In case people dont realise, tubas sound a lot clearer when you hear them in person, recordings generally dont pick up the low bassy sound of the tuba or sousaphone very well, and the reason they sound so gritty and kind of "kazoo"ey is because of that, that's not to take away though that sousaphones generally sound worse than concert tubas
sousaphones are also generally designed to be louder and give a powerful brassy feel whereas concert tubas give the low bassy mellow sound, they dont necessarily sound worse, just different from concert tubas.
Sousaphones sound more piercing because the bell of the instrument faces forward, unlike the tuba and other members of the tuba family such as the euphonium, which the bell faces upward. With the sousaphone, the sound is going in a different direction than that of the tuba.
you really need good speakers or headphones to capture the awesomeness of the tuba. I just got a new pair of headphones today and it makes this song rock!! Not like doesn't already!
gumball nightmare well right now we are doing valiance, rockin rondeu and my favorite cocles and mussels because it a tuba,bassoon,bari sax and bass clarinet
Haha sike, try 6-12 hours a day for 60-80 days with half that section size and sound worlds better. The sousa section couldnt even get in time with each other.
Well basic counting says that there are only nineteen tubas. So that's a damn sexy $143,000 but there is tax. Which in Auburn in 9% So that's a damn sexy, $155,780!
There was me and 2 guys in my band that played sousaphone and I miss it so much I’m about to graduate and I don’t know what I’m going to do without marching and playing sousaphone
The low brass at my school would play this all of the time during the assemblies and halftime shows. And man that was fun. We took a trip to New Orleans this year and we played it there too.The crowd was getting really into it and danced along with us.
I marched in the Auburn Band 1978-83 and the drum line(US) and the tuba section always had a rivalry going into the stadium. We stood down on the sidelines and played as the band marched into the stands. Well, the tuba section also stood on the sideline and made up dance moves (if you want to call them that) to our music. The crowd loved the drum line and tolerated the tuba section. Ha! Anyway, War Eagle guys.Glad to see the tradition continue. Hopefully the 2013 season will be a good one!
I've only played sousaphone once, and that was for a marching festival in 7th grade, with that many tubas, it would've been really cool to see this in person because sousaphones are loud by themselves.
Possibly, as I don't personally own a tuba. However, Tubas that nice are most definitely not cheap. I was simply alluding to the fact that 18 top-of-the-line, well-maintained tubas would cost quite a sum of money. Also, the fact that 18 top-of-the-line, well-maintained tubas gathered in one place is most certainly an impressive sight.
I'm a trumpetist (universal overlord), math is beneath me. $150,000 is nothing to me! But in that damn sexy of a form, it is a formidable force in the universe!
Actual there are several different types of tuba. Sousaphones are the ones blowing their brains out above. "Contras" (contrabass Tuba) is the marching sholder tuba that Can be a conveted to a Concert tuba. a marching tuba is most commonly assosiated with a Bell frount Concert horn Used befor Sousaphones and Contras were Created. Basicly there are alot of tubas used for many Different reasons, Such as the Lusophone.
Nicoboi2 Dark Astro I come from from a HS band that plays this song along with a DL cadence and we just found out about that La calavera a few months ago and it’s crazy lol
@@hokagecutt72 you also gotta think, this was posted in 2008. Sound quality of video cameras/phones back then were pretty garbage. Plus, tubas don't sound fantastic on recordings even now. So it might've sounded fantastic in person
Depends also if the play different notes ,then you can get summation and differenceiationon . say 2 horns play an open fifth ( relates like 2 to 3) then one can hear beat frequencies like nr 5 and the fundamental nr 1. Lets say in notes they are playing C and G,one will hear also(weaker) the E above and the Fundamental C. Its a reason why all the instruments should be in tune. Its very noticable with flutes.
My band does also (im one) and we play sonic boom and we are gonna play this one. It is totally possible to play these songs in a small band with some loud Sousas
Yeah that's a good sized band. You guys should do some sousa songs. They are super fun and you could even get the music for the whole band if you wanted
lol sadly our band director refuses to do pep band in class. He spends class time on Marching band until the season ends and then we play concert music to practice for concert festival.
