Tuba

This is kinda a dumb question...

1st You need a Tuba/Sousaphone fanfare that you and your group like

2nd Practice it until its memorized.

3rd. Go up to a band that you think you can "Call Out" meaning "Battle"

4th Play your fanfare(s) to see there reaction...

5th you find out on your own...

with there butts

When playing an instrument, it is vital to have sheet music to learn how to play different songs. Sheet music for the Alto Sax for the song Crazy Train, can be bought at any local music or instrument stores.

The shape of the tuba has been changed through out the ages. The original shape of the tuba came from an instrument called a ophicleide. It was a form of the tuba except it had no valves. Later on Johann Gottfried Moritz and Wilheim Wieprecht invented a keyed ophicleide. The shape of the tuba was always changing through out the years. Well in 1845 a man by the name of Adolfe Sax had created a family of saxophone horns. He had these ranging from the soprano and the contrabass. The contrabass resembled a lot of what the modern tuba resembles now and that's where the modern shape of the tuba came from.

Later on though a band leader by the name of John Philip Sousa got in contact with C. G. Conn and they created a more "audience-friendly" version of the tuba which is now known as the sousaphone.

Prussian Patent No. 19 was granted to Wilhelm Friedrich Wieprecht and Carl Moritz on September 12, 1835 for a "basstuba" in F1. The original Wieprecht and Moritz instrument used five valves of the Berlinerpumpen type that were the forerunners of the modern rotary valve.

The addition of valves made it possible to play low in the harmonic series of the instrument and still have a complete selection of notes. Prior to the invention of valves, brass instruments were limited to notes in the harmonic series, and were thus generally played very high with respect to their fundamental pitch. Harmonics starting three octaves above the fundamental pitch are about a whole step apart, making a useful variety of notes possible.

The ophicleide used a cup-shaped brass instrument mouthpiece but employed keys and tone holes similar to those of a modern saxophone. Another forerunner to the tuba was the serpent, a bass brass instrument that was shaped in a wavy form to make the tone holes accessible to the player. Tone holes changed the pitch by providing an intentional leak in the bugle of the instrument. While this changed the pitch, it also had a pronounced effect on the timbre. By using valves to adjust the length of the bugle the tuba produced a smoother tone that eventually led to its popularity.

Adolphe Sax, like Wieprecht, was interested in marketing systems of instruments from soprano to bass, and developed a series of brass instruments known as saxhorns. The instruments developed by Sax were generally pitched in E-flat and B-flat, while the Wieprecht "basstuba" and the subsequent Cerveny contrabass tuba were pitched in F and C (see below on pitch systems). Sax's instruments gained dominance in France, and later in Britain and America, as a result of the popularity and movements of instrument makers such as Gustave Auguste Besson (who moved from France to Britain) and Henry Distin (who found his way eventually to America).

The actual instrument itself is what vibrates.

For example when you hit a cymbal, you can sometimes see the brass vibrating, and also if you touch the cymbal while it is making a sound you can feel the vibrations on your hand.

There are many instruments that look the same as a tuba, but are a different size so produce notes at a different pitch. These include euphonium, baritone and tenor horn. Trumpets and cornets are like a very small tuba turned on its side.

Harry Smith (born August 21,1951) - TV and radio personality. Anchor of CBS' The Early Show, was also a contributor for CBS Evening News, sometimes anchors and is a correspondent for CBS News Sunday Morning. He plays the tuba.

An English horn is a woodwind instrument, a member of the oboe family, about one third longer than an oboe and souding a perfect fifth lower. It makes its sound by the vibration of a double reed, again much like an oboe.

A tuba is a low brass instrument, also pitched in the key of F. It makes sound by the buzzing of the lips into a mouthpiece, much like a trumpet.

The two are quite dissimilar instruments.

You can use a tuner and tune each slide or by just listening around the ensemble to tune each note. The main thing is to make sure you are in tune with others. See the attached links for more information on how to tune a tuba.

No CNET in Bb Tuba is in BBb or also known as C

1. that is a stupid question because there are no "highest notes". Even pianos can be made with more keys.

2. A tuba player and other brass player have no specific range. With expirience comes higher and lower range through daily exersices like range builders. As a senior in high school I have a range of the lowest Bb on an normal piano and up to the F above middle C. So a professional should be able to hit your "highest notes"

One ancestor is an instrument called the serpent.

Well that all depends on what horn you're playing, what tone you're trying to achieve, how often you play, and a number of other factors as well. You could try talking to a music educator, or going to http://www.wwbw.com and emailing the customer service. They may have some useful tips.

I personally play the Perantucci PT-48 for solo work, and a Conn-Helleberg 120 Standard Model for band work. I'm also in the process of researching Neil Sanders mouthpieces for sousaphone work.

So, a good general playing mouthpiece would probably be a Conn-Helleberg 120 Standard (120S), or a generic 25B. For solo work, I'd have to recommend a Roger Bobo Solo model.

I hope that my answer was useful.

Trumpet players and Saxophone players will have different answers for you :P

It's easier to say who were amazing players on those instruments in jazz.

Trumpet - Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis, Clifford Brown, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Wynton Marsalis

Saxophone - Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Sonny Rollins

Brass. If you want to be exact, low brass.

Baritone horn, Sousaphone, Euphonium, Contrabass bugle, and Alto Horn

Yes, the euphonium, baritone and tenor horns are all smaller (and higher pitched) versions of the tuba. Also, trumpets (and cornets and flugel horns) are small tubas turned on their sides.

Ab (1)- Bb (open-0)- C (4)( or 1 and 3)- Db (2 and 3)- Eb (1)- F (0)- G (1 and 2)- Ab (1)

then go back wards back down

Arpeggio- Ab(1) C(4 or 1 and 3) Eb(1) Ab(1) Eb(1) C(4) Ab(1)

A trombone uses a slide. A trumpet uses valves. Also, the trombone is pitched lower than the trumpet, and has a different tone quality. If you think of brass instruments as voices, the trumpet is the soprano, and the trombone is the tenor.

1. Start on any note on the piano. This note is what will serve as the 'tonic' or the 'starting note'.

2. At this point, the minor scale can be defined on where you place whole steps and half steps. w=whole h=half

Now starting with the 'tonic' go up in this way: up a whole, up a whole, up a half, up a whole, up a whole, up a half, up a whole, up a whole. so the formula for any minor scale is...

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You can start on any note you'd like. To perform the minor scale, just follow the formula above!

Happy Birthday notes for Bb Trumpet - 3/4 time

All the C's are Low C's except for the one C indicated High C

C - C - D - C - F - E / C - C - D - C - G - F / C - C - High C - A - F - F - E - D / Bb - Bb - A - F - G - F

Tuba was used a lot for playing bass in early jazz.

Well the tuba ranges from about 2000 dollars up into 15000 dollars

If your a beginner tubist then i suggest a 2 to 3 thousand dollar tuba probably a bb flat one

my personal tuba is a 15000 dollar hand made Bach tuba.

beginner tubas are quite nice if you take care of them and your good with your omnicher.

Do not though purchase one online

You can get them for a few hundred in pawn shops.

That depends on what's broken. If it's really broken, and you have no idea how to fix it, I'd STRONGLY recommend taking it to a reputable instrument repair shop. They have the tools and expertise to fix it. Anything you try to do to fix it might just make it worse.