There are several suggestions I’d like to (respectfully, I hope) offer to improve the usefulness of this tutorial: show a closer views of your mouth and right hand - new players MUST learn what a good embouchure looks like from the front and the side; acquiring and maintaining good hand position is essential, particularly for faster passages of music; some of the spoken instructions are not very clear - perhaps use some kind of software to point at the note you’re playing; your F is quite badly out of tune, which may be a fault with the instrument, but a new player needs to hear the notes well in tune to be able to internalise the pitch. It’s very commendable to provide a tutorial for such an under-represented instrument (which I myself enjoy playing); please don’t take offence at my suggestions; they’re meant in a spirit of musicianship. Thank you.
I think this is fine for beginning instruction. If you're just starting out on an instrument, you need to learn the basics on how you play the notes before you can develop your ear for what is sharp and flat. Once you develop your ear, you can adjust embouchure and tuning slides to develop your sound.
sousa and concert tuba have the same fingerings (assuming the key from the concert horn is the same as the sousa's key). So if you have a Bb concert horn, your first 5 would go 0 13 12 1 0. With a Bb sousa it's the exact same thing, so it would go like 0 13 12 1 0. Hope this helps!
Ur amazing!! I’m a girl and I’m teaching myself how to play tuba. I go to school at Jacksonville State University amd I’m in the Marching Southerners on the clarinet. I’ve been interested in playing the tuba which is at my school it’s called the 20J. Can you post more videos on the tuba for example buzzing and breathing exercise?
When you go for lower notes make sure you have open jaw and blow fast air and make sure to keep it steady but just try to get down the b flat scale if you don’t know it already
I'm in grade 8 concert band and I play euphonium and my band teacher recently stole a sousaphone from his old school and I am now learning it. I can tell you it is alot lower...
Can we contact Allison today? This seems to be the only one of her vids with comments still enabled. My last chance. Seems to be no other avenues... I need a video on what to do after 'the first five notes' on the trumpet. Allison's vid was the only one I've seen that got me going well on the first five notes. It was the only one that clearly showed she was blowing down across the lower lip. Perhaps that was the big thing. I don't know. But then playing the notes along with her worked well, too. It looks like Allison stopped about 5 years ago. Hopefully this plaintive little message will get out there to someone who knows what's doing and hopefully we can get more help from Allison ?
I'm a bit late, but basically you can't do anything special to do long tones on a Bb without circular breathing . You just have to make your lungs accustomed to breathing into the horn and how much air it takes. Hope this helps.
@@simen9155 Eb? Are you in the UK, Simen? It seems like the Eb is way more common in marching and bands in the UK, whereas here in the States, I never see anyone playing the Eb... it's far more common, at least from my perspective, to see BBb in anything less than Professional levels, and Cb from that point up.
@@Aduysvmncmkouyf Essentially. My BD sucked ass. He would tell me grab tuba I would (and I'm not the biggest person ever so the tuba is about as big as me) Then he would tell me no grab bass, ok, then it's like no grab bari. I have to do it again Tuesday 😵.
You must have a B flat Tuba with the valves on top are you new to the tuba cause I am I’m not new to band I played the Baritone then Euphonium now I’m a Tuba
I can hit these notes but it's a completely different valve combination. I think your tuba goes deeper than mine. I don't have that large tube that doubles up next to the highest large tube as you look at it. but it's a 3 valve and i thought it was a 3/4. Perhaps it's the next higher tuba up in the range.
Who designed that stupid system? C = 0, you just transpose the sheet music in your computer and play standard fingering for ALL horns... So many keys in score for different instruments and NO PROBLEM... And then suddenly you have the same design for every horn, but different fingerings for everyone... What a stupid mess...
I don't understand. You're trying to make a tutorial without a good aperture, and you're out of tune. You can hear the waves and the unsteadiness. Other than that, it's a good video.
its a tuba. its pretty hard to get a consistant note when you have to blow in it with a wider mouthpiece. tubas usually only sound consistant in ensembles. unless you're like an expert or something, its normal for tuba players to wobble the notes a little. plus, beginners shouldn't have to worry about playing a perfect consistant note anyways
There are several suggestions I’d like to (respectfully, I hope) offer to improve the usefulness of this tutorial: show a closer views of your mouth and right hand - new players MUST learn what a good embouchure looks like from the front and the side; acquiring and maintaining good hand position is essential, particularly for faster passages of music; some of the spoken instructions are not very clear - perhaps use some kind of software to point at the note you’re playing; your F is quite badly out of tune, which may be a fault with the instrument, but a new player needs to hear the notes well in tune to be able to internalise the pitch. It’s very commendable to provide a tutorial for such an under-represented instrument (which I myself enjoy playing); please don’t take offence at my suggestions; they’re meant in a spirit of musicianship. Thank you.