Oh my band has two different classes, one for advanced players and the other for less advanced players. I'm in the advanced class and we work on solely concert music now while the other class works on marching
@TrueTrombone352 Actually, yes. The Baritone has a bell that points outward, has valves on the front, facing outward like the bell, and usually has three valves. The Euphonium, however, has a bell that is simular to a tuba's, pointing straight up, like a raincatcher, as well as it usually has four or five valves. The Euphonium is almost literally a small tuba.
@TeamSolidStarCraft There is a marching baritone as well. Drum Corps used both. A marching baritone is smaller than the marching euphonium. But typically in high schools they are using euphonium.
KAME HAMEHA I agree with that guy, contras/marching tubas sound a lot better and can get a clearer tone than a sousa if you haven't heard any DCI corps use them, you're missing out
Owen Shapley But still, its not that bad. Its probably only the quality of the video. I heard my high school's marching band play sousaphones, and they had a really good tone quality. Brass instruments usually sound a little weird in videos, unless u use pro equipments.
@DarkVengeance0938 No, actually, a contra-bass bugle, commonly known as just a Contra, is the marching tuba, sousaphones are a variant of the Helicon invented in the 1920's by John Phillip Sousa.
@TeamSolidStarCraft I started out on trombone, along with three of my buddies, one of my buddies and I moved to different low brass instruments, I went to Euph. and my buddy went to tuba, he loves it to this day
@trumpeteronthefoof A mellophone is nothing like a horn. A mello has less than half the tubing, different bore, less conical, piston valves, different mouthpiece, etc. In playing the two, the differences are apparent, but it's a necessary evil to fill the alto brass voice.
@kingjokerful No it's not. It's a sousaphone. I've played sousaphone, tuba, convertible concert tuba for field, and a G contrabass bugle (along with other brass and even woodwinds). The differences are subtle, but differences just the same.
if the sound of 1 tuba is 100% then 2 Tubas are together 110% ,3 Tubas are 111% . To amass instruments doesn't produce loudness but shimmering golden sound, which you could hear in long notes.
Seems like a cursory Google is showing me that a good sousaphone would be not much more than $8k, so 18 of them is about $144k, so no where close to one-million dollars, but certainly a beautiful sight.
I wish my Tuba section was have as big because with only 2 tubas in the band that made us look smaller than what we realy here, but we held it down though
When my high school's lucky enough to have a tuba player in marching band, we use contras. We have three that can be converted to concert tubas. my band has averaged about 45 people (including Color guard) for the last 7 years.
@DarkVengeance0938 Sousaphones are a unique instrument from the tuba. They fill the same roles, but sousaphones are wrapped differently, have a different sound (tone quality is the most obvious), and project better. Tubas generally sound better though. Anyway, I think the tubaherd should invest in contras. They definitely have enough people to still put out a lot of sound.
Yeah, at my school we have Yamaha metal sousaphones and we have to make a contract (if we break it, we pay for it basically) and it has the original price on it. They definitely don't cost $475000, I think they cost around $6000 or $7000, somewhere around there. So its around $120000 - $140000 for all of them. If it is more than $200000 then Auburn University has money to waste.
Hey when I was in high school we made that up almost 20 years ago. It's called nice & slow & it was a smooth & speedy y'all sound good. Could show you some missing parts. Marching 100.
In case people dont realise, tubas sound a lot clearer when you hear them in person, recordings generally dont pick up the low bassy sound of the tuba or sousaphone very well, and the reason they sound so gritty and kind of "kazoo"ey is because of that, that's not to take away though that sousaphones generally sound worse than concert tubas
Would like this comment but it has 69 likes
I honestly have an opinion that the recordings are pretty cool and the gritty sound kinda just makes it somewhat enjoyable...
Being in a brass band I can confirm this is true
sousaphones are also generally designed to be louder and give a powerful brassy feel whereas concert tubas give the low bassy mellow sound, they dont necessarily sound worse, just different from concert tubas.
