Vorspiel Zur Oper Die Meistersinger Von Nurnberg - Wagner

[ppppppppppp12233]

What kind of tuba is that???

[Jiffy13]

@ppppppppppp12233

This is a VMI 6/4 Neptune C tuba

[fleetingdays]

Love it..!!

[2big4urbridges]

good job overall! 

[MultiChaoten]

Arbeite an deinem ansatz und vorallem musst du auf deine luftführung achten ...

kleiner Tip ...:P

[Jiffy13]

@MultiChaoten Danke, war dieses Video über zweieinhalb Jahren gemacht. Ich sollte wahrscheinlich eine weitere aktuelle Video ... danke für den Tipp!

[TheRHStuba]

needs more ping to the notes

[volcomdat]

where do you find this music?

[KauaiBallerof2012]

such a good horn and such a crappy musician

[KauaiBallerof2012]

@MatthewRabbit99 actually I can play it.. Thank you very much!

[KauaiBallerof2012]

@MatthewRabbit99 thats what i thought

[SammeLagom]

Gutes Video!

[Yoyocita2]

i like how this dude acts all bad ass lol.. especially when he holds up the music in front of the camera.

[Jiffy13]

That wasn't me being bad-ass, that was me not knowing how to show what I was playing without talking, because talking would have disqualified me from the competition, I got disqualified anyway, but, oh well.

[Glarfugus]

@Jiffy13 How would talking have disqualified you? The winner talked in his videos...

[Jiffy13]

@Glarfugus At the time, I had come to the understanding that there was to be no talking.

[AvalancheDan186]

Booo! Using the 12-3 combination for the trill is cheating and wrong =( I have to go cry now...

[Jiffy13]

You are a jerk dan... Dont give away my secret!

[WAKeele]

@AvalancheDan186

Cheating aye. I've heard Gene Pokorny tell a room of music majors in Chicago that you can try noodling on all the valves and get a similar result.

It's all about the final product...

[F3arOfBandit]

Nice sound. I'm buying a B&S Neptune too in this tuesday. :D

[Jiffy13]

Cool, this is the VMI Neptune, I wonder if they are the same horn?

[F3arOfBandit]

Yeah. B&S = VMI. I got it 2 days ago, lovin it!

[Jiffy13]

It's a great horn

[Jiffy13]

Considering this was two months ago, I should probably upload more videos of my orchestral excerpts, or more some solo stuff.

[tubasteve123]

record from farther away helps alot keep whatever picks up sound 20 to preferably 50 feet away if possible it will help so you can here the fullsound of your horn

[Jiffy13]

I'll try that next time.

[Tubaweltmeister]

I need to follow up after sounding so negative. There a lot of good things about your playing. Try to work a lot of your practice with a metronome. It will keep you from cheating note lengths, and if you use it enough, you'll still be able to "hear" it when you turn it off. The importance of pitch and tuning is one of the skills one needs to bring to the orchestra, particularly on the tuba. Keep plugging. If you love to practice, you've got a shot at it.

[Tubaweltmeister]

Jiffy!, Meistersinger was WRITTEN for F tuba! It's a travesty to plow through the orchestra sounding like the Queen Mary coming into port. 6/4 horns have a VERY limited scope of use in all but he biggest of orchestras; and even then, should just be used for Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Wagner's "Ring", and the like. ALL of Wagner's music was written for Basstuba (F tuba) with the exception of the Ring operas, Tuba doesn't provide THE bass for the orchestra, the Contrabasses (String basses) do.

[Jiffy13]

Hmm, I was always told that this was meant for C- tuba, even Gene Pokorny, the Principal tubist in the Chicago symphony had said that playing on anything other than C or Bb would be a travesty. Although I do see your point, in that The Contrabasses provide the bass for the orchestra, I belive that the contrabass tuba has a larger role in orchestra, especially in wagner's explosive music, where even in the brass you need some weight and mmph to go with the rest of the wind section.

[mashgreene]

wouldnt use such a big horn for meistersingers, why make it harder than it has to be. also make sure you are note lengths, sound, and style stay consistent. not bad for a 6/4 horn though

[Jiffy13]

Even though you do see other horns in the room I'm in, I only own this 6/4, and borrowing an old-ish B&S F tuba, and it would be a travesty to play meistersinger on F.

[Jiffy13]

Tuning slide lever, for the second valve slide.

Yeah, I do an embouchure shift right around the Eb in the middle of the staff, nice ear there. Alot of my daily practice involves trying to make that gap less noticeable. It's the 6/4 neptune, pretty reliable horn, hard to get center though. What'cha think of my meistersinger? I'm still trying to get it just right.

[GunzTheDuel]

looking at the bore of the bell, thats a big tuba, r you pressing another valve with your left hand or is it a tuning slide lever?

Im not exactly sure but it sounds like theres a gap between your normal and high embouchure. the sound completly changes when u make that switch.

[Jiffy13]

It's not a definite yes yet. But my friend who plays accordion in this one band told me that their tuba player is lookin to go away, and may teach me how to play in the style before he goes.

[Yelnatsinthepit]

oi, where's the mariachi music, eh?