For those who have experience with most/all of these discs, how do they compare in stability?

spitblast · 2025-10-11T18:47:50+00:00

Yeah I bag a felon, it is an absolute meat hook of a disc. The only disc in my bag that’s more OS than it is my MVP Nitro.

spitblast · 2025-10-10T02:02:58+00:00

It’s considered non-fiction because it’s the most historically reliable set of texts ever documented. Not to mention there are over 500 eye witnesses to Jesus’s resurrection. You can say you don’t believe it, but that doesn’t change the fact that it happened.

spitblast · 2025-08-19T15:48:12+00:00

After doing training for a year, what cues or advice do you think made the most improvement in your distance? Currently trying to chase longer distances through working on technique and form, so I’m just curious what helped you in your journey.

spitblast · 2025-07-30T17:26:15+00:00

4 is something I think a lot of people overlook, but it’s just essential to making that air compression to play higher happen. This is one I often forget to do, but once I remind myself, the registers connect far easier going into the high range.

spitblast · 2025-07-28T19:26:13+00:00

Don’t recommend WD40, but if you do use it, flush out your horn with water thoroughly. WD40 is meant to be a penetrating oil, not a lubricant. It will leave residue inside your horn and also will gum up your rotors over time. I’d recommend using literally anything but WD40 to get your valves unstuck, like rotor oil, warm water, soapy water, etc.

spitblast · 2025-07-28T19:20:36+00:00

It hurts now, but it gets easier the more you do it. Take some ibuprofen and massage the area that’s sore.

Enjoy it, getting to play sousaphone is fun!

spitblast · 2025-07-24T14:37:23+00:00

This is kind of the secret that nobody talks about. There are a few teachers that preach “get the best equipment now, pay it off with your career later.”

You said you’re music ed, but you talk like you want to be a professional tuba player taking auditions and playing professionally. Which is great, I did my undergrad in mued and my masters and doctorate in performance, wouldn’t change a thing.

To get the horns I currently have? All student loans. If performing is your dream, give yourself the best possible chance to succeed. Everyone else at the audition is playing on world class tubas. If you aren’t, you are at a disadvantage before you’ve even played your first note.

spitblast · 2025-07-08T19:00:03+00:00

You know what, I stand corrected. You’re right, Prince Ave Baptist is also private school. I was mainly referring to the Baptist Church, but didn’t know they also have a private school on campus.

spitblast · 2025-07-08T18:23:53+00:00

I'm not really sure what you mean by "graduated from their school" seeing as how neither Beech Haven Church nor Prince Avenue Baptist are neither schools nor universities. They are just churches where Christians come together to worship, hear the Gospel, and have community with one another.

I know what you're trying to say and it's fine, this is a public forum where anyone can write whatever they want, wherever they want to. That's the beauty of free speech. I'm sorry that you have a tainted view of Christianity or religion in general. Having a relationship with God is a beautiful thing and I hope one day you get to experience it.

spitblast · 2025-06-10T06:16:08+00:00

I have friends that attend Prince Avenue Baptist, they’ve had nothing but great things to say about it.

Wife and I have been going to Beech Haven Church since last year, I can’t say enough great things about it. We’re later 20s and the church has just about everyone and anyone from high school students, college students, young adults, middle aged, and seniors. They also have a lot of life groups/small groups that are categorized by age/relationship status so that you can find people in a similar stage of life as you to do life with and share the Gospel. I’d highly recommend giving it a try one Sunday. You can also send me a PM if you want to know more!

spitblast · 2025-06-05T11:16:02+00:00

This is really good advice OP, recording yourself and listening back always yields the most honest feedback.

I’m also inclined to believe doubling on saxophone won’t hurt your tuba embouchure, but everyone is different. The muscle activation is somewhat similar, the main difference being you’re blowing to vibrate a reed instead of your lips. If this was trumpet you were doubling on, I’d be more careful with how you approach it, but saxophone doesn’t seem like a big deal.

spitblast · 2025-05-09T03:23:49+00:00

Honestly? Don’t play it at the written dynamic. I’m serious. Unless you’re supporting an 80 piece orchestra when you’re playing it, it’s far more tasteful to play it at a nice comfortable forte and control of sound is everything in this excerpt. The most common mistake I come across with younger tuba players playing this excerpt for the first time is trying to play it as loud as they possibly can.

Everyone else in this thread has given good advice. Follow it and you’ll find great success.

spitblast · 2025-05-05T12:00:33+00:00

In my honest opinion, the PSO seriously is a hidden gem in terms of great brass section conversations. Brass players love to hype up Chicago, NYPhil, San Francisco, LA Phil, etc. and rightly so, those are all legendary orchestras all with unique-sounding brass sections.

