I obviously guessed Moon Over Miami but I just wasn’t getting it from your stylings…
The rest I knew without assistance or having to cheat.
Re: Name That Tune!
Posted: Wed Jul 07, 2021 7:46 pm
by Doc
Three Valves wrote: ↑Wed Jul 07, 2021 5:42 pm
I obviously guessed Moon Over Miami but I just wasn’t getting it from your stylings…
That’s part of the fun. Even if the stylings aren’t good enough to be convincing. And I like doing things differently. Sometimes for fun. Sometimes just to be different. LOL
The stylings in my head:
Re: Name That Tune!
Posted: Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:03 pm
by Beyond16
Kids today waste their time on phones and social media. When I was little, I did important stuff like watch I dream of Jeanie.
I have been playing tuba for 106 days now. Before that I was trying to play cornet and never made it past a couple of scales. I put off (re) learning to read music until even more recently. Cornet wears out my lips so quickly I was never able to make progress. My lips can last a while on tuba. I did play french horn in the 1970's a couple of years in high school.
I was shocked to see you playing some of the same tunes I play. Did you figure those out by ear? Amazing. I found a used copy of "The TV Fake Book". Its music is written in the key of C, so my tunes are off by a whole step on my B flat YBB-104.
All my practice lately is going through a rotation of these old tunes. The good thing about TV theme songs is that I have heard them 1000's of times and know immediately if a get a note wrong.
Other than bad rhythm and tempo, poor tone, lack of dynamic control, fingering mistakes and bad articulation, I'm making progress. Here are some I recorded this week:
Microphone is Movo VXR10-PRO, cheap but very good for $50. I boosted the base a little to compensate to its lacking there. The microphone is right there at the bell, because my house echoes like a parking garage. I wear ear muffs to block the echo while playing.
(edit: fixed the links!)
Re: Name That Tune!
Posted: Mon Sep 20, 2021 10:18 am
by Doc
Beyond16 wrote: ↑Sat Sep 18, 2021 8:03 pm
Kids today waste their time on phones and social media. When I was little, I did important stuff like watch I dream of Jeanie.
I have been playing tuba for 106 days now. Before that I was trying to play cornet and never made it past a couple of scales. I put off (re) learning to read music until even more recently. Cornet wears out my lips so quickly I was never able to make progress. My lips can last a while on tuba. I did play french horn in the 1970's a couple of years in high school.
I was shocked to see you playing some of the same tunes I play. Did you figure those out by ear? Amazing. I found a used copy of "The TV Fake Book". Its music is written in the key of C, so my tunes are off by a whole step on my B flat YBB-104.
All my practice lately is going through a rotation of these old tunes. The good thing about TV theme songs is that I have heard them 1000's of times and know immediately if a get a note wrong.
Other than bad rhythm and tempo, poor tone, lack of dynamic control, fingering mistakes and bad articulation, I'm making progress. Here are some I recorded this week:
Microphone is Movo VXR10-PRO, cheap but very good for $50. I boosted the base a little to compensate to its lacking there. The microphone is right there at the bell, because my house echoes like a parking garage. I wear ear muffs to block the echo while playing.
(edit: fixed the links!)
COOL! That's 106 days of playing? You are rockin' it! Thanks for sharing.
Yes. I played all those by ear. I've been doing that since I was a kid. (If you're interested, I did a 7 video series teach/preach/rant about playing tunes, playing by ear, etc. HERE. All parts played by ear, of course. Arrangements are done on the fly by ear, no paper.) The cool thing about TV themes of old is that they were actual tunes/melodies, and many were very singable and memorable. (Jingles, too!) Those themes are excellent fodder for melodic playing, and they make for fun playing at home!
I hear you on the mic vs. room thing. You just have to keep trying to find what works for you, your equipment, and your room. And don't worry about mistakes. You're not posting your debut at Carnegie Hall, so there's no pressure here. Most of my stuff I post is clearly not perfect, but I don't have the time to do multiple takes on everything to achieve some semblance of perfection. I have to be a one-take wonder with it most of the time. I'm lucky to have time to post anything at all (and I sometimes question whether I should even be posting). I just use the John Daly approach: Grip it and rip it. And just enjoy it for what it is.
Re: Name That Tune!
Posted: Tue Sep 21, 2021 8:20 pm
by Beyond16
I have been watching your videos. They are very good in every way. I suppose I could sound out a tune one note at a time and eventually learn it, but that would be a very slow process for me.
When I was trying to learn trumpet, I kept putting off learning to read music due to memories of it being difficult in the 70's. With tuba, I finally felt comfortable enough to move beyond scales and try to read music. In the 1970's, I read treble clef (french horn). I still recognized some of the notes, so I stuck with treble clef, knowing it's non-standard for tuba. I worked through a beginner band book from a vintage trumpet I bought.
The good thing about going from B flat trumpet to B flat tuba is that trumpet sheet music can be played on tuba with exactly the the same fingerings, just two octaves lower. The benefit of tuba for me is that my lips never tire, at least compared to trumpet. I could never play long enough on trumpet to get anywhere.
At this point I am 100% Tubby the Tuba mode. Other than a couple of scales, everything I play is a well known (to old people) tune.
