman001 1 month ago
@2010MRHBK sure you can. mind posting a video of it?
jamesiann 1 month ago
ive done this a few times. all i can is is ouch ;p
K00lstorybrah 2 months ago
im in middle school and can play 3 2 octave scales working on 4 but im not in top band cause i hav bad tone...any suggestions 4 tone?
PandDfishingpals 2 months ago
@PandDfishingpals
long tones. lots and lots of long tones. make sure your sound isn't blatty and nasaly. The better tuba players have a nice warm tone that just fills the room with a great sound. Fixing the nasal sound will help with that.
TMNoob3 2 months ago 2
@PandDfishingpals My suggestion would be first make sure you have your mouth open and teeth apart. 2nd make sure you a blowing through the horn and providing plenty of wind. 3rd make sure the mouthpiece that you have suits you and the horn. In an ideal world you'd take the horn to a store and try a number of mouthpieces. As you are in middle school, just keep playing and you'll develop your tone! :)
steamboat75043 2 months ago
yeah I used to do that. fun stuff.
noddwyd 2 months ago
Lol this is great! I'm a woodwind guy and scales are easy on them, but on brass...holy crap xD I tried trumpet and euphonium once and I could barely do the Bb scale (one octave). But good job!! =DD
icickel 2 months ago
marvelous
000uncleleslie 3 months ago
lol
feokffoeapf 3 months ago
Technically, he didnt play the first octave, because there is no deffinite C fingering in the lower regist, the Tuba switches from C sharp 1-2-3-4 , to Bb Pedal Tone
Tubbytheasheton 3 months ago
crap i cant even play a two octave
RoGu3xNiNjUh 3 months ago
Hah. That's my Bb. I thank god I play Euphonium!
Puppetchimera 3 months ago
VERY FLAT IN THE LAST OCTAVE
ACrotts762nato 3 months ago
I didn't know a tuba could go that high. O_O
MaddieLPSx 3 months ago
@MaddieLPSx Woodwind instruments have a definite lowest note and a definite highest note playable. Brass has a definite lowest note (depends on how much tubing is available) and a infinte range going up. Sooo Theoretically the Tuba is the 2nd lowest instrument (2nd to the piano) and can play higher than a flute.
OldChikity 3 months ago
@OldChikity except contrabassoon can play lower then both tuba AND piano, i think :)
pwebsers 1 month ago
wow four octaves, i can play 5 octaves!!!(just saying)
2010MRHBK 3 months ago
@2010MRHBK as can I, but on euphonium. and with a much better tone than this schmuck
boistrousjim 3 months ago
Is that a Mazda engine?
jesemus33 4 months ago 8
Lol... haters gonna hate
Its not that serious. So what if it sounded bad, the point was he was showing a general idea of 4 octive scaled on a tuba.
chill .
kthxbai
jonathan4178 4 months ago
good job! The one tuba in our band can barely play!
MrTransman99 4 months ago
@MrTransman99 i know what you mean, we have four tuba players, but im the only who really plays!
manwild666 3 weeks ago
@Blademaster066 actually, there are people that can play more than four octave scales. I have seen some people do six octaves. With a brass instrument, the range is virtually unlimited.
tubaeuphboyemk4 4 months ago
@tubaeuphboyemk4 That is, until you can close your lips to a one atom sized hole, and yet skill makes a noise in the brass instrument.
l2udolph 3 months ago
That guy can play higher then my, a trombonist.
hatmagician101 4 months ago
@blademaster066 I agree with you bro!! Thank you for telling him that! People who aren't musically inclined and try to tell those who know what we are doing what to do or act like know-it-all birds [LoZ] are total losers
KOSPink 4 months ago
Your notes below beginners Bb sounded like crap and and the last octave was way out of tune. But the fact that you can go to that last octave is very impressive.
kingpin2897 4 months ago
Horrible.
9brain5 4 months ago
your tuba isnt big enough
717chris1 4 months ago
@pillsburyjoeboy95 no dumbass there is actually 4, tuba, trombone, trumpet, and flute. get your facts right you non musical failing piece of shit, i hate when people hate and troll because they have no actual talent
Blademaster066 4 months ago
@Blademaster066 what do instruments have to do with octaves? unless you men't bass, tenor, alto, soprano
tryianid 4 months ago
dude learn how to play tuba and then maybe you can do some videos but anyways your tuba is awesome
TheCANdu94 4 months ago
that is a huge tuba
mp5guy288 6 months ago
ok, Now play us a solo piece using YOUR 4 octaves !?
tubistinha 6 months ago
Your Bb3 and up sound horribly out of tune. Practice those "high" notes with a tuner so you play them correctly. At times it seemed like you were playing a Db Major scale up there.
