Tuba Note Slurring & Playing Legato

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Summary: Slur notes or play legato on the tuba; learn how with tips from our expert tuba player in this free tuba video music lesson on brass instruments.

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Eric Williams Eric Williams of “Eric Williams and the Cruisers” lives in Sedona Az. His band is successful throughout Arizona. He also teaches guitar, voice and other in... read more

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Tuba Note Slurring & Playing Legato

On behalf of expertvillage.com, I'm Eric Williams; I'm here to tell you about the tuba. Another with the tuba and actually any Brass instrument is slurring, slur. A slur is to connect two notes without tonguing in between. It's the opposite of tonguing. Slurring is a good thing to do on open notes, because the valving will not get in the way. Let me try some different slurs and see if they sound okay. I'm going from low B flat to F and back to B flat. I'm not articulating with the tongue in between. I'm simply changing my lip buzzing from the lower more relax buzzing of the B flat, to the tighter buzzing that is required for the F and then trying to relax back down to the B flat. Very good for building your arbiture. You notice I'm not using any valves, I'm making the pitch change strictly with my lip buzzing and I'm slurring the notes together. Let me try a three note slur. So I went from low B flat to F to high B flat which I actually overshot a little bit but then I fixed it. Then I went the high B flat down to F, and then back to B flat. I've been playing a lot of trumpet lately which has kind of distorted my former Tuba accomplishments. Whenever you play a very small mouth piece instrument and then you go back to the Tuba, a lot of your technique goes away and if I go back to playing Trumpet tomorrow I'm going to be very, very unhappy with myself for playing all of this tuba because I'm not going to be able to hit any notes anymore. But I'll try! The mouthpiece is giving me fits. What you do is you lip slur from low B flat to F up to B flat and then back down. Try again! Alright that was much more respectable. Lip slurring where you're not using tonguing or articulation in between.