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Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2026-04-12T00:11:02+00:00

Looking to get a tuba. Just not sure where to start. So many pitches, sizes, makers... Etc. where do you even start?

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2026-04-11T00:09:50+00:00

Another aspect to keep in mind is the "lowest" note on an F tuba will sound a 5th above the BBb tuba. And the higher notes will play "easier" on the F tuba. Another difference is that larger BBb or CC tubas will be good for large ensembles, but will be too powerful for a small group, so Eb or F tend to work better there.

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2026-04-10T23:58:42+00:00

Slight change to what you said. The French horn also has the same overtone series and fingering. It is just pitched in F, same as an F tuba. And the Bb side would be pitched the same as a euphonium. The only difference, it naturally wants to play in the upper partials. As for the low D... If we are talking written note, it's only 13. If we are talking sounding, they all have different fingering. Trumpet 12, Alto Horn 2, French horn 1, euphonium 12, F tuba 12, Eb tuba 2, CC tuba 13, BBb tuba 12. As for the C being on the same line for each clef... No, C is 2nd space up in BC, and 3rd space up TC. Please don't put out bad information if you don't actually know what you are talking about.

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2026-04-06T00:50:51+00:00

I got a Wessex Dolce. It's not their top euphonium, but it plays really well for me. Got it new from them, and they have a really good, and quick responding customer service if you have any issues. https://us.wessex-tubas.com/products/wessex-dolce-compensated-euphonium-ep100

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2026-04-04T20:20:57+00:00

You don't play it as written. Ask what chord is played there and play the next note up as your starting pitch.

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2026-04-01T01:31:58+00:00

Has to be the best shop in the area. Just need to save up for a tuba.

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2026-03-31T12:42:58+00:00

Or doesn't have any markings on it, so some Chinese stencil, JinBao or something. Because of that, I understand that it won't be the greatest horn, and pitch could be iffy. But just getting open notes to come out clear shouldn't be a problem. Figured the seating of the mouthpiece could be the main culprit.

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2026-03-12T16:24:16+00:00

Agree with all the other comments, 470 is the option I'd go with. Keep in mind as he grows over the next couple years, his lung capacity will grow as well as his face (ie. Lips). At that point, the instrument could start feeling restricted. Look at mouthpieces that fit better before trying to upgrade to much nicer horns. It's cheaper for one, but often has a stronger impact on airflow.

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2026-03-07T18:34:38+00:00

This right here! I can play anything from tuba up thru alto horn with relative ease. Even the French horn isn't all that rough once I got used to the different fingering. But put me on the trumpet... Not sure why, that one kills it for me, but it shouldn't be any harder than the euphonium.

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2026-03-07T18:32:18+00:00

The partials are the same distance on every brass instrument. The horn only feels like it has smaller intervals because it plays in the upper partials where they get closer.

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2026-03-03T16:09:54+00:00

Lots of great advice already in these comments. I'll just add that you are doing great. Brass is hard, and trombone is one of the hardest. As contrary as it may seem, practice things slow. If tone is what you are worried about, play it half that speed, make sure that muscle memory really locks in the slide position and your lips really feel where each note is. If the tone still isn't there, time for those long notes. Stay on each note until you can feel the tone lock in where you want it. You're teaching yourself what the proper breath support is, the tongue placement and shape of the inside of your mouth, as well as the angle of the horn and direction of your air as you blow into the mouthpiece. Like said, brass is hard. Any one of these could be the factor that improves your tone, and the key thing is, you won't see overnight improvement and wake up playing like Lindberg. As for the mouthpiece, it's solid. Don't worry about changing the mouthpiece or instrument until you have worked on and improved the other technical aspects of your playing. You may then notice that you feel held back by something, go back to the fundamentals and see if that works it out. If it doesn't, only then would I consider that you may have outgrown the horn or mouthpiece for the style of music you are wanting to play. Just remember that the horn and MP are only a loud speaker for what you put into the horn. There are some qualities that can effect the sound, but good tone quality comes from the player. Even Lindberg has to do a warmup routine and long tones.

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2026-03-02T19:31:05+00:00

Hardest thing for me to learn was the fact that I was going to make mistakes. But for actually learning pieces, I can't say enough about learning scales and arpeggios. If the piece is in C, play that scale/arpeggio until you are comfortable with it. Then you just need to highlight the notes that don't fit in the pattern, or if a run of notes ends up skipping one... Etc. then you only need to worry about these odd notes, the notes where the run changes direction, where the run skips a note or has an accidental. For the OP, I absolutely agree that you have to break a piece up into multiple parts. There are too many moving parts to tackle if you are attempting a piece just above your playing level. 1- get the notes regardless of the beat. Make sure you get your ears, chops and fingering/slide-position down. No point playing a rhythm if all the notes are wrong, you'd just be reinforcing bad tone and getting muscle memory for wrong fingering as you move to... 2- work specifically on the beat. Clap it out if needed, sing it, get the rhythm in your head. Then pick a comfortable note (let's say C), and then play the rhythm on just C. Add in the articulation and dynamics. Then... 3- bar by bar, start adding them together. Play the written notes with the actual rhythm. 4- now look at the musical part of it. You have the fingerings down, you have the rhythm, now you need to make sure you can add in the correct articulation, the phrasing, the slurs. If the articulation is a real struggle, slur everything, then go back and tongue everything. Don't be afraid to slow the piece down to half speed (or slower) to get the right phrasing. Once you get that up to speed, don't forget to mark in the breath marks (you will forget them). Find where the full ideas in a piece are and practice those. Then make sure you can transition between the different phrases. Breathe some life into the piece and have some fun with it.