ExternalGod 6 months ago
Cómo costó el final!!! Pero llegaste, Bien!
pasadoporagua 6 months ago
deu umas no ovo é certo
EricksonXuxa 7 months ago
honestly that was some amateur crap theres only two actual octaves of a b flat scale and the ones you made up sounded like ass
pillsburyjoeboy95 7 months ago
@pillsburyjoeboy95
Wrong. The amount of octaves is not limited by what YOU can play. Study a little bit of theory, spend some time in the practice room, and quit trolling this dude. You receive a thumbs down.
mookiekins 3 months ago 9
@mookiekins Actually, on a brass instrument your range is only limited by what pitches you can physically make your lips vibrate. On woodwinds that doesn't hold true, of course. As a trombone player, I can play equally as low as a tuba player in their pedals and can compete fairly well with the trumpets in their high range. Obviously it doesn't sound quite as good as the respective instruments, but it's playable.
Hunter623 1 month ago
@Hunter623 I agree; a trumpet is about three octives higher that a trumpet, which means he's playing well into the treble cleft (something I haven't been able to do yet lol). I showed this to my music teacher and even he was impressed. This guy has crazy range.
Nickadeedledeedoo 1 month ago in playlist Solo and Ensembles
@mookiekins hey, Dumb-ass, i study some theory and ive played low brass (mostly tuba) for FUCKING YEARS and if you have ever looked a t a fingering chart, which u probably do a lot with your amateur playing abilities, you will fail to see a B-flat that is more that five bars below the staff, nor will you see one more than one bar above the staff. so that shit he called a scale only has two technical octaves the rest is made up is make believe bull shit! thumbs down to who?
pillsburyjoeboy95 6 days ago
@pillsburyjoeboy95
I've only been playing professionally for 20 years, boy. What the hell do I know? Choose your battles, but choose them wisely.
I will not further dignify your drivel with any more of a response. You're apparently too talented for your own good.
mookiekins75 6 days ago
@pillsburyjoeboy95 Wrong! Ever seem a marimba? Or a piano? Or a flute? You fail sir!
TomAndJerry87 2 months ago
@TomAndJerry87 hey!, do your mother fucking self a god damn favor and watch that video again, does that look like a marimba? Or a piano? Or a flute? to you? im talking about a tuba scale! not any percussion or woodwind pieces of shit! Fail?
pillsburyjoeboy95 6 days ago
@pillsburyjoeboy95 Not really, you take the concert b flat down an octave and go from there, its easier with a four valve but do able on a three. Once you get above the B flat on top of the staff the partials become so close together its difficult to distinguish the notes. But there are more then two octaves, Im a high school student and i can play a three octave
kprocks1 1 week ago
@kprocks1 no, in all technicality, the b-flat only has two real octaves on a tuba. if u can play a "third" it probably sound bad, but what can u expect when the are not real notes? oh and being in high school? that doesnt help in argument to say that.
pillsburyjoeboy95 6 days ago
@pillsburyjoeboy95 ever studied theory? Just because the notes sound out of tune doesnt mean they arent real notes, The comfortable range of a tuba is two B flats, but the instrument actually has the greatest range of almost any brass instrument, except for the french horn. If you dont believe me, consult the Arban Method book, And dont insult peoples playing ability when you've never heard them before. If i sit in front of a scroll tuner and play a peddle B flat, guess what? Its a B Flat.
kprocks1 3 days ago
as soon as i get a 4 valve, i will do 3 octaves, if thats any good
ChristinaTheTuba 8 months ago
im not sure, but it sounded like you made the last few sounds by humming into the instrument
shmkane 9 months ago
what happened to going down?