The tuba isn't very loud but it is the biggest brass instrument which it is incredible
I think this is fine for beginning instruction. If you're just starting out on an instrument, you need to learn the basics on how you play the notes before you can develop your ear for what is sharp and flat. Once you develop your ear, you can adjust embouchure and tuning slides to develop your sound.
Maravilloso instrumento.
I WAS DOING THIS LAST NIGHT AND ALL OF A SUDDEN MY GRANDPA WOKE UP AND STARTED YELLING:
HELP, HELP THE TITANIC IS SINKING!!!!!
Instructions unclear, I have a trumpet
That’s why
your first 5 notes would be C D E F G (0, 13 12, 1, 0)
@@geuxishere and for trumpet music would be treble clef
Thank you so much. Learned it in under 30 minutes.
The way that those notes look, they look different than when I played the tuba in high school.
Very cool. Can we get multiphonics next?
I really liked the side view trombone lesson do you have more 😁
Maam, can you please make a video of soausaphone and tuba and their fingerings from lowest note to higher ? Thank you ♥️🙏🏼
sousa and concert tuba have the same fingerings (assuming the key from the concert horn is the same as the sousa's key). So if you have a Bb concert horn, your first 5 would go 0 13 12 1 0. With a Bb sousa it's the exact same thing, so it would go like 0 13 12 1 0. Hope this helps!
@@athenalol thats... wrong. There's different types of tubas, sousas, and contra bases. I play on a BBb tuba, which tends to be the standard.
@@realdjwoomyhm yes you're correct. In this case I was referring to only 3-4 valved horns in the same key. But yeah you're right.
@@realdjwoomy ty so much bro!
@@realdjwoomy I play a BBB tuba too in school band
Thanks for this video :)
Ur amazing!! I’m a girl and I’m teaching myself how to play tuba. I go to school at Jacksonville State University amd I’m in the Marching Southerners on the clarinet. I’ve been interested in playing the tuba which is at my school it’s called the 20J. Can you post more videos on the tuba for example buzzing and breathing exercise?
Cordelia Dyer this vid is ... keep it up
When you go for lower notes make sure you have open jaw and blow fast air and make sure to keep it steady but just try to get down the b flat scale if you don’t know it already
Nice Tuba!
Thank you it really helped
*plays triple pedal c* now that’s a high note
Is the tuba and saousaphone have the same fingerings maam ?
They do
Thank you too much @Allison Jensen
My respect ✊
Thank you I’m a new tuba player
Nice vibrato
What vibrato?
This will help a lot 😀😀😁😁
I'm in grade 8 concert band and I play euphonium and my band teacher recently stole a sousaphone from his old school and I am now learning it. I can tell you it is alot lower...
I am blind and I’ve never touched a tuba before, can you tell me exactly how you did what you did?
You’re telling me someone mental enough to not be able to hit a b flat is gonna be smart enough to find your vid
Me first time i played lmao
I legit almost got switched to euph because I was playing "high" it was the f in the staff
@@nahaight1373 Why are you on all the tuba videos?
@@RealTimeFun 👀
@@RealTimeFun 2
Mmmm f sounds like Lighthouse fog horns
Luckily i didn’t get kicked out of euphonium
Can we contact Allison today?
This seems to be the only one of her vids with comments still enabled. My last chance. Seems to be no other avenues...
I need a video on what to do after 'the first five notes' on the trumpet.
Allison's vid was the only one I've seen that got me going well on the first five notes.
It was the only one that clearly showed she was blowing down across the lower lip. Perhaps that was the big thing. I don't know.
But then playing the notes along with her worked well, too.
It looks like Allison stopped about 5 years ago.
Hopefully this plaintive little message will get out there to someone who knows what's doing and hopefully we can get more help from Allison ?
Allison, on the Sousaphone it's the same notes and the same fingering ?
Yes. Assuming you don't have an E flat Sousaphone.
