In case people dont realise, tubas sound a lot clearer when you hear them in person, recordings generally dont pick up the low bassy sound of the tuba or sousaphone very well, and the reason they sound so gritty and kind of "kazoo"ey is because of that, that's not to take away though that sousaphones generally sound worse than concert tubas
sousaphones are also generally designed to be louder and give a powerful brassy feel whereas concert tubas give the low bassy mellow sound, they dont necessarily sound worse, just different from concert tubas.
Sousaphones sound more piercing because the bell of the instrument faces forward, unlike the tuba and other members of the tuba family such as the euphonium, which the bell faces upward. With the sousaphone, the sound is going in a different direction than that of the tuba.
you really need good speakers or headphones to capture the awesomeness of the tuba. I just got a new pair of headphones today and it makes this song rock!! Not like doesn't already!
gumball nightmare well right now we are doing valiance, rockin rondeu and my favorite cocles and mussels because it a tuba,bassoon,bari sax and bass clarinet
Well basic counting says that there are only nineteen tubas. So that's a damn sexy $143,000 but there is tax. Which in Auburn in 9% So that's a damn sexy, $155,780!
Haha sike, try 6-12 hours a day for 60-80 days with half that section size and sound worlds better. The sousa section couldnt even get in time with each other.
There was me and 2 guys in my band that played sousaphone and I miss it so much I’m about to graduate and I don’t know what I’m going to do without marching and playing sousaphone
I marched in the Auburn Band 1978-83 and the drum line(US) and the tuba section always had a rivalry going into the stadium. We stood down on the sidelines and played as the band marched into the stands. Well, the tuba section also stood on the sideline and made up dance moves (if you want to call them that) to our music. The crowd loved the drum line and tolerated the tuba section. Ha! Anyway, War Eagle guys.Glad to see the tradition continue. Hopefully the 2013 season will be a good one!
I've only played sousaphone once, and that was for a marching festival in 7th grade, with that many tubas, it would've been really cool to see this in person because sousaphones are loud by themselves.
@TrueTrombone352 Actually, yes. The Baritone has a bell that points outward, has valves on the front, facing outward like the bell, and usually has three valves. The Euphonium, however, has a bell that is simular to a tuba's, pointing straight up, like a raincatcher, as well as it usually has four or five valves. The Euphonium is almost literally a small tuba.
Nicoboi2 Dark Astro I come from from a HS band that plays this song along with a DL cadence and we just found out about that La calavera a few months ago and it’s crazy lol
I'm a trumpetist (universal overlord), math is beneath me. $150,000 is nothing to me! But in that damn sexy of a form, it is a formidable force in the universe!
Actual there are several different types of tuba. Sousaphones are the ones blowing their brains out above. "Contras" (contrabass Tuba) is the marching sholder tuba that Can be a conveted to a Concert tuba. a marching tuba is most commonly assosiated with a Bell frount Concert horn Used befor Sousaphones and Contras were Created. Basicly there are alot of tubas used for many Different reasons, Such as the Lusophone.
@TeamSolidStarCraft There is a marching baritone as well. Drum Corps used both. A marching baritone is smaller than the marching euphonium. But typically in high schools they are using euphonium.
My band does also (im one) and we play sonic boom and we are gonna play this one. It is totally possible to play these songs in a small band with some loud Sousas
Yeah that's a good sized band. You guys should do some sousa songs. They are super fun and you could even get the music for the whole band if you wanted
lol sadly our band director refuses to do pep band in class. He spends class time on Marching band until the season ends and then we play concert music to practice for concert festival.
Oh my band has two different classes, one for advanced players and the other for less advanced players. I'm in the advanced class and we work on solely concert music now while the other class works on marching
@@hokagecutt72 you also gotta think, this was posted in 2008. Sound quality of video cameras/phones back then were pretty garbage. Plus, tubas don't sound fantastic on recordings even now. So it might've sounded fantastic in person
Depends also if the play different notes ,then you can get summation and differenceiationon . say 2 horns play an open fifth ( relates like 2 to 3) then one can hear beat frequencies like nr 5 and the fundamental nr 1. Lets say in notes they are playing C and G,one will hear also(weaker) the E above and the Fundamental C. Its a reason why all the instruments should be in tune. Its very noticable with flutes.
KAME HAMEHA I agree with that guy, contras/marching tubas sound a lot better and can get a clearer tone than a sousa if you haven't heard any DCI corps use them, you're missing out
Owen Shapley But still, its not that bad. Its probably only the quality of the video. I heard my high school's marching band play sousaphones, and they had a really good tone quality. Brass instruments usually sound a little weird in videos, unless u use pro equipments.
@DarkVengeance0938 No, actually, a contra-bass bugle, commonly known as just a Contra, is the marching tuba, sousaphones are a variant of the Helicon invented in the 1920's by John Phillip Sousa.
@TeamSolidStarCraft I started out on trombone, along with three of my buddies, one of my buddies and I moved to different low brass instruments, I went to Euph. and my buddy went to tuba, he loves it to this day
if the sound of 1 tuba is 100% then 2 Tubas are together 110% ,3 Tubas are 111% . To amass instruments doesn't produce loudness but shimmering golden sound, which you could hear in long notes.
