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Summary: Tuba valves effect the sound of this brass instrument by creating scales and chords; 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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Tips for Using Tuba Valves

Hi everybody, Kevin Smith here, Tuba Love, I'm going to be talking to you now about the valves of the tuba, and their relation to the pitch. Early on I briefly just discussed them and said you know that is how you make the music in combination of your lips against the mouth piece and these valves. What happens is the first valve here, and this is information that I'll be discussing in more detail later. The first valve or any of these valves tend to add tubing to the instrument when you press them down, which means that you're going to get a lower sound. The first valve here lowers any given note with the same embouchure by what's called the whole step or two semi tones. And I'll be discussing that later. So, if I have this note, and I press the first valve down with the exact same position of my mouth. I get. I have now the difference between what was a C and a B or a whole step. The second valve again adds what's called a semi tone or one half step, brings it down a half step. And the third valve will bring it down a minor third which is three semi tones. But anyways, those are the valve that is how they relate to pitch. I have a fourth valve here and that I will be talking about in my next thing.

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