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Welcome to tuba4u tuba4u offers challenging, creative, fun, free music to tubists around the planet. tuba4u has been performed at Texas Lutheran Univ, The Univ of Texas, Texas A&M Univ - Kingsville, New Mexico State Univ, and in Panama, Germany, Austria, England, Colorado, New Mexico, Texas, Michigan... who knows where else? Every piece of music you will find on tuba4u is free. Just click on a piece to bring up a pdf and print it out. No strings attached. At all. Ever. tuba4u.
The 3 levels of music offered here break down into three general categories of performing experience, with some overlapping occurring:
level one - Young
level two - Intermediate
level three - Advanced
Please enjoy tuba4u. This site was created for you. Take your time and check back often for new additions. If you know a tubist who might enjoy tuba4u, please share this site. Feel free to contact me at nkrobin@satx.rr.com.
tuba4u is Keith J. Robinson: believer, husband, father, tubist.
...Peace
The spirit page provides some interesting, possibly thought provoking words related to our instrument and our lives.
This page was last updated: August 26, 2010
Take a look @these great links!
Tons of terrific tuba stuff all in one place! LOTS of links to other great tuba stuff.
PLUS mp3 downloads all over the place. PLUS history, great tubists, all sorts of great
stuff gathered and shared by jazz tuba great: Dave Gannett, "Mr. Bison."
Click already!
Become a member. You'll receive great informative quarterly journals. The ITEA website gives a good look inside past journals and lots of helpful info. You'll know what's happening across your state, across your country,
all around the tuba/euphonium world!
The magazine for the brass musician!
Check it out. Join up. Get involved!
Website for the Galvanized Jazz Band, Art Hovey, tubist. (Trad. jazz!) Art has a great link with lots of tuba information and lots of answers to your tuba questions. Take a look for yourself! Click on Links, scroll down & click on
Art's Tuba-Logic Website. This Old Tuba is a swinging collection (CD) of tunes Art solos on. Very tasty! Buy it - Right now!
Website for low brass composer Ken Friedrich. Check out his work.
You won't be disappointed.
Performer, educator, studio builder! Yutaka has done remarkable things at TAMUK. A smooth welcoming site with many helpful tools.
LINK CITY
www.thesunmagazine.org
The Sun Magazine is full of inspired writing, poetry, and photography. The website has lots of previously published material for you to peruse. You can get a good idea of what The Sun is all about. Subscribe - Your brain and heart will both thank you!
The Sun Magazine is full of inspired writing, poetry, and photography. The website has lots of previously published material for you to peruse. You can get a good idea of what The Sun is all about. Subscribe - Your brain and heart will both thank you!
Gary Slechta, trumpeter, arranger, and all around good guy, offers some GREAT arrangements for brass quintet. Very tasty and extremely creative in his approach to arranging. Hill Country Brass has played lots of his tunes. So much so, in fact, that we have a binder solely dedicated to Gary's arrangements. Check out his tuba feature: Sailor's Hornpipe, a fun showy piece for BQ in
theme and variations form. Think Popeye!
Creativity times 10!!!
Jon Sass is a uniquely dedicated tubist full of spirit and creative energy. His website seems to be an accurate reflection of the artist. If you have not yet bought your copy of his CD Sassified, jump on it. You can listen to several tracks @ his website www.jonsass.com.
This is the blog of a beautiful couple telling of how they have dealt with and are coping with his Alzheimer's diagnosis. Share this with a friend or family member who might be struggling with some of the same issues these two have dealt with, especially a recent diagnosis.
Inspiring stuff!
This comes in handy if you have forgotten or misplaced your metronome. Or if you haven't bought one YET.
Cellist Marcia Sloane has created a tuning/improvising disc filled with cello drones. It's great for instrumentalists & vocalists. At her website she has a 2 minute sample of 12 drones passing through the circle of 5ths. You can click on it and have a great 2 minute tuning workout!
A great concept and a beautiful warm site.
The Art of Drowning
by Billy Collins
(Poetry)
The Mind's Ear
by Bruce Adolphe
(Musical Imagination Exercises)
What to Listen for in the World
by Bruce Adolphe
(Poetic Essays)
The Listening Book
by W.A. Mathieu
(Short Essays/Exercises)
B O O K C L U B
Inspiring & entertaining books
The Art of Racing in the Rain
by Garth Stein
(Novel)
Billy
by Albert French
(Novel)
Up the Down Staircase
by Nel Kaufman
(Novel)
Still Life With Insects
by Brian Kitely
(Novel)
Watership Down
by Richard Adams
(Novel)
Footprints In The Mind
Something To Someone
Meet Me Halfway
A Heart Full Of Love
by Javan
(4 Books of Poems)
Groovey website of the principal
tubist with the
Philadelphia Orchestra.
Fun site. Great pics!
Check out Carol's disc: Cascades
WOW!
Get clickin'!
by R. Michael Sanders
Thoughtful, thought provoking, spirit-filled devotions.You could easily spend a lot of time at this site!
A well designed, well thought out site, featuring an up and coming forward-thinking brass quintet.
This blog tells the amazing story of Carolyn Figlioli, a teacher who sold her belongings and moved to Africa to touch lives: "They love when we take the time to give of ourselves - much more than our money or things."
Jim Shearer's swingin' website! A beautiful site with info about Jim and his new disc: The Memphis Hang. It's a great recording featuring Jim's tuba work and the vocals of Charlie Wood. Wood also wails at the organ and piano. FAV CUTS: 4. "That Note Costs a Dollar" 6. A floating version of "Secret Love" 10. "Goodbye Porkpie Hat" a Monk tune with thick, dark, sad harmonies in the perfectly scored tuba section backgrounds. You can check out the disc through his website, or you can click directly to it HERE.
BUY THIS DISC!
Grace For The Moment
by Max Lucado
(Daily Meditations)
Lord Grizzly
by Frederick Manfred
(Novel)
I Know This Much Is True
by Wally Lamb
(Novel)
The Message
by Eugene H. Peterson
(Contemporary Language Bible)
The Practice of the Presence of God
by Brother Lawrence
(Transformational writing)
tuba4u recently visited banddirector.com thanks to a suggestion from megatubist Deanna Swoboda. Click HERE to read the article which offers some ideas about growing tubists' musical abilities. Thanks Deanna!
Steve offers all sorts of tuba info from
great videos to numerous
links to possible
festivals and workshops. An outstanding tubist with an
outstanding website!
This is the website of the brass quintet in which yours truly plays tuba.
Designed by trombonist/euphoniumist John Morgan, the site very nicely gives visitors a taste of HCB!
(Elsa's Procession to the Cathedral is an excellent backdrop to the slideshow found under photo gallery.)
David Warner
played an outstanding Senior Recital at Texas Lutheran University on April 20th, 2010. His program included music by Bach, Beversdorf, Blazhevich, Vivaldi, and Rasmussen.
On a recent road trip to Alabama, (with a brief detour to New Orleans for lunch @ Court of Two Sisters) I popped Out of Control into the CD player and danced in my seat as we cruised down IH 10. DPT tubist Andy Kochenour drives the band creatively and convincingly through dixified covers of "That's What I Like About You," "Time After Time," "Stairway to Heaven," and "Spiderman."
"Mardi Gras Mambo" practically dares you to keep
from shaking your tail feathers.
You can find some free lead sheets HERE.
They have lots of discs and other stuff available HERE.
tuba4u has just turned 2!!
What'