Wow❤❤❤
In the key signature and then the sharp notes like f sharp
Rogelio Garcia 1 and 2 are used ofr F#.
For*
@@vofvadiz - It's 2 and 3.
how do you hit a low b flat on a tuba for four measures b-cuz that is what i have to do ps i am new here
I'm a bit late, but basically you can't do anything special to do long tones on a Bb without circular breathing . You just have to make your lungs accustomed to breathing into the horn and how much air it takes. Hope this helps.
Valves 1n3 for a C, must be a Bb tuba?
Hi, can you send me the ring tones for the song the last of the Mohicans???? Please
Why are most beginning tubists taught on the BBb when it seems like most professionals prefer C tubas?
Bb is more common than c, though Eb is the most common for brassband/marching.
BBb is easier to teach in a band class I wish I learned on a CC horn now that I am in high school I need to start thinking about switching
@@simen9155 Eb? Are you in the UK, Simen? It seems like the Eb is way more common in marching and bands in the UK, whereas here in the States, I never see anyone playing the Eb... it's far more common, at least from my perspective, to see BBb in anything less than Professional levels, and Cb from that point up.
@Aardvark892
I am in Norway. Eb is most used here because it's easy to switch from Euph in treble cleff to Eb.
I have to learn tuba in about 4 hours to play at a pep band game
News flash- I played tuba plus 2 other instruments. Bass clarinet and bari sax
Those 3 instruments get the same part lol
@@Aduysvmncmkouyf Essentially. My BD sucked ass. He would tell me grab tuba I would (and I'm not the biggest person ever so the tuba is about as big as me) Then he would tell me no grab bass, ok, then it's like no grab bari. I have to do it again Tuesday 😵.
@@Person-lx1qu what’s the point, your grabbing the Woodwind and brass counterpart
@@Aduysvmncmkouyf I have no idea. They all basically have the same part for the mostly.
How on earth did you get a dent there?
I can tell by the wall it’s a school tuba and as a middle schooler I can confirm for some reason they don’t give a damn about the instruments
Middle schooler here as well, you don’t wanna know…
3/4 tuba forever
real men play 4/4 size
I am totally blind, I have never really touched a tuba before, so can you try to explain to me how are you changed to those two notes again?
Hi do gooooos
Keep ur air steady
My 3 valve doesn't sount at all like that open valve. :( what tuba do i have?
You must have a B flat Tuba with the valves on top are you new to the tuba cause I am I’m not new to band I played the Baritone then Euphonium now I’m a Tuba
do you happen to know the model?
I can hit these notes but it's a completely different valve combination. I think your tuba goes deeper than mine. I don't have that large tube that doubles up next to the highest large tube as you look at it. but it's a 3 valve and i thought it was a 3/4. Perhaps it's the next higher tuba up in the range.
Your tuba might just be tuned different she has a b flat tuba you might have a c flat tuba
@@aidanlinginfelter6496 you can’t get a c flat tuba, it’s a c tuba
@@alhill7026 shut up you are addicted to ASMR
Go to the low F first and third Fingering
4:43
I have baritone
I played Baritone in 6th grade but I’m a Tuba in 8th grade are you gonna stay the Baritone
My music teachers never looked that good😊
Perv
@@jaycealvarez2116 so calling someone good looking is a perv?
@@jaycealvarez2116 buzzkill
Actually c is 1and 3 or just 4
Who designed that stupid system? C = 0, you just transpose the sheet music in your computer and play standard fingering for ALL horns... So many keys in score for different instruments and NO PROBLEM... And then suddenly you have the same design for every horn, but different fingerings for everyone... What a stupid mess...
U were playing half notes not full but the f u played full
I don't understand. You're trying to make a tutorial without a good aperture, and you're out of tune. You can hear the waves and the unsteadiness. Other than that, it's a good video.
Beginners don’t need to be worried about tuning they need to focus on how to make good sounds and keep a steady airstream
its a tuba. its pretty hard to get a consistant note when you have to blow in it with a wider mouthpiece. tubas usually only sound consistant in ensembles. unless you're like an expert or something, its normal for tuba players to wobble the notes a little. plus, beginners shouldn't have to worry about playing a perfect consistant note anyways
Well at least teach the rest and use bead it’s all the flats
Stop ur speach. And read ur music
Stop ur speach. And read ur music. Net waist
She is good