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Summary: Make pedal tones on a tuba to create sounds; 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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Questions & AnswersHi everybody Kevin Smith here, TubaLove, and I'm gonna talk about what's called pedal tones on the tuba. Pedal tones as I was talking about them briefly before when I was demonstrating the range of the instrument. Pedal tones basically the lowest note that can be played on any brass instrument given a certain combination of valves in here. So what I, what I did when I was doing the range for example, and pedal tones they're named for the pedals of an organ basically. If you hear an organ play, you've got this really low, rumbly sound that in some cases you can almost feel more than you can hear. I don't know if anybody has ever seen an older Grateful Dead concert when Phil Lesch has been playing the bass. He plays a lot of pedal tones on the electric base. And you can you don't always even hear some of the notes, but you know it's there. You can feel it rumbling in your system. So if I was at this C, that would be called a pedal C. They're not something that you encounter a whole lot when you're playing, but occasionally in sheet music you will see it. I find as I say as a way to just add that kind of sense is almost like some sort of sonic boom getting ready to happen. Pedal tones are absolutely great. They're good for the system.
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