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Summary: Make different sounds on a tuba when playing; learn how with tips from our expert tuba player and teacher in this free tuba music education video.

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Kevin Smith Kevin is 51 years old, and a poet and therapist as well as tubist. Kevin has played a variety of musical styles over the course of his life, as well as a vari... read more

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How to Play Octaves on a Tuba

Hi Kevin Smith here again, TubaLove, I'm going to be talking to you very briefly about what I call the science of sound. And again this is going to be very brief because in the first place the science of sound encompasses volumes of information. And secondly I'm not really a scientist at all, but I think you know just if you have like I do and a lot people that I know who play music tend to have you know some kind of a math mind, too. And there's definitely a correlation between the two in the way that intervals are constructed and also just sound vibrations. So, fundamentally if you have a note that sounds the same as another note, but it's lower. Like this. They sound basically the same, but one sounds higher than the other. That in music, in Western music, is what is called an octave, ok, o c t a v e. It comes from the Latin word octa, meaning we'll discuss octaves more later. But, in the sound, the science of the sound they're in this note has twice as many vibrations going on as this lower C does right here. If you go up another one. That C again has twice as many vibrations as that C there. So the higher up you go, each octave, twice as many, lower down, it's got half which would mean the lower C I played in mathematical terms has one fourth as many vibrations as the higher C. If this one has half as many as this, half as many as this. But at any rate, I just think it's fascinating, and for those of you who do have any kind of mind to sort of look into that, there's plenty of info out there.

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