Sousaphones sound more piercing because the bell of the instrument faces forward, unlike the tuba and other members of the tuba family such as the euphonium, which the bell faces upward. With the sousaphone, the sound is going in a different direction than that of the tuba.
*birds chirping peacefully in the background*
Tubas: I’m boutta end this mans whole career.
Sousaphone*
HI5 Qiwi A sousaphone is a tuba😂
ColoR WaY it’s just really not a tuba though is it
Oli McGinnes nah nah nah a sousaphone is more of a tuba than a tuba watchu mean😂 sousaphones suck tho contras all the way (which are also tubas)
ColoR WaY call them by there respected names your making me recoil in my own skin
I wish I was there to feel it
Oh you would feel it alright
Feel what? I guess 🤷🏽♂️
I feel it alright, just Bluetooth it to you surround sound lol.
Feel wat??
I've heard tenor and bari sax wit more power no lie
ive watched this a few times now and i just realised that the director doesnt have any shoes on
O_O
BY GOD
LOL
I've watched this for 4 years, and just now realized that as well.
Casual Reviewer why and how
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To all the people saying it sucks, i agree it needs one more thing. MORE TUBAS
Nicholas Mccarthy yes definitely
Nicholas Mccarthy TWO HUNDRED PERCENT YES!
+Nicholas Mccarthy yeeeeeeeeeeeah
+Nicholas Mccarthy *sousaphones
Ultraviolet Creations sorry mom
As a Euphonium player myself (I wish people knew what that is...) I'm a big fan of tubas.
Play that in 6th grade and then switched to percussion
The baritone is great
I play the euphonium and found out that no one really cares about it (I do though, there is never any fun songs for the euphonium tho :(
@@amanthatisnowhere bruh the baritone is a completely different instrument 🤦.
Please tell me the difference between the baritone and the euphonium
you really need good speakers or headphones to capture the awesomeness of the tuba. I just got a new pair of headphones today and it makes this song rock!! Not like doesn't already!
Bro that’s an old comment
I agree, I got some good headphones and I was able to capture the awesomeness of the sousaphones here.
Everyone saying "I'm on my second year of playing and I can do this" Has obviously never played a sousaphone
I'm on my first year of sousaphone and CAN do this
Tommy Ellis
me to marching band
triston ferrell likewise. Only sousaphone in the band
+TheJimjimboy THANK YOU SIR!!!
i probs couldve on my first year on sousa easy
all the tuba players say yeah
Yeah
YEAH!
YEAH!
YEAH!!!
Yeh
UA-cam algorithm when uploaded: ...
11 years later: let’s recommend it
Rephrase this meme bruh
Tuba Earthquake
HP: 3092
DEFENSE: 1294
ATTACK: 2737
SKILL: CAUSES EARTHQUAKES OF MAGNITUDE 10
I'm the only sousaphone in my band
I'm in a small ass band, so there is only like 20 people, and I feel like I'm the only alto saxophone most of the time.
I'm the only tuba player in my grade, but two gradesdown is four godam tubas! 😱
gumball nightmare There are 5 tuba players including me in are band
cool what kind of tuba music do yall play?
gumball nightmare well right now we are doing valiance, rockin rondeu and my favorite cocles and mussels because it a tuba,bassoon,bari sax and bass clarinet
I'm a sousa player, so just seeing this beautiful image of like 20 sousaphones alone made me click the video
what’s your instagram. i have a video of our marching band comp and we did earthquake w 44 tubas
My band only has 8 Sousa players 😔
Hitler Son check my vid:)
@@chxser6 My marching band this last season only has 3 including me but we sounded beastly!
Imagine the earrape you’d get standing in the middle of that
Don't need to imagine
Beautiful isn’t it?
Man these guys are tight. Respect for them and the hard work they must put in to achieve this sound.
Amen brother! I play sousa and own mine too!
