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Same, sometimes when we play certain songs, I hear myself getting to that volume/sound I want to be at. I especially need to have a bigger sound because our mvp tuba is now drum major and the only other tuba started this year

Grow up New York Dog Douche..... Sounds corny when someone else says something dumb, right?!?!?

In this video I am using a Marcinkiewicz ProLine Concert Hall H2, but I currently use the new Laskey 30H. Thanks for asking!

A great place to start if you ask me is just a standard Helleberg mouthpiece. It won't cost you a fortune, but it's also a good jump into the world of premium mouthpieces that are superior to the mouthpieces that generally come with the instrument. Mouthpieces are all about feel and personal preference, but a Helleberg is a great starting point. Thanks for asking!

And ogres are like onions!

Are you double or single buzzing because my old band director who teached for ~15 years said I was the best middle school tubist he had seen and I double buzz and I’m the only tubist I know that double buzz’s and not single

@@CampbellJTuba why would you double buzz if you arent trying to perform multiphonics?

@@aidanpark7705 I might be thinking of something different, Instead of using just my top lip to buzz I use both which might just be tuba. I should know this tho and idk why I don’t, I’m legit about to audition for Allstate

@@youtuba2513 what?😂

The flugelhorn is actually a member of the tuba family!

The flugelhorn is a valved bugle, developed by Uhlmann in 1830. The modern instrument we CALL a flugelhorn is actually an Infantry Saxhorn, developed by Adolphe Sax in 1844. The tuba, developed by Cerveny in ca 1853, was derived from the bass keyed bugle (ophicleide). Unlike regular valved bugles the tuba family have conical lead-pipes.

Thank you!

Me too 🥳

No? I'm not even sure what that is.

What really helped me discover low range is to think about the pressure that I'm applying onto the mouthpiece. If you are playing a really low note that requires very low air pressure, it also requires very little mouthpiece pressure so that your lips have room to vibrate. It's a much easier thing to demonstrate than it is to type, so I hope this made sense! Thanks for your question!

SAME

I’m currently switching from playing a trombone, for five years, to a tuba

@@passingthetime_ SAME

In a few months I will be buying myself a tuba then swapping to tuba from trombone, a friend of mine is a tuba player and he let's me play his tuba quite often and he's shown me a few things such as the full sound, I sound really good according to him, I just don't have my own tuba

Tromboner

How bad is the switch?

Look up Howard Johnson!

This is 9 months later😂but I’ve played tuba for years and now I’m playing French horn. As long as you are ready to learn a new clef I would recommend

Olivia your not helping

@@gamerbeastboy1842 neither are you

I know it’s like a year later but try to act like you have an egg in your mouth the whole time even on high notes

Once you do it for a while you figure out how much air and how open to make each note

Thanks for the question! My recommendation for a simple low register exercise: Play long tones, descending by a half step in the middle of each long tone. Start somewhere very comfortable, like a Bb or C below the staff. When you start getting into the register where you’re not as comfortable, keep an eye out for things like excess air speed, excess tension in lips, and forcing a buzz to happen. Just focus on supplying very slow air, and let the buzz naturally occur. Also: as you decrease air pressure supplied into the instrument, you need to decrease the amount of pressure provided from the mouthpiece pressing on your face/embouchure. These two pressures need to match in order to achieve maximum efficiency. If you want to read into this further, I suggest reading a book called “Encyclopedia of the Pivot System” by Donald S. Reinhardt. Perhaps I will do a video on the low register soon. :)

YouTuba thank you so much!!😁😁

Mark McDonald thank you 😊

Iain Girten embouchure

@@maxd6669 Tuba basically has wider lips, but the embouchure doesn't change because it's the same pitch instrument the only difference is the mouthpiece size.

Thanks for the question! The foundations between the two embouchures and how sound is created are exactly the same. The biggest difference is the amount of embouchure used in sound creation, which is a direct result of mouthpiece size.

I see “forced buzzing” most commonly in students that switch from trumpet. They try to use the same amount of embouchure to create sound in a tuba mouthpiece as they would in a trumpet mouthpiece. So they’ll provide structure by creating excess tension in the embouchure and only allow a very small portion of their embouchure to vibrate. The mouthpiece rim will provide structure, and the entire embouchure in the mouthpiece should vibrate.

Same

Yo me too bro

I switched from Barrie Sax to Tuba 😳

Im watching this the day I switched, I hear those words and I was just shocked

See my reply to Nigel Thornberry’s comment.

I did that same order of changing too

I love my mouthpiece! You can have one too! It’s a Marcinkiewicz Concert Hall Pro Line H2, and you can find it at Mouthpiece Express.

Imagine using the same technique that you do when you would fog up a window or mirror and apply it to the mouthpiece and the instrument

@@chxser6 whenever i try to open my throat it feels like im choking or it fells weird in the back of my throat,and when a try the same fogging up window tecnique, i cant apply it to tuba

Thanks for the question! “Warm air” is a property of slow air, whereas “cold air” is a property of fast air. So I’m going to assume the question is “How do I use better SLOW air.” Well, slow air is only useful for low register, so you don’t want slow air all the time. With all that in mind, a simple “slow air” exercise would be to say the letter “O,” and hold that shape. Then blow slow air through that shape. Then pick up your tuba and try to play slow air low register notes while re-creating the feeling of blowing slow air through the “O” shape you just created. It’s important to exaggerate the feeling of the shape you create before you pick up the tuba and try to re-create it. Feeling is always more exaggerated than reality. If you’ve ever tried to change your golf swing, you’ll know this. :P