John Williams Tuba Concerto part 1

USC student David plays John Williams Tuba Concerto.

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Music

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• tuba
• usc
• david
• brass
• roger
• pokorny
• 튜바
• john
• williams

[hitemp]

im playin that this year and im a soph in high school

[kwonotae]

I really wanna hear ur perfomance.

put it on ~

[bernid00]

First I would like to say some really fine playing going on. You have a great sound and they only thing I would say is be careful to not crush some of the rhythms on the 16th note runs. Keep up the great work you are wonderful to hear

[Jimmytuba08]

@rubix12321 Hope that helps! :-)

[Jimmytuba08]

@rubix12321 Then, get a professor or a trusted friend/teacher to listen to an A B C D mouthpiece test. say you have the mouthpiece you're already using (that's A), a PT-88 (that's B), a PT-88+ (That's C), and some other mouthpiece you want to try (that's D). Call out what mouthpiece you're using by the letter assigned to it, and play something on it, something even as simple as a scale will work, but you want to get a feel for how it works in all registers, dynamics, what have you.

[Jimmytuba08]

@rubix12321 It is generally up to the performer about how it sounds, but the extra mass on the 88+ (what I play on) generally gives it more oomph...more core, so to speak. It depends on the kind of sound you produce on the tuba you're currently playing on whether the 88+ or straight up 88 will work or not. Just see if you can rent, get a trial run, or borrow a few mouthpieces from a friend then get in the place you perform most if at all possible.

[contrabassbob]

Those are such great little horns, if only I could hold one comfortably I would have one!

Fantastic sound!

[Xemk2143]

How did 3 people not like this?

[rubix12321]

I was thinking of getting a PT88, do you know anything about the difference in sound production between PT88 and PT88+?

[Tubanapoleon]

Well, to be honest this was more of a practice tempo than performance tempo. The idea was to master the notes and intervals above tempo, so that in performance at a slower tempo the figures would come off sounding easy. I played the piece with an orchestra about 2 weeks after this recording, and we played the first movement a few metronome clicks slower (I posted the recording if you want to listen)

By the way, if you think this is fast, check out the 3rd movement, now THAT I played fast

[cschapker1981]

Nice playing! I do have one question. Why did you take the tempo so fast? It just seemed like the runs were getting rushed slightly and the "new" tempo afterwards was being used and began to snowball just a bit. You play so well and have a great sound. Slow it down just a tad and it will be glorious. Sehr Gut!

[Tubanapoleon]

Bt the way, I posted the recording of me playing this concerto with orchestra (about 2 weeks after this video was recorded) Search for "john williams concerto for tuba and orchestra" and you will see the videos I posted (user name tubanapoleon). I separated the recording by movement, so there will be three videos.

[Tubanapoleon]

It's a Yamaha F tuba (YFB-621), with a PT-88 mouthpiece