Czardas- Øystein Baadsvik tuba solo

[kevintheblacksmith]

got the music to this today ! cant wait to play it.love this piece so much

[kevintheblacksmith]

Really love to listen to this guy ! love the way he plays

[kevintheblacksmith]

I really love this piece ! Very good job

[Customgamer9]

That's amazing

[MartyFriedmanRulez66]

does anyone know any slow lyrical pieces by him? I really love his tone, but I need a slow legato piece for school

[xfancypants123]

i have a tuba just like that its the best.:D

[bandisallineed951]

I could only dream of being so amazing at tuba.

[elihellsten]

@TheSpiker101

Öystein uses a Bruno Tilz mouthpiece. I do not know what model, though.

[GreatFailsMontana]

I know this sounds cocky but I think I could play this piece, it doesn't seem too beefy fingering-wise and I can double tongue that fast as well.

[thewhiteone102]

why does this guy always remind me of Cash Cab Guy?!?!

[1BIGBUCKEYE9]

search "John fletcher - Czardas" that is much better yes he is a very amazing tuba player but listen to this the triple tounging (which i can not do) is so much clearer and its just all around better also john fletcher is so relaxed when he plays it but unfortunatly the guy who played the piece up there ^^ is dead :( RIP John Fletcher

[felp777]

I wish I could play that song so bad. Too bad being awful at tuba.

[Bulevine]

Good.... God........ man..................

[TBproudoctions]

what type of tuba is that

[steamingcougar]

@TBproudoctions It is a Miraphone Norwegian Star Light. Mr. Baadsvik designed it himself for solo use. It costs about ten thousand dollars in silver plate.

[throwedmayne]

i wanna learn fnugg on euphonium

[ckd34721]

I love how he nonchalantly plays that lick to the fake...person. hahhaha.

[Haritonov46]

For anybody else this would be superb but for Øystein it is so so.

[gefsonferreira]

Toca muito

[TRIMARC1]

troppo bravo ............................

[Crazyrocker1234567]

I play tuba. ive only been playing for 4 months and im advanced lol :D (PLUS IM ONLY 12)

[garylee9966]

@Crazyrocker1234567 "im 12 and wut is this i play tuba and i pro and im 12 lol i better thn god @ tba :D"

[dontwantnofritos]

5 people are trumpet players

[johnsongM16]

SOME ONE PLEASE GIVE ME THE MUSIC!!!

PLEASE!!!

I WANNA BE LIKE HIM SOMEDAY, EXCEPT ASIAN :)

[s74elena]

woodie harlson face !!!!!!!

[hickid1995]

@PaybackTyme The arm over the tuba does help ur air capacity. I use the technique.

[Larnym]

@hickid1995 as long as your arm is long enough so you dont put to much pressure on your shoulder

[PaybackTyme]

@hickid1995 I see!!! thanks for your input, do you just drape it then??? I am interested

[house111031]

!!!wow!!!

[tubamanKevinU8]

This is one of my fav tuba solos. If anyone out there owns it, I would love to have a copy!!!

[Ross7280]

Just few pointers....just kiddin, that was great.

[TheKelleydelley]

this man, is my hero.

[Brasiltelevision2010]

fenomenal,parabens

[Tuba408Bass]

he is really one of those "Douchebag" looking performers. honestly, he is a great musician, but the way he plays just annoys me

[wyzenhyma]

@Tuba408Bass is a hater

[Razonyoftheshadows]

wow this was worth all 4:13, amazing very inspiring

[alerampini]

Sensacional....

[AussieSNPR]

i just orgasmed watching him play im a high school tuba player

[Evans97OMG]

OMG

[stephanosanio]

I just saw a tuba god.

[ErkKnuckle]

he's amazing! I play tuba but only in the eighth grade band at my school!

[unclejuniorsoprano]

I like it much better on the tuba than on the violin. It's been so over-played. I'm very impressed with this performance.

