Tonguing & Breathing Tuba Tips

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On behalf of expertvillage.com, I'm Eric Williams, I'm here to tell you about the tuba. Let me give you some more fundementails. Of course when ever you play any wind instruments, it's almost like singing were you really need actally breathe from down low and get a strong breath from low in the diaphragm region so your lungs are fully expanded. Then, you do the buzzing into the mouth piece and into the horn. But, we need to talk about articulation. Sometimes, when you begin there are so many things to think about, I don't bombard the students with tongueing on top of it, but, you do need to be aware that when you play a note that you don't just let the air through the mouth piece, you have to tongue the air through the mouth piece. What that means is that you build the air pressure up and you get ready to buzz with your lips but then you release the air by haveing your tongue up in the ruff of your mouth and resting behind your two upper front teeth. And, then when ever you go to tongue you let the tongue down and the air streames explodes out from that. Some people use the sound , Ta -ta ta ta ta ta as you making the notes you can go da da da da which is a little bit softer for articulation. What ever you choose you want to feel that your tongue is actually at the ver back of those two front teeth and your tongue slips away from that and articulation is what lets the air stream go through the mouth piece. Sounds kinda like this.. here is buzzing by itself.... here is buzzing articulating notes.... I'm using to to to to to to to to, it makes the horn respond much better. Let me try the mouth piece in the tuba and see what it does. Mouth piece going in with a little twist. Here is a articulated note. And , that gives you a little bit more articulation. Let's try articulating each note of the B flat scale. Interesting, so tonguing, lets try it down there on low B flat.

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