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Growing Our Young Tubists
The tuba provides many challenges for our young tubists beyond its weight and height. And a section of tubas can provide a great many challenges for a band director. A great tuba section provides a beautiful lush bottom to the band’s sound.
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Brass Cueing Technique – Not Just Breathing
Evidently, integrating a clear and rhythmically decisive breath into a cue can be quite unnatural to many brass students. This is, most likely, simply a result of a lack of practice. When musicians are alone practicing their individual part…
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All Music Begins with a Good Breath (and Dies with a Lack Thereof)
Ask any brass or woodwind student or band director what the most important aspect of playing a wind instrument is and most will respond that it is the ability to effectively use one's air. Ask them to estimate how much breathing and air…
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Brass Production Trombone & Euphonium Ergonomics
by M. Dee Stewart
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