Mike23izeup 10 months ago
You Tuba
EdsonYamamoto 1 year ago
Nice blowin' =D
emmasilveira 1 year ago
dat waz nice and i love dat tuba
swackiller 1 year ago
go you
Philbatrom 1 year ago
very nice rotary valve tuba and very good
talley403 1 year ago
nice. this is my sisters account, and i play the tuba to. i'm having to know to play tomorrow, all scales, in order. and going up more octaves will give me extra points. so thank you for this video, because i have been looking for a video with 4 octaves in it for the b scale, so thank you.:)
KangarooJoey11 1 year ago
you suck
WGbandgeek 1 year ago
jesus christ...
biggatahata 1 year ago
um try a diff valve for the high ones. sounds sharp or flat. idk which
meis2steph11 1 year ago
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@meis2steph11 he just needs to tune
talley403 1 year ago
omg i can nevr play dat high
Firemanfh12351 1 year ago
Good job man but can i say one thing to improve on... Work on your breathing but other than that great job:)
wazupbrothersandsis 1 year ago
four key <3
Froob1013 1 year ago
i got 6..........
ccapello123 1 year ago
there's some heavy construction going on at 0:05 to 0:10
6eggc 1 year ago
wtf is this ?
gatorbone27 1 year ago
im a senior in high school and can play a four octave Bb scale.
8847Josh 1 year ago
so beautiful!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
doughboi54 1 year ago
Actually, he hit that triple high Bb pretty decently. That's what it sounds like that high. (I've tried to hit it, and I have done it successfully. If I have a high quality tuba, it's not that hard, but it's almost impossible on anything worse than a Mirafone.)
Tanks4meSTC 1 year ago
This is Bs. you only go to the G. not the BBb. might wanna change the title of this video. cause you failed.
jorgealarcon2012 1 year ago
it sounds like you were singing and yelling lol
kingofkings6161 1 year ago
WoW i cant even get that high on a trombone.
StevaB793 1 year ago
@StevaB793 wat kind of trombone do u play bass?
MrLexington45 1 year ago
lol!
juaniluco888 1 year ago
wow the higher notes almost sound like a french horn in a way :o
UmmPancakes 1 year ago
I can do 3 octave on all of mine, yet I haven't been able to get that high. Amazing.
ic3drag0n100 1 year ago
I didn't know the Bb scale had G flat and A flat in it. Wow.
ChuckAvalon 1 year ago
I like how begins the video "Hey how you doin'?"
themouseofevil 1 year ago
that was very impressive honestly, you truly have incredible range, I can play Bb in 2 octaves on the tuba, but that extremely low one and extremely high one are out of my range, bravo.
mjay1693 1 year ago
Beautiful BBb Marzan horn!
MCordon1 1 year ago 5
@MCordon1 Miraphone 189
bmck12 1 year ago 13
play it with out cracking notes because theres a difference between playing a scale and PLAYING a scale
monkeyvstrex 2 years ago
top note was sung.
skate4fun21 2 years ago
im in 7th grade and i play a 3/4 BB flat tuba and i can almost get 3 octaves on the E natural cocert scale. cuz on my fingering chart thats how high and low it says it can go from e to an e 3 octaves higher than that
Lukerdude51 2 years ago
Thats only slightly impressive , the real trick to being good at playing those higher octaves is being able to control it coming down. its easy to go one step at a time up , but coming down without loosing your chops is harder
sicus5D 2 years ago
Pretty awesome, check out my video of me playing A flat 3 octaves, it's only audio but please leave suggestions.
mstatefan326 2 years ago
try not to brete so much
101TUBAMAN 2 years ago
not bad work on the low notes i have trouble with them 2 were u pullin somethin with ur thumb cuz if u do i wanna get one of those tubas
BigmoneyBrickwall 2 years ago
You hit a G......and sung the rest, work on the low range
russiantuba 2 years ago 49
@russiantuba
well someone is jealous
Hillebrand1 9 months ago
i've been playing trombone in the jazz band for about a year now. just picked it up this year. ic an play from the pedal Bb up 3 octaves, 2 octaves from the tuning Bb. triggers ftw!
n00dlepwm 2 years ago
Interesting, the B-flat trumpet playing written C major scales uses the same fingerings as a Tuba (C-instrument, right?) playing B-flat. So if they played in unison would the fingerings be any different?