[luchez12]

I'm really close to having my double touging that fast, I can't wait to play this piece for my recital...lol

[2E0N0W2]

i think he's an amazing tuba player, but i think he's a bit too concerned with his image. He always seems a tad cocky, maybe im wrong and its his "showmanship"

[nagonzo]

he looks like the guy from back to the future!!!

[PaybackTyme]

im not gonna slag the guy off because he is better than me, but i think the whole arm over the tuba like that is just lazy and bad for posture :/

[kampori]

@PaybackTyme I agree to an extent, it does look a bit 'cocky', but there IS actually a technical reason for doing what he's doing. A- stretching his arms around to the front of the Tuba stretches his stomach and increases his breath capacity (so he claims), and also he is simply tuning the tuba mid-performance. There are tuning slides where his hands are, and if you look closely during songs like Carnival of Venice (which he told me I can't put up) and Invierno Porteno, you can see him tune

[PaybackTyme]

@kampori ahh right!!!! Thank you for answering me with this :) because im a tuba player also and it just looked very weird to me, thanks for the input!!! :D

[Glarfugus]

@kampori If you look on his website, he claims that his Norwegian Star tuba boasts intonation that doesn't require pulling while playing, apparently.

[guyvascm]

@kampori I had to quote the post about his posture to some guy on another video it almost made me laugh because the guy told me to go read a book and I've played tuba for 4 years now and am trying to use this posture now for my playing (cause it does help with extra air intake) so thanks for explaining his posture

[Phoxus]

@kampori Alright maybe there is a valid reason for his hands there for tuning, but not for breathing. Talking with Axiom Brass, they say it definitely looks lazy and it's much easier to get a better breath when you're holding a tuba right.

[tubamarc8891]

@kampori That whole stretching the stomach is frankly bs. I understand the tuning though but having your arm draped over the tuba will compress the amount of air you'd be able to intake on your left lung. I'm not trying to take anything away from how well he plays. Still, a fantastic player.

[vowywowy]

@PaybackTyme it is impossible to bash oystien.

[PaybackTyme]

@vowywowy tbh man, i am not bashing, i just want to hear what people think about it as it stood out

[cpadgett1124]

@PaybackTyme he is basically the best tuba player in the world. he can and will do whatever the fuck he wants.

[PaybackTyme]

@cpadgett1124 haha :) who says i want to stop him??

[mayblatr]

@PaybackTyme Also, he's a beast so lets just let him do what he wants

[TubaJDeltona]

@PaybackTyme shut the fuck up, he sounds good bitch

[FloppyBaby]

@PaybackTyme It's ok... no one have ever gotten laid because they play the tuba. Faggot.

[PaybackTyme]

@FloppyBaby What a pointless comment. 

[VengefulSpoon]

EMPTY SEATS?!?!?!?!

Bastards......

[mrtubaguy300]

does anyone know wut brand of tuba that is, it looks like a st. petersburg i mean i know its an EEb tuba. hes a great player dont get me wrong but it sounded like in a couple places a lil bit off. but everyone makes mistakes, hes great but still human i guess

[kampori]

@mrtubaguy300

Øystein is using a Miraphone EEb Starlight tuba. There is a sister model, called the Norwegian Star. Its slightly bigger, lower tones etc.

Fantastic instrument- German company. One of the finest tubas I've had the fortune to play. He designed them himself (Øystein)

[evilryutaropro]

@kampori miraphone is the bomb

[UhopIhop1997]

@mrtubaguy300 hes using a miraphone

[71196jmg]

@mrtubaguy300 he is a miraphone artist, he used to play on the EEb starlight and now on the 180 F

[asianrulez201]

good

[belugafishgod]

Everyone has a bad day once in a while I guess.

[bejerama]

I just watched a video of John Fletcher play this. Quite amazing. Too bad he died so young... Def the best tuba player I've ever heard. and made that last note sound good.

[jamessours1877]

The guy is so technical that musicality seems to to lack. Not impressed with the brand of tuba player that his type promotes. You don't hear a lot of other brass trying to sound like garbage as a "technical" attribute. Why guys like this feel the need to be such d-bags as a way of being unique is beyond me!