Zach G no they sound like shit
Haha sike, try 6-12 hours a day for 60-80 days with half that section size and sound worlds better. The sousa section couldnt even get in time with each other.
Well basic counting says that there are only nineteen tubas.
So that's a damn sexy $143,000
but there is tax. Which in Auburn in 9%
So that's a damn sexy, $155,780!
There was me and 2 guys in my band that played sousaphone and I miss it so much I’m about to graduate and I don’t know what I’m going to do without marching and playing sousaphone
The low brass at my school would play this all of the time during the assemblies and halftime shows. And man that was fun. We took a trip to New Orleans this year and we played it there too.The crowd was getting really into it and danced along with us.
Which high school did you go to? Was it in East Texas?
That will be me some day I started bane thus year 2019 and I'm playing the tuba as well
I marched in the Auburn Band 1978-83 and the drum line(US) and the tuba section always had a rivalry going into the stadium. We stood down on the sidelines and played as the band marched into the stands. Well, the tuba section also stood on the sideline and made up dance moves (if you want to call them that) to our music. The crowd loved the drum line and tolerated the tuba section. Ha! Anyway, War Eagle guys.Glad to see the tradition continue. Hopefully the 2013 season will be a good one!
It's "La Calavera" of band "Imperial" de Oaxaca Mexico
Fue lo que pensé
Exactamente😎
Los de la imperial se la copiaron!!!!
Jajajaja vine a vuscar este comentario XD ARRIBA OAXACA ¡
No they are the creator of it but band imperial copied it
I've only played sousaphone once, and that was for a marching festival in 7th grade, with that many tubas, it would've been really cool to see this in person because sousaphones are loud by themselves.
it sounds alot different when you are actually there..
this is coming from a sousaphonist,
we did this with our band and the drum line the dry line had a part
Possibly, as I don't personally own a tuba. However, Tubas that nice are most definitely not cheap. I was simply alluding to the fact that 18 top-of-the-line, well-maintained tubas would cost quite a sum of money. Also, the fact that 18 top-of-the-line, well-maintained tubas gathered in one place is most certainly an impressive sight.
I learned how to play this the other day on tuba i love it
Stephanie Parris YES
I'm a trumpetist (universal overlord), math is beneath me.
$150,000 is nothing to me! But in that damn sexy of a form, it is a formidable force in the universe!
Mi México hizo de esa pieza un tema carnavalero amo a mi México
Somos calaveras por si la quieren escuchar en banda carnavalera
Así es. Puro oaxaca.
South Carolina BDA State Finals for 5A high school. Proud to be a tuba(Sousa) player in this state. Got 4th in boa Jacksonville Alabama:D
NEVER HEARD IT AT THIS TEMPO BUT IT STILL SOUNDS NICE
Actual there are several different types of tuba. Sousaphones are the ones blowing their brains out above. "Contras" (contrabass Tuba) is the marching sholder tuba that Can be a conveted to a Concert tuba. a marching tuba is most commonly assosiated with a Bell frount Concert horn Used befor Sousaphones and Contras were Created. Basicly there are alot of tubas used for many Different reasons, Such as the Lusophone.
It’s sounds like this Mexican song it’s called---- :la calavera Banda imperial de huajuepens
Nicoboi2 Dark Astro I come from from a HS band that plays this song along with a DL cadence and we just found out about that La calavera a few months ago and it’s crazy lol
Its based on a brothers johnson song
It is la calavera. My parents are from that town from Mexico where the band that plays it is from
I am so used to seeing only 6 sousas at the max...
Sooo... Many... Sousas... It makes me smile . :D
This is pretty great gotta say. I wish I had more sousas in my band. It would sure make my job easier seeing as it's me and one other
Sir Crystal they sound terrible tho
@@hokagecutt72 you also gotta think, this was posted in 2008. Sound quality of video cameras/phones back then were pretty garbage. Plus, tubas don't sound fantastic on recordings even now. So it might've sounded fantastic in person
Depends also if the play different notes ,then you can get summation and differenceiationon . say 2 horns
play an open fifth ( relates like 2 to 3) then one can hear beat frequencies like nr 5 and the fundamental nr 1. Lets say in notes they are playing C and G,one will hear also(weaker) the E above and the Fundamental C. Its a reason why all the instruments should be in tune. Its very noticable with flutes.