CantaloupeKingMusic 2 years ago
@CantaloupeKingMusic On B-flat tubas, like this one, the same fingerings will produce the same 'unison' notes, but if it were to be on a C tuba, the same fingerings would make the notes a whole step lower than the trumpet.
rubix12321 2 years ago
understand a Trumpet reads a C and plays a Bb, where as the Tuba reads a Bb and plays a Bb, both instruments play Bb on their open fundamental. So yes they will finger the same if their playing 2 octaves apart.
Justintime4math 2 years ago
nice ive only been olaying for 1 and 1/2 years but i can play 3 octave B flat scale. i cant quite get as low as you yet. but my friend that made all state as a freshman in highschool can do it
vfvboyz 2 years ago
nice
DDtuba7 2 years ago
fail
honkeymcgee 2 years ago
I can only do 3 octaves...meh....
but thats on a three value tuba
ChuckNorrisBeatMeUp 2 years ago
Wicked Tuba
Schwarzi1 2 years ago
quiet some skill you have, keep it up :)
greaver198 2 years ago
Po cara fica esperto vc nem sabe se o rapaz esta aprendendo tocar , nem sabe qto tempo ele tem de instrumento, se vc for tao bom posta um video seu e outra ele nao tem embocadura de "trumpet", ele tem embocadura de tuba pois nao se se vc prestou atençao mas ele esta tocando uma tuba seu babacao
maleis 2 years ago
that is so hard to do! i hit the whole range on tuba today and like died! idk if i'll ever be able to do it again. but still! anyways. awesome job dude.
Tubadude03 2 years ago
vai aprender tirar som meu irmão.. depois vc posta.. sua embocadura tem formato para quem toca trumpet.
heliandrobass 2 years ago
respect man
panczenPL 2 years ago
man those high notes... I always hit em little flat.
saxmasta 2 years ago
I haven't seen a Marzan tuba in years.
robsimmons1 2 years ago
write back as soon as possible PLEASE i need an answer
doublethelowc 2 years ago
ok.
bmck12 2 years ago 13
wow nice those high notes are a bitch to hit
Slaschow 2 years ago
jd sumner can go like 1 octave and a half lower than this im serious actually 2 write back PLEASE.
doublethelowc 2 years ago
That is usually achieved by a timed flutter tongue rather than the usual buzzing embouchure.
Justintime4math 2 years ago
i can do that
Philbatrom 2 years ago
is the tuba lower than the tuba lower than the bass clarinet
doublethelowc 2 years ago
lol the tuba is lower than the octo contrabass clarinet (Actually I think its just as low as the Tuba). Seriously the bass clarinet doesn't go very low.
JAT9151 2 years ago
Are you kidding me? The Octo Contrabass Clarinet hits a Bb -1 which way lower than a tuba. A contrabass clarinet is within the range of a tuba.
CorvetteCoonass 2 years ago
i think the tuba can play lower than a bass clarinet tho... but i think the bass clarinet is the tuba of the woodwinds...
hybridbeserk 2 years ago
Bass Clarinet gets to about D2 at the lowest, so yes a good Tuba player can get WAY lower, I can get to about Ab0/G0 on a BBb Tuba (with the usual buzz embouchure, and below Eb0 w/ a timed flutter tongue) However, a 64' Stop on which some Organs have can beat even that Clarinet reaching to C -2.
Justintime4math 2 years ago
nice
jocobo99 2 years ago
that seemed very hard 4 you
OrpheusXTheXGOD 2 years ago
thats not fair...you got four valved tuba
FEETAMYBEETA 2 years ago
the number of valves doesn't mean anything...as long as i have at least 3, i can get 4+ octaves...my range is actually slightly better even on my 3 valver than my 5 valver
nyysfan 2 years ago
i got 5 :]
cresentman 2 years ago
son of a bitch!!!!
Drummer349 2 years ago
nice...
watch a couple of those notes...
BAAAHAHAHA
JWITBECK 2 years ago
what the fuck
LOTSOFHOBBIES 2 years ago
ow my ovaries
LOTSOFHOBBIES 2 years ago
nice miraphone :)my choice of Bb
starofthewesttuba 2 years ago
i know you practiced a lot to play dat i can da lowest Bb flat and the highest i can go is da f above the staff.... its fuckin' haard!!!!!