[sicus5D]

Wow. Just wow. Im a freshman at sachse highschool now , and before i saw anyof your videos i was horible at tuba and had to stay in my begginers band twice and was last chair symphonic in 8th grade. But after i saw jsut exactly what a tuba could do I started trying and practicing my but off , and now im probably one of the best if not the best player in my section (save the allstater) so from one fellow tubist To another , Thank you.

[tuba1992]

I totally agree with Kapory because when someone plays like that you defetnetly want to hear to ,I mean i might be a sophmore in high school but i heard good and this exeeds and goes beyon the expectations of tuba range and evry note is spoken correctly.

[belugafishgod]

I am sure it was just a fluke. But you have to see it from my perspective. Here is the number one tubist of all time shooting me down without hearing what I got. I was hurt. It was like.....tiger woods reaming a semi pro golfer after only seeing one swing of the club. You see.....I was hurt and I felt that he didn't give me a chance to prove myself. I am glad to hear that he wasn't that way to you.

[belugafishgod]

no doubt he's a great tuba player....but that's all he is. I met him. He gave a master class and critiqued me. He totally used me.....he didn't even allow me to play a full phrase...and he used me to put me down to make him look better. He was a REAL jerk. I don't get it. Usually tubists are humble people, but NOT him. He was a real egotistical jerk and that was a real shame because I like his playing and technical expertise.

[kampori]

Funny... cus he was more than the complete opposite with me, and every single time I've met him. Humble is exactly how he is. Yes he's a bit arrogant, but being that good at something you have the right to be. Look at Usain Bolt.

He's tough when you play with him, but only because he's trying to help & teach. No gain w/o pain. He's a great teacher.

But he's damn funny, clever, a great musician & showman, and a really really nice guy. We took him out for a curry afterwards- I loved him mor then

[Bradleyley1337]

@kampori I think you have the right to be proud of yourself for being that good, but arrogant I think is a bit much. I think being arrogant with the instrument is ok, but just be a normal person off it. But our opinions probably differ. Plus, is it just me, or are his C's consistently sharp? They sound almost a quater tone sharp in places.

[fob199]

@kampori I agree that he is humble! I emailed him some time last year telling him how he'd inspired me to play tuba and he sent me back a very nice email that only inspired me further xD

[bendaern]

@belugafishgod

haha, then i think u have to re-think that whole masterclass session. i have met him several times and he is a very funny guy! and when i played at a masterclass with him, he was very tough on my playing, but he just wants to help you! think u got the wrong idea about this guy!

[taylorfong1]

@belugafishgod I met Oystein at a master class in Sacramento and he was quite possibly the nicest man/musician combination i've met. He not only got more then thought possible accomplished during the master class, but made better soloists of the students he critiqued. Yes he stopped the soloist from moving on, but only to stop and tell them to play it better, and to fix issues. He's an amazing fella, and I feel bad for your experience.

[musicalone2145]

@belugafishgod It's interesting - I've watched a couple of master classes, with Baadsvik and a couple others. People have different teaching styles. One of the musicians I studied with once upon a time could tell what I would do with my instrument from the first note. The true masters are like that, and Baadsvik is no exception, agreed? People get as good as he is by being so driven that they don't see how their drive and passion for music affects others. I'm sure he didn't mean to seem rude. :)

[kprocks1]

@belugafishgod and you also need to think, if he really didnt care about your playing would he have even bother to critique you? Usually the people that are toughest on you are the ones that believe in you.

[Radonkulusness]

dude...THIS SUCKS SOME SERIOUS ASS!!! ok who the hell caresses their tuba like that?! shut up!! god! you are like not even joking this sucks some serious ass! im a tuba player and that made me sick to my stomach like no joke! like now i like wanna find you and slap u silly! oh my god!!! this is just sucking some serious ass

[Pikazap101]

It was ok. He's a good player but he didn't quite play the dynamics in the slower parts to give it feeling.

