Im a highschool tuba player and I want to improve my sections playing skills. We are a HBCU type show band, so the tubas are required to “crank” . So far, the three 3 out of 9 of us can crank easily. One of us can play out, but not all his notes are full, and he has to puff his cheeks and jump around just to crank. The other 5 can’t really crank, much less even get a full and dark tone in the sousaphone. I just want some exercises and practices to get them all on our skill level. Most of them are really thin and sound airy. For context we all play on 3 valve Yamaha sousaphones.
u/Educational_Pay_7152 — 2 months ago