Posted by Chuck on April 02, 2001 at 09:47:25:
In Reply to: full lower (below C) range posted by help on April 02, 2001 at 09:32:28:
Just play down there a lot!
Get Phil Snedecor's "Low Etudes for Tuba" book and also a Rochut etudes book for trombone (transcriptions of vocalises by Bordogni). Play the Rochut book down 2 octaves. This is what Gene Pokorny did to get his low register, from what I understand. Tommy Johnson has all his students do this. Try hard to make music in that register - play dynamics and try to make the phrases nice and smooth. Also, at least once a day play the Rochut etude as loud as possible without losing time. After doing this every day for a couple weeks the sick feeling/ pain in your stomach and the light-headed/ disoriented/ "oh crap I'm gonna pass out and drop my horn" feeling will go away and things will really start to work well.
Chuck "That which does not kill you only makes you stronger" Koontz