[kampori]

Yes that's true, but as I said at the beginning, he wasn't meant to- it was just a rehearsal, and not for him but for the pianist. The poor chap only had 24 hours to look through his whole piano part for the whole concert! Just so he could get a feel of the song

[g2k25d94]

@ 1:58 SOMEBODY STRAP THIS MAN DOWN!!! lol. Doesn't matter, his thick tones would shred through the barriers.

[DrSousaphill]

GOD I HATE HIM! (not because I don't like his music... it's just that... I play the tuba... he makes me want to quit)

[MXZEem]

What did he do?

[monkeyvstrex]

@DrSousaphill i play tuba too and he inspires me to push beyond my limits of playing :)

[jewboy11505]

@DrSousaphill if anything, you should aspire to be like him :) that's how i look at it

[riseofatheism]

It seems like Oystein is the one accompanying the pianist. He is being forced to follow the pianist because the pianist is having issues with time and so he just ends up having to follow him. It's a musicians worst nightmare.

[LovinCB23]

that is born and i play the tuba to

[Musicdude2021]

This is the only man in the world that has made a total career on solo tuba performance...He went to LMU TN on his tour in the US...Luckly the director at LMU brought him down to our highschool Union Count High School where he gave a master class to the tuba and baritone students from the surrounding schools and colleges it was a honor

[MrBishop100]

@Musicdude2021 what i wud do to have him come to my school and do that lol

[franktubista]

O melhor tubista de todos tempo Øystein Baadsvik

[jace1896]

omfg how can he memorize that?

[tubaradar]

he is just a genius!!!! that's why he can memorize that. but the C is too high... be careful

[GenesisX001]

He composed it lol, of course he can memorize that!!

[Philbatrom]

he arranged it

Vittorio Monti composed it

[metallica2014]

He didnt compose it.

Just re-arranged it.

[tubamarius]

wtf?

he did not compose czardas

[iamthegaffa]

correct, i believe it was originally written for violin

[monkeyvstrex]

@iamthegaffa you are right

[thesousabone]

It's alot of patterns.

[tubamarius]

true ;)

[TubaguyWithADELA]

the best tuba player in hole world ;D

[johndeereabc]

the first note he plays puts me to shame

[williebeaty]

i usually like contrabass tubas because of their bigger sound, but he makes this Eb sound great!

[CheesePhoneBook]

I saw him in concert. Amaaaaaazing.

My friend whistled at him through the entire auditorium though, and my band teacher was mad. Haha.

But still, this makes me wish I'd picked tuba over flute.

[ZacTheTuba]

man he's giving that tuba heck when playing this.. lol. Must be a practice horn only.

[kampori]

What do you mean?

No, this is his main tuba, which he used for the concert later.

[kampori]

Sorry I accidentally removed instead of replied to your last message!

Was meant to say:

Nah, these rotors can take a lot of beating. Got this tuba myself, they're designed for high usage, 'n all!

[ZacTheTuba]

Ah what kind of horn is it? It looks to be a Eb but I'm not positive. I have a Miraphone 1291 5valve CC tuba, I absolutely LOVE my horn. I want another one but a BBb the exact model I love Miraphones so much. Lol

I'm not a big fan of rotors to tell you the truth. Never have been, Just don't like the sound some produce, now a GOOD rotor yeah I'll play that, But a good 'ole piston that sounds amazing when I play it, is good for me =]

[kampori]

Very nice.

Øystein and I are both using a Miraphone EEb Starlight tuba, 5 valve.

The rotary valves just have such nice spring-back, really useful for soloing.

These tubas make the sound of an angel singing! ;-)

[ZacTheTuba]

I believe all Miraphones do!

[Tubalover95]

amen to that! _D

[monkeyvstrex]

@kampori i gotta tell ya man you really stuck up for oystein i gotta give you props for that :)

[av1valle]

great perfromance...but sounds better when a clarinet choir plays this song

[kasmsa]

Amazing... literally all I can say!

Just.. so astounding!

As I've said a few times, I love seeing this OUT of concert.. in rehearsal times, as it is really cool to see Øystein is a "real" situation, etc.. and describing his tricks :)