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Woodshedding Ives on the borrowed 5/4 Rudi CC:

About time i finally sort out octaves and string bass fingerings for the fast tuba parts of Hammersmith (and also the other pieces in the concert, too)

Oh, played final (dress?) rehearsal tonight before concert, so really i shoulda done this when we first got the music...

I'm as amateur as they come.

ps. I busked a smidge, too, which means the eclectic amalgamation of camp songs, folk songs, excerpts and hymns what have wormed their way into my ear, and i've taken the time to sound out fingerings.

One of the more odd things I've played . . . we did a first read of "Symphony #1 in Memoriam Dresden 1945" last night . . .

Thanks to @MG I've been reunited with the Bobo "Mastering the Tuba" book (autographed copy to boot!) which has some really demanding exercises in it and is sort of a tour-de-force of things on the tuba that I've been neglecting since college. I've been using selected excerpts as a daily routine the past week or so, and I've noticed a definite improvement in my playing. Trying to smooth out the entire range between G below the staff and G above the staff on CC tuba, and the same thing transferred to F tuba (C below the staff to "double C" above the bass clef). Things are speaking easier and it's working to iron out some quirks and bad habits that I've developed.

Well that makes my day. I’ll let Vince know that it’s going to good use. Someday I’ll tell you the story of how we got autograph copies and my Roger Bobo “first sushi” experience. Glad you are enjoying.