tubas are actually the best punk instrument if you play them loud enough. for some reason, though, tuba players seem to be incredibly shy and refuse to rock out. i want a rockin' tuba solo, thought punk might be the right search word...
but, no. as timid as ever. sorry, but that tuba player's just not into it. not feeling it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JFkg4rKv9s
aug 8, 2014
this is, in fact, the correct way to play the tuba - with extreme force. to hell with all the weakling bourgeois players that are afraid of playing too loud. to get this instrument to sound the way it ought to requires every ounce of lung strength and emotional catharsis you can pull out of the innermost depth of your absolute being. a proper tuba performance should require an oxygen tent.
it's a shame the quality is bad. i need a good sample to get the dynamics right; i'm trying to figure out how to make my guitar sound like one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6o966wA2N7Q
aug 8, 2014
i haven't listened to this in a while. 2 & 3 are both quite strong - much more interesting than his operas. somebody said something about vivaldi, but glass is far darker and far more vivid than vivaldi. i get more debussy out of it.
i'm trying to find some good tuba samples to model the dynamics properly on a midi guitar. the kind of tuba playing where somebody is blowing into the thing with the aim to knock the house down. it's harder than you might think. oddly, tuba players seem to be unusually reserved and polite folks, which is rather remarkable given the nature of the instrument they play. perhaps they realize the extent of their power and that leads to an exaggerated sense of responsibility. i suppose that would make them excellent nuclear engineers, but they seem to be rather boring musicians. the tuba players of the world really need to throw caution to the wind and let it all loose. they need to unleash all that power and force...
this kind of jumped in my head for the end section, but it's not quite what i want, either.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zem4amEEzL4
aug 8, 2014
impressionism or expressionism, as though they're opposite terms? that's an anecdote your teacher pulled out of her ass and is asking to determine if you went to class or not. the truth is it's both and the teacher's a dork.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DA40lE83jLo
aug 9, 2014
i'd love to learn how the play the tuba one day, just to get some of those cracked out bass lines down. it's not socially acceptable, though, so i'd basically have to move to a cave.
maybe that's what i'm missing out on in life. should i sell all my possessions to buy a tuba then find a cave and just sit around playing cracked out bass lines?
"dude, where's that weird sound coming from?"
"oh. it's just jess in her cave, playing her cracked out bass lines. you'll get used to it."
"not sure about that...."
maybe i should ease into it by sequencing some cracked out parts, first, before making any drastic decisions. i hope i can get the computer to pull it off convincingly...
now, how am i going to do this? i don't know what tempo it's in, and i need to get the computer to play back something microtonal.
i'm gong to try and riff something out and see how melodyne interprets it. i remember reading something about melodyne being able to handle microtones. i guess i'll have to do a little research on that first.
if i can get the basic tones down, i should be able to fix it up in a scorewriter from there.
if that doesn't work, i could try feeding it into a synth using the midiguitar route, but i don't know if it'll handle the microtones or snap into the nearest proper tone...
actually, i think i have a better chance at getting really raw, cracked out tuba like dynamics by using a pick.
midi guitar's my best choice...