ElMexicanLoco 2 years ago
what model miraphone is that?
williebeaty 2 years ago
holy crap. thats a b flat tumpet's tuning c
ThatCubeGuy 2 years ago
wow....none of u know how hard it is to do that. anyone who thinks thats easy is a loser, and should prob kill them selves lol
Jalapeanut 2 years ago
yeah dude i got a scale sheet for 4 valve tubas offline a few months ago and i've been practicing almost every day and for some reason i can't hit that LOW Bb but i can play every note of the chromatic from the lowest B natural up to the highest Eb and i thought that was hard.... this just blows that completely out of the water
Tubadude03 2 years ago
Yeah, it's hard to hit those falsettos on tuba because of the fact there is no resistance on the lips due to the huge mouthpiece. The highest not i can hit is a F above the staff, and the lowest is an E 3 octaves below the staff. So yeah this guy really trains his embouchure.
CorvetteCoonass 2 years ago
My guess is that you are referring E 2 below. (Say two below really fast... it's a pun =D) If you can hit E 3 below... that's freaking impressive. I can hit the F above the staff too, and the G about half the time. The rest all the way up to that Bb iI never made a clean sound out of, although I do "kind of" hit them.
This guy didn't play the highest notes on the scale too cleanly, but it's cleaner than what I can do so far.
Tanks4meSTC 2 years ago
nice miraphone
GunzTheDuel 2 years ago 2
that's fuckt up
LOTSOFHOBBIES 2 years ago
just because you are doing the fingerings (not all right btw) doesng mean you made the scale.
I'm a freshman gurl in high school and i can play the 4 octive scale on tuba
Smithie2012 2 years ago
Did you ever stop and think that not all tubas are concert pitch? That could be a C,Bb, or Eb,(or even others) so saying the fingerings are wrong is just stupid. Not to mention that the scales were pretty damn accurate, so the fingerings couldn't be all that far off, if at all. Think before you post.
bassbone1785 2 years ago
the Bb scale has the same fingerings on all the tubas 1st of all
and what the hell makes you such a damn expert??
i asked a damn music major before i posted my comment asshole
Smithie2012 2 years ago
A) I know for certain that a C tuba will be different fingerings than a Bb tuba. Thats a fact. And there are also obscure tubas out there that don't finger the same way either. I talked with a Bass tubist from fountain city, my brass instructor and, band director. You could have the Eb right though, but thats one type. ALL types of tubas won't finger the same. Period.
B) I happen to be graduating this year which gives me about three years of playing on you in school, and 2 years before.
bassbone1785 2 years ago
All tubas are concert pitch unless your playing brass band music which it is then a transposition instrument. All tubas play the same with regard to buzzing, only difference is fingering since its fundamental pitch is different.
GunzTheDuel 2 years ago
C) I never called you names, never said I can play better than you, and sure as hell never said I could play the tuba that well. But, I have had a bit more education in brass music than the average player of my age. And again, I am friends with a tubist from the fountain city brass band, who has also explained about brass instrument principles. Maybe I am an asshole, but saying that because I told you you were wrong isn't the reason why.
bassbone1785 2 years ago
u must be pretty desperate to prove someone wrong
1337ScubaTal 2 years ago
it's called dedication..
Piano4Lyfex3 2 years ago
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Bbobe900000 2 years ago
they are different- thats a Bb- the low low notes are subjective by horn- on one i play 1 and 4 for EEb- another i'll do 1 2 and 4- its for tuning- so- learn the full mechanics and alternate fingerings for every note on EVERY key of tuba before you go into a world you have harldy discovered.
starofthewesttuba 2 years ago
octave*
and you youtubers have to stop saying the fingerings are wrong. there are manyyy optional fingerings, for every SPECIFIC tuba. as long as the pitch was right who caress about the fingerings?
Piano4Lyfex3 2 years ago
I agree, there r many alternate fingerings since and each alternative helps to get notes more intune depending on interval and through the overtones. I would say fingerings in the really low register is left up to the player since those need to be tweaked in order to be in tune
GunzTheDuel 2 years ago
I could not play a tuba because it would ruin my trumpet chops but I guess I could play a marching sousaphone
trombonetrumpetkid 2 years ago
its the same thing
MarvinAleman210 2 years ago 5
this fatso needs to actually learn how to play
ParadoxBros 3 years ago
You play it.
Jackp678 2 years ago
you were singing into the horn at the end, doesn't count
skate4fun21 3 years ago