Hay otra versión pero versión oaxacaqueña busquenla como la calavera
No es otra versión, es la misma versión copia de esta de la película transformers
In Marching Band, a band size is measured not by how many people they have, but by how many Sousaphones they have, for they are more noticable.
my band only has 3 sousas
My band does also (im one) and we play sonic boom and we are gonna play this one. It is totally possible to play these songs in a small band with some loud Sousas
well we have like 80 players so we're not really small. we're average
Yeah that's a good sized band. You guys should do some sousa songs. They are super fun and you could even get the music for the whole band if you wanted
lol sadly our band director refuses to do pep band in class. He spends class time on Marching band until the season ends and then we play concert music to practice for concert festival.
Oh my band has two different classes, one for advanced players and the other for less advanced players. I'm in the advanced class and we work on solely concert music now while the other class works on marching
"The Tuba Herd" I lol'd.
The tubas in my school's band r always playing this lol
@TrueTrombone352 Actually, yes. The Baritone has a bell that points outward, has valves on the front, facing outward like the bell, and usually has three valves. The Euphonium, however, has a bell that is simular to a tuba's, pointing straight up, like a raincatcher, as well as it usually has four or five valves. The Euphonium is almost literally a small tuba.
Well, there's half the sousaphone players in the US right there
@TeamSolidStarCraft There is a marching baritone as well. Drum Corps used both. A marching baritone is smaller than the marching euphonium. But typically in high schools they are using euphonium.
19 Sousas =D ftw!!
I played in the BOOM!!! and this was VERY NICE .... just alittle choppy... but very clean and you heard everything... GOOD JOB GUYS
My band has like 10 or 11 Sousa’s
I JUST CRIED AND JIZZED AT THE SAME TIME!!!!
ecelente !
I love this so much😭
It sound pretty good if they added a full drumline in the middle there and maybe some trumpets or trombones, it would be a lot cooler too
ehhh percussion o.e
This is a tuba cadence lol
Douglas Mullen fanfare*
*cadence
Douglas Mullen Fanfare, drums play cadences dumbass
this seriously made me think of how much of a better tuba player i could be, I love this lol
Someone isn't using good enough air... just playing loud. (Cough cough)
TUBA FOR LIFE
My band has 5 Sousa’s and one of them is louder than all of these guys together
HOLY BATMAN! LOVE THIS! DAAAM! FROM BRAZIL!
they okay
Really
@Kitts90 In my band we use the four-valved Euphonium, for marching, we use what is probably the Marching Euphonuim.
splat splat splat splat!~
Yea all fan fares and pep tunes are played by splatting
Hater hater hater hater
Dont forget flam flam flam flam!~
Wow. Acoustic Paradise
can we please all take a second to realize how awfully they all sped up during the half timed phrase of the piece
HBCU bands are only good at playing loud.
@@sceu25not really
@@THETOPMAN97 bro that was two years ago lol I’m cool with HBCU style now
exactly cuz if theyre awesome you only need a few, we have 3 and we can out play the band if we want
The songs needs a snare and a some tenors.
And you need to turn that frown upside down
banter
no tubas are perfect how they are
+PixlSwift you disgust me. Ew
+PixlSwift NO OTHER INSTRUMENT COULD MATCH THE BEAUTY THAT IS THE TUBA!!!!
Good:) I'm in middle school 2 nd year of me being a tuba player and man this is good
suena a pedos :v
See that? That's approximately one-million dollars right there.
A damn sexy lookin' one-million dollars.
Contras sound better than sousas. Sorry guys.
Play tuba and a freshman next year. Cant wait.
Sounds like a big crap. Like when your farting
Fuck you
Fuck you
You never heard sousaphones before? But even so, your sense of taste in music is just as bad as the believers.
