#1964273 - 06/29/08 08:54 PM
A different kind of bassline.
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Someone mentioned tuba parts for marching bands in another thread. It reminded me of the tuba parts in several songs by the Dirty Dozen Brass Band.
Before anyone things tuba in a marching band has to be deadly dull, I recommend you listen to the Dirty Dozen Brass Band. A solid but greasy line in "The Monkey" is only the begining, I can't imagine how a guy plays a song like "Feats Can't Fail Me Now" or "Do it Fluid" without passing out. Trying to take those tuba bass lines and get the fluid and subtle feel on bass is a challenge that I have not yet met. I wanted to post a few Youtube links, ut none of the video had the right sound quality. The three tunes I mentioned are on iTunes, you can check them out if you are interested. I just wish their first album was there.
Enjoy!
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#1964277 - 06/29/08 09:03 PM
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Good thread. I started out on French horn, so I can appreciate what a tuba player probably has to go through just to play a decent bassline. Their reward? They're probably better kissers for the effort...
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#1964290 - 06/29/08 10:31 PM
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+1. Dirty Dozen Brass Band RAWKS!!!!
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#1964297 - 06/30/08 12:41 AM
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Check out Bob "Lips of Steel" Stewart playing with Lester Bowie's Brass Fantasy.
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#1964323 - 06/30/08 04:00 AM
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Yep. I love me some tuba bass - I've been listening to DDBB for 20 years or more.
Actually, there are a lot of marching bands with pretty funky tuba/euphonium players nowadays.
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#1964388 - 06/30/08 06:40 AM
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I seem to remember UMass or another school's marching band doing a great "Paranoid Android" cover...
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#1964397 - 06/30/08 06:54 AM
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Tuba players blow deeper!!!!!
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#1964442 - 06/30/08 07:55 AM
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Watch the Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans and you'll see and hear some great great tuba playing. And this from high schoolers!
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#1964451 - 06/30/08 08:04 AM
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Yes, I've seen some great High School Marching bands over the years.
Anyone seen the movie Drumline?
It's kind of a routine predictable teen movie but the marching band elements are a lot of fun.
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#1964572 - 06/30/08 01:24 PM
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Watch the Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans and you'll see and hear some great great tuba playing. And this from high schoolers!
I wouldn't mind being a sousaphone player in such a setting.
I did march tuba/sousaphone (and trombone for one year) in high school. We played at the New Orleans World's Fair in the '80s. It was a blast!
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#1964573 - 06/30/08 01:25 PM
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It's kind of a routine predictable teen movie but the marching band elements are a lot of fun.
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#1964690 - 06/30/08 05:37 PM
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A friend of mine had a tuba player do the bass parts on a couple of tunes on his record. It actually worked quite well, and now I'm working on converting one of those parts over to the bass.
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#1964692 - 06/30/08 05:41 PM
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Yep. I love me some tuba bass - I've been listening to DDBB for 20 years or more.
Actually, there are a lot of marching bands with pretty funky tuba/euphonium players nowadays.
I first heard DDBB around that time as well, and it blew my skull wide open. Not what I exepcted from tuba at all.
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#1964750 - 06/30/08 10:46 PM
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Good thread. I started out on French horn, so I can appreciate what a tuba player probably has to go through just to play a decent bassline. Their reward? They're probably better kissers for the effort... No fair! I bet you can play all of John Entwistle's French horn parts! 
I wasn't aware he had any. (I am a heretic, I know very little of the Who's catalogue.) But I'm sure they'd be fun to learn... what album(s)?
French horn seriously is a fun instrument, especially on dark-sounding classical pieces. I think there's one on Fish Out of Water that appears on "Silently Falling" or "Safe (Canon Song)", if I am hearing it right, and it exemplifies what I like about the instrument.
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#1964932 - 07/01/08 09:04 AM
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Tuba players blow deeper!!!!!
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+1. Dirty Dozen Brass Band RAWKS!!!!
"Tuba players do it with their lips".
I always thought tuba players carry a bigger instrument...
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#1964944 - 07/01/08 09:30 AM
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Good thread. I started out on French horn, so I can appreciate what a tuba player probably has to go through just to play a decent bassline. Their reward? They're probably better kissers for the effort...
I mess around with a tuba player named Fred on occasion. I don't get the feeling he is the best kisser around. He swings his a$$ off though. He and I get together and run tunes trading choruses. He has and interesting way of comping changes. Its a lot of fun. Plus he has a great approach for soloing that has inspired more than one thought over the years.
He also does a trio gig with a great jazz pianist. That gives him a little more room to stretch out. He's funky.
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