Getchell #81 - Tuba Lesson

I'm starting to speak now. Alright, here's number 81 out of the Gadgill second book, this one's in E minor, one sharp, so don't miss your F sharps, twos and threes, don't miss your B naturals in the step one and two, or your low B naturals, all three vowels, or two preferably, two and four, on four vowels, two of it. Let's play the first eight measures or so. What I want to do is draw special attention to the difference in rhythm between the triplet subdivisions and then the dotted eight sixteenth rhythms. So basically what you need to hear is three sixteenth notes inside of every dotted eight note. So if I'm thinking of the subdivision, if I sing in the beginning of this, I'm thinking one triplet one da two e and a one triplet one da two e and a one triplet one da two e and a one triplet one. So I'm really thinking about those sixteenth notes, one da two e and a one, and I'm getting that last sixteenth note really to pop out and be really snappy and precise, and that is going to be the absolute key to being able to play this thing with good style. Also, legereo means kind of lightly, kind of playfully, okay? So not too heavy, keep it moving forward, not too slow, but be sure, even though you play fast, don't let the dotted eight sixteenth swing like too tight triplets. Make sure you hear all the sixteenth notes. Here's the first eight measures. One, two, three. Slower. One, two, three. Alright, here's the next eight measures. I'll play it slow first, then fast. One, two, three. Watch yourself coming down the scale pattern there, right? You get that line, you get the E, D, C sharp, the same as D flat, C natural, down to B natural. So everything from that D down to the B is all chromatic, so don't be missing any notes, and watch for your leading tone, D sharp, same thing as E flat, a half step away from that second vowel, E natural. Alright, let's play a little quicker there. One, two, three. One thing that will help these sixteenth notes is a slight accent on the single sixteenth. It will help it pop out and give it some energy. Alright, let's look at the next eight bars. One, two, slower. Alright, a little quicker. One, two, three. Pretty easy, kind of as far as the scale pattern. Now the next eight bars or so, it's a little trickier. What we have here, there's some leaps in the dotted eighth sixteenth pattern, so watch out for these arpeggios, these leaps, make sure they're nice and clean, slowly. One, two, three. Watch out for that triplet and the dotted eighth sixteenth in the same measure, that if you feel unconfident, practice with a metronome, and make sure that you leave the sixteenth subdivision on, you'll really be able to hear that dotted eighth sixteenth pop. Let's play that tempo one more time. One, two, three. Alright, let's look at the last bit of last eight measures. One, two, three. Alright, right there, watch the ending there, you have your C sharp second vowel, same as your D flat, and your D sharp first vowel, leading tone, going to E, second vowel. Play that one more time. One, two, three. The key to this one is just the right notes, keep the rhythm with lots of integrity, subdivide during the dotted eighths and sixteenths, and you'll be very on your way to playing this leggero lightly, cleanly, and you'll get lots of points.