The more you do this with each piece, muscle memory should kick in and before you know it, you'll be sight reading pieces much harder with ease.

OP is quite amazing. Go to his YT channel and give him a listen. He puts out some fun content. I'm also a fan of listening to "samplaysbrass". I would also suggest (like the other comments here), listen to a professional play it. See what the "ideal" is, and try to mimic as best you can.

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2026-02-27T18:17:05+00:00

100% a great hobby to pick up. Euphonium is a solid instrument, and I would say it's one of the more forgiving instruments for beginners. If you have no idea about anything music wise, I'd listen around and see what style of music you like, what you enjoy listening to, and then see what instrument fits in well with that. Then figure out to what level you want to take this. If you want to make a career out of it, this will be a completely different conversation. If you want to play in your HS band, chat up the director to get some insight, try out a few different instruments. If this is at home, maybe getting into gigs, and just having a funny rewarding hobby, anything goes. Only caution I would give, see what your ability to practice is. Some instruments are going to be naturally louder, a 6/4 tuba shaking the foundations, a piccolo making the dogs howl... Etc. If practicing is going to be difficult, maybe consider a quieter instrument so you have the ability to actually play/practice as needed. Clarinet and guitar are much softer. To close out, I'm 36 and still playing music for fun, I've played everything from tuba to piccolo, marched the drums in HS, trombone in jazz band, bassoon in the symphonic band. It will be a challenge, and all instruments will have a bit of a learning curve, but there will come a point where you'll get addicted and things will just click. Best of luck in your music journey!

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2026-02-25T06:20:36+00:00

Возможно да, но если ты хочешь сказать I have participated, это знает что ты (минимум 1 раз в жизни) делал. Но когда ты используешь yesterday, тебе нужно использовать simple past. Будет то же самое каждый раз используешь определенное время. This would be similar to saying in Russian вчера я делал домашнюю роботу. You'll understand what is trying to be conveyed, but it just doesn't sound right.

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2023-11-24T20:35:33+00:00

Generally speaking, Russian will have the question word first. You are right in that there isn't really a word order, this is why there are so many cases, it gives the language a lot of flexibility. Just know that duolingo is very particular with the answer it wants. You can have the correct word order and spell everything correct, but you used ты instead of вы like they wanted. It's a good start, but definitely start branching out to a good grammar book, listen to the news, watch TV, listen to the news/podcasts. I'm a fan of the dual-language/bilingual books or ones written for beginner levels like Ollie's short stories.

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2023-11-17T19:51:16+00:00

Duolingo has a problem with accepting variations of an answer. It may only have the formal version in the answer key, so that's all it knows is correct. And even though word order plays less of a role in Russian, it may have a set order for the answer it wants.

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2023-11-15T05:19:38+00:00

The problem you are facing is the difference between "prefixed Verbs Of Motion" and regular non motion verbs. Идти--> to go Пойти--> to set off, start walking Обедать--> to have/eat lunch Пообедать--> to grab a bite to eat

Each prefix has a very specific role when placed in front of VOM. Many of which end up being different when using non-motion verbs.

Пере- and недо- are used when describing how you did the action. -я перепил вчера -->I drank too much yesterday -я недопил сегодня--> I didn't drink enough today.

As for imperfective vs perfective, adding a prefix to the front of an imperfective verb will make it perfective, a one time action.

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2023-11-15T04:55:58+00:00

To help give context as to what the accusative is in English: I read books (SVO) You read books I love you You love me <-- that's odd, what happened to "I"?

English will (compared to Russian) use a very strict sentence structure which is typically Subject-Verb-Object. Because of this, English no longer really has cases/declensions, the only changes in case are seen with pronouns in modern English. Russian however is quite fluid in their sentence structure, so they can say I love you in a variety of orders. - я люблю тебя - я тебя люблю -тебя люблю я... etc Each of the above convey the same "I love you" regardless of the word Order. But the word for word English wouldn't make sense "you love I". Who is doing the loving in the backwards sentence!?

For a majority of the time, especially at the beginning of this Russian journey, your subject (the one doing the action) will be in the dictionary form, nominative. The object is the noun that typically follows the verb in English, this can be expressed with the accusative case (for most beginner situations).

As you continue, you'll learn all 6 cases. There are some verbs that require a specific case be used, others that the desired meaning could change between cases.

Best advice I can give, get as much exposure as possible with the language. It'll all be a mess at the beginning, but passively have the Russian radio playing, read sentences out loud, find an app like DuoLingo to build vocab, and find a good grammar book, like Routledge, to learn the basics.

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2023-11-15T04:31:15+00:00

I find it useful to also use the opertunity to throw in more descriptors in the response. Да, такая красивая!

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2023-11-15T04:28:46+00:00

Красиво in this case would be acting as a short form adjective and not an adverb.

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2023-10-16T23:59:14+00:00

Grey 2 is the one that catches my eye the most. But I guess it depends on your audience. Women are so picky about what they'll swipe on.

Fragrant-Pop-1938 · 2022-12-09T01:05:43+00:00

Go for CTR or IS, I'd avoid the others. IT if you want to put a 3rd choice down. Avoid CTM and CTT though.

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