Anime orchestra concerts are similar. I recently played on a concert with the music of One Piece, with the show playing behind us as we played the tracks. The concert was in a massive theater as part of the annual anime convention here. It was packed, and there was indeed rock concert-level roaring ...

Here is one: don’t ask for a recording of ME playing it. You won’t get the same sound or results. If you are scared of leaks, you can come and play it. Me playing it in or out of tune won’t help you tune it any better. Here is another: including a mouthpiece with a horn does not add value unless it’s ...

I use both my CC and my F on solos and try to program solos on both. I also make students that have both a bass and contrabass tuba solo on the contrabass tuba as a recital requirement. I use horns for color and timbre. The only time horn key matters is on theme and variation pieces when you learned ...

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Ahhh, a Bloke-kind-of joke. I did find the call on expertise rather disturbing, makes me thinking of all the stories I've read about dictatorial conductors. Don't see the overanalysis, we are only discussing the elementary workings of brass instruments presented by the little latest research. And ...

Since most of us are doing this for a hobby, they don't have that much time to spend. You don't get an engineering degree without spending ample time studying. In fact, are line of work changes so rapidly we still need to spend a bunch of hours just to keep up. We can't use equipment that is a ...

I don’t think about my lips when I play or think about embouchure nor do I teach it. Then again, I’m rooted in Jacobs/Rocco pedagogy. If everyone participating in this thread put the same amount of time spent in they spent on this thread into developing their sound, a few more people than the “Tuba ...

I don’t think about my lips when I play or think about embouchure nor do I teach it. Then again, I’m rooted in Jacobs/Rocco pedagogy. If everyone participating in this thread put the same amount of time spent in they spent on this thread into developing their sound, a few more people than the “Tuba G ...

Were they to hear something that doesn't conform, the resonance qualities could distract them so much that they may not notice the fact that an operator is head and shoulders above all the other applicants in their ability to make music... and bass tubas that don't sound like contrabass tubas could ...

My first F tuba was a Miraphone 180, my second a very old YFB 621 which I sold to Sam Pilafian. My third one was a mid 1980's B&S F. By this time, I had my sound concept locked in before going to a Gronitz PF 125. I have a student with a very old Miraphone 181 that I like quite a bit and also very ...

I have written pieces back in my avant garde tuba ensemble days which call for the player to flick the bell rim with their fingernail instead. I can take a video of what this would sound like. I don't think it would have the effect you have in mind. Hang tight. This effect is used in Priscilla ...

Two groups I have done a lot of playing with as of late as a substitute 1. Lima Symphony Orchestra. Filled in last season as a sabbatical replacement and covered a concert this past weekend. Great gentlemen and musicians to continue to learn how to do orchestral playing. https://i.ibb.co/TPjHzgQ/IMG ...

Why not just have a midi synthesizer/computer read all the music and play it over some really good speakers? Why do you think I do so much tuba and recording repertoire? True story from a couple years ago—we were doing a brass day at one of my schools, and we were going to play something from the O ...

Colby Fahrenbacher how do you feel going digital would change orchestral set up? Would the inner string parts operate the page turns? Watching this right now with paper music As I am sitting tacet in Prokofiev, the larger size of the music seems to make it easier to see. I am not sure adding more ...

So I wanted you to elaborate because "forcing" each of these scenarios on musicians means very different things. An orchestra requiring musicians to purchase a tablet in order to accept a gig is not the same as an orchestra providing those tablets themselves. My impression is that you think number 2 ...

Colby Fahrenbacher Before I respond, I want to let you know circa 2014 I had mentioned to my wife how cool it would be to get an iPad for all my music to play off of. I have a bit of music digitized for teaching so I could distribute to students after teaching when I had an idea for them to work on ...

Colby Fahrenbacher I am very familiar with music library work. An orchestra I sub with hired a new one, and during that phase, the personnel manager did a fantastic job covering the role. Digital may make it easier, but can also eventually put out of work. A saying I heard this week in corporate ...

Colby, The transfer of physical notation from one set to another will be lost. I thought you were a music librarian. Most of the ones I’ve worked with now send the files, musicians can print or go digital for practices and originals are provided at the performances. If orchestras went just digital, ...

Which goes back to my earlier point: we are so used to the downsides of paper music, we simply ignore that they exists and can’t imagine how digital music can address those issues. Here are some simple problems with print music: - paper degrades over time, deteriorates through physical contact, ...

I did one of these (Harry Potter 1st movie) with a top notch regional orchestra (the majority of the brass and winds are faculty at Cincinnati Conservatory). The conductor, who I thought was quite good, did not use a click track and none were provided to the members. Every single tempo change the ...