The Heavy Is A Spai It's not all about the valve oil, with these instruments I've had problems with stuck valves just by pressing on them at a bad/weird angle.
One of my friends tried a contra and said visibility is ass, that why if you noticed they face inward when they aren’t directly in front of the drum major
Fausto you also point your bell at the press box because typically some judges are up there **i play tuba in my school's marching band and until now i didn't realize that can also help you see the drum major better oof**
lets take a moment to appreciate his work, he has to run around with whats basically a minifridge in terms of weight and he has to hold it with just his two hands. what a legend
Having wanted to be a contra player for DCI, the amount of work contra players do for shows is crazy. Sure trumpets and mellos have crazy fast playing but contras do all the same movements with instruments 10x the size.
our band just switched from 20j's to 45lb contras (yamaha, which people say is the heaviest) and before we got them i saw this and was like why is he breathing so hard? but NOW I UNDERSTAND!!!!
David Luna damn bro. Good luck. I just switched to tuba last year, but the leader was unbearable so I'm heading back to trumpet (main instrument). But lmao. I just saw a comment saying Yamaha contrast were the lightest weighing in at 18 pounds😂😂 like nahhhhh
Turkey Thug Airsoft they are a variation of tuba, particularly designed for DCI/march, people call them contras. They are an alternative to sousaphones in marching band
stands in front of camera man. *camera man instantly decides because it is a tuba he should put his camera in it to make sure his cat or dog didnt jump in again so he can watch over the video to get mad at his pets* boi that was long
Lukas Karle well the blue coats are from Ohio and I don't know where they're performing in this so I'll go with Ohio, so at this time of year it was probably about 29C, but if they were somewhere really warm and south it could definitely be that warm, it's probably somewhere in between.
i know this is a year old, but im in the process of joining dci, and ive watched a few rehershals, the tubas always go to their horns down, then hornline brings horns up, its how it works, and the DM points to them and says "tuba", thats their signal, brass staff and drum majors alike do it, so, its a tuba.
Ryan Witko if u are seeing this remember to keep your fingers like an arch on the valves. dont lay them flat on the valves, this helps with pressing notes faster.