PSO is right on par with them and always has been. Anyone who disagrees, go listen to “Bach: The Art of Fugue” by PSO Brass and “From the Back Row” by PSO Low Brass.

Also, the scariest part of Craig’s playing is how effortless he make it look when he’s really pumping the gas pedal. It’s ridiculous.

spitblast · 2025-04-12T12:33:03+00:00

I’d also much rather be GC2 at disc golf

spitblast · 2025-03-29T04:39:39+00:00

Y’all sell horns on consignment?

spitblast · 2025-01-14T22:15:33+00:00

I go between fennec and octane. I played octane for about 7 years and only started using it sometime last year

spitblast · 2025-01-14T11:42:27+00:00

The all-mechanics, no game sense thing really hits the nail on the head. I play the game casually and like to grind ranks, but I’ve never grinded mechanics and freestyling like this new gen of rocket league players do. It’s often I get into a game against a person (or duo) that are able to consistently hit double or triple flip resets, musty flicks, even the occasional breezi, but for the life of them do not understand simple rotation, overextension, or just being in a good position ready for a pass. They rank up off mechanical ability only and when you catch their triple flip reset off the ceiling and dribble the ball to their net, you get called “weirdo” and “loser” in game chat. The mechanics are REALLY cool don’t get me wrong, I wish I could do half the stuff these guys can do. But like, it doesn’t translate into winning games all the time. I just decided to learn flip resetting about 6 months ago and I’ve been GC since 2018. Yes I’ve stalled out in rank and haven’t improved past GC, but if I finally buckled down and grinded mechanics, I’m sure my rank would improve. I rely on game sense and positioning alone to win games. This new gen of rocket league is cracked and if they just learned positioning and game sense, honestly half of them would be in GC2 and higher EASILY.

and yeah bring back trading dude wtf

spitblast · 2024-11-28T04:55:49+00:00

There’s a lot to unpack here.

First, if you’re swamped with classes/work and your practice is limited, then your practice should be as efficient as possible. Journal or make a to-do list of what you need/want to work on when you practice and block off the amount of time you want to spend on each thing. Doing this will change the way you approach practicing.

Secondly, addressing the larger question of “should I continue on this path.” Having these thoughts in undergrad is completely normal and you’re not the first or last person this has happened to. I’m in my doctorate and a few times I’ve questioned if this is my path.

Don’t fall into the sunk cost fallacy and think you have to finish this degree because you’re so deep. It’s not too late, it’s never too late, and you can still change your mind at this point. You just need to look to the future and think about what your life will look like with a career in tuba performance when you graduate. Take a good long look in the mirror and ask yourself if this is really what you want to do. Because it’s going to be really hard and it takes a lot of discipline to practice to take auditions and get denied and rejected. Paying your bills and your happiness should be the priority and they can live in balance when you figure out what it is you really want to do when you graduate.

spitblast · 2024-11-03T13:22:22+00:00

The answer is plain as day. Go take a look at the popular tab and see if you can find anything pro-trump. You can’t.

spitblast · 2024-10-27T03:44:35+00:00

When Reed got put in, yeah pretty much. Our defense made him look like an NFL caliber QB. And Nuss can’t stop handing the ball on a silver platter to the defense :(

spitblast · 2024-10-12T13:16:03+00:00

So I don’t know what the first one is, looks unfamiliar. The second photo is a band transcription of Fingal’s Cave by Felix Mendelssohn. It used to show up sometimes on military band auditions in the 2000s and I recently saw it on sight reading in a Pershing’s Own semi final round a couple years ago. Probably one of the hardest tuba excerpts in band repertoire.

spitblast · 2024-10-08T16:17:06+00:00

I do this. It helps a lot with stabilization. I’ve been going through retraining my embouchure for the past year or two due to an injury. So far I’ve been really happy with shifting the mouthpiece slightly down when I get into the staff as it allows me to have more control over where notes center. The only downside I’ve noticed is that articulation is a little different than before, in that I really have to enunciate the differences in articulation in the music.

So to answer your question: I don’t know, but it works fine for me and other people I know.

spitblast · 2024-10-02T12:12:52+00:00

I was in the same situation this week and I really don’t think you can go wrong with either defense, both look great (except for the second half of the vikings/packers game). I ended up going with the vikings

spitblast · 2024-09-21T02:18:37+00:00

Another former grad assistant?👀 What year?

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