KAME HAMEHA I agree with that guy, contras/marching tubas sound a lot better and can get a clearer tone than a sousa
if you haven't heard any DCI corps use them, you're missing out
Owen Shapley
But still, its not that bad. Its probably only the quality of the video. I heard my high school's marching band play sousaphones, and they had a really good tone quality. Brass instruments usually sound a little weird in videos, unless u use pro equipments.
I see the show band style is spreading. The is a super old Tuba fanfare. I guess new to these guys.
I wish there was a clip of Morris Brown college tubas section playing this from 1990. They played the shit out of this.
There is a version made by a band of Oaxaca , "La calavera"
I wish we had more base players out our school im the only one that plays tuba and sousaphone when we play for a concert i play the baritone.
that person playing the tuba is the best !
@DarkVengeance0938 No, actually, a contra-bass bugle, commonly known as just a Contra, is the marching tuba, sousaphones are a variant of the Helicon invented in the 1920's by John Phillip Sousa.
This sounds really good.
Rich and punchy!
Awesome. I love it. Even though I'm a trombonist
@TeamSolidStarCraft I started out on trombone, along with three of my buddies, one of my buddies and I moved to different low brass instruments, I went to Euph. and my buddy went to tuba, he loves it to this day
@trumpeteronthefoof A mellophone is nothing like a horn. A mello has less than half the tubing, different bore, less conical, piston valves, different mouthpiece, etc. In playing the two, the differences are apparent, but it's a necessary evil to fill the alto brass voice.
THAT IS FREAKING AWSOME
I’m in my freshman year in high school, first year in marching band, and I’m trying to learn this. I’m also a tuba
We were supposed to have 26 tubas in a high school marching band this year.
damn that is the most tubas i have ever seen in one place. we only have like 4 tubas in our MB
That is the skull sound known in Mexico
@kingjokerful No it's not. It's a sousaphone. I've played sousaphone, tuba, convertible concert tuba for field, and a G contrabass bugle (along with other brass and even woodwinds). The differences are subtle, but differences just the same.
Instruments are like a human body. A sousouphone or tuba is the blood flow. Something that should bit just be by itself
It has the unique sound of the original tuba, which is different from the FRP Southaphone.
Its closer to the 120,000 to 160,000 dollar range usually 6,000 to 8,000 a piece.
if the sound of 1 tuba is 100% then 2 Tubas are together 110% ,3 Tubas are 111% . To amass instruments doesn't produce loudness but shimmering golden sound, which you could hear in long notes.
Seems like a cursory Google is showing me that a good sousaphone would be not much more than $8k, so 18 of them is about $144k, so no where close to one-million dollars, but certainly a beautiful sight.
So many .. Sousas ... I wish we had so many :D
I wish my Tuba section was have as big because with only 2 tubas in the band that made us look smaller than what we realy here, but we held it down though
When my high school's lucky enough to have a tuba player in marching band, we use contras. We have three that can be converted to concert tubas. my band has averaged about 45 people (including Color guard) for the last 7 years.
Mesmerizing....
La Calabera??
I actually love this and yes I am a musician....few tweaks needed on the bottom articulation...
*GASP* Thats a lot of tubas . . . . :D
@DarkVengeance0938 Sousaphones are a unique instrument from the tuba. They fill the same roles, but sousaphones are wrapped differently, have a different sound (tone quality is the most obvious), and project better.
Tubas generally sound better though.
Anyway, I think the tubaherd should invest in contras. They definitely have enough people to still put out a lot of sound.
Yeah, at my school we have Yamaha metal sousaphones and we have to make a contract (if we break it, we pay for it basically) and it has the original price on it. They definitely don't cost $475000, I think they cost around $6000 or $7000, somewhere around there. So its around $120000 - $140000 for all of them. If it is more than $200000 then Auburn University has money to waste.
wow I am blown away
Hey when I was in high school we made that up almost 20 years ago. It's called nice & slow & it was a smooth & speedy y'all sound good. Could show you some missing parts.
Marching 100.