How to Play the E Flat Major Scale on the Tuba

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And now, since we're talking flats, and not the "tire" kind of flats (ha! ha!). We're in the E Flat major scale for the tuba, a two octave E Flat major scale, as played by Kevin. Also I'm going to try to show a few of the higher notes in this scale so if I flub one up in the higher register, please don't laugh too hard at me, thank you! They can not hear you they are on the web. "And can you play the octaves for us"? Wow, that was, obviously as you could hear, the edge of the range of the tuba. As high as Kevin could play, there are some notes up there as well that Kevin could play, but how much tubing and the size of the instrument really dictates where the highest highs are and the lowest lows are. And that's why there's so many different kinds of brass instruments. When the orchestra wants to hear some high sounds, you can hear the trumpet, which would carry on the range. And when you want to hear the very low sounds, you have the lower bigger brass instruments that need more air, and send a lower, lower sound.

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