TUBA AND SOUSAPHONE PLAYING

Foreword: The Tuba Family; The Tuba and Its Possibilies; The Fourth Valve; Tone; Breath Control; The Mouthpiece; Systematic Practise. Rudiments of Music. Fingering Charts. Lesson One: Attacks and Open tones. Lesson two: FIngered Tones and Scale Building. Lesson Three: Scale Studies; A Melody. Lesson Four: Long Tone Exercises. Lesson Five: Scale of C; Elementary Rapid Tonguing Exercises. Lesson Six: Easy Intervals - Thirs. Lesson Seven: The Slur. Lesson Eight: Scale Exercises - In Bb. Lesson Nine: Scale Exercises - Intervals of a Fourth. Lesson Ten: The Triplet. Lesson Eleven: Exercises employing Triplets. Lesson Twelvw: The Staccato; Exercises in 6/8 time. Lesson Thirteen: The F major Scale; scale exercises. Lesson Fourteen: Sixteenth Note Exercises. Lesson Fifteen: The Chromatic Scale. Lesson Sixteen: The A flat major Scale; Chromatic Triplets. Lesson Seventeen: Three Marches... 1. Achievement (Vandercook); 2. Washington Post March (Sousa); 3. The Pride of America (Goldman). Lesson Eighteen: Key of G major; Scale Exercises. Lesson Nineteen: Syncopation. Lesson Twenty: Embellishments: The Gruppetto; The Double Appogiatura; Short Appogiatura (grace note). Lesson Twenty-one: Dance and Jazz syncopation and rhythmic "licks". Lesson Twenty-two: D flat Major scale; The Trill; Table of Trills. Lesson Twenty-three: G flat Major scale; Double-tonguing. Lesson Twenty-four: Triple-tonguing. Lesson Twenty-five: Major and Relative Minor Scale (all keys). Lesson Twenty-six: Intervals. Lesson Twenty-seven: Arpeggios upon Perfect, Dominant Seventh and Diminished Seventh Chord. Lesson Twenty-eight: Exercises Conducive to Lip flexibility. Solo Studies - Typical Tuba Parts - Excerpts from 22 representative Band works: Poet and Peasant Overture / Suppé; Martha Overture / Flotow; Mignon Overture / Thomas; Pique Dame Overture / Suppé; Fest - Overture / Lassen; Overture "1812" / Tchaikousky; The Magic Flute Overture / Mozart; Oberon Overture / Weber; Euryanthe Overture / Weber; Merry Wives Windsor Overture / Nicolai; Maritana Overture / Wallace; Rosamunde Overture / Schubert; Semiramide Overture / Rossini; Maximilian Robespierre Overture / Litolff; Ballet Egyptien / Luigini; Scenes Pittoresques / Massenet; Reminiscences of Scotland / Godfrey; Caprice Italien / Tchaikovsky; Rienzi Overture / Wagner; Die Meistersinger Overture / Wagner; Midsummer Night's Dream Overture / Mendelssohn; Hungarian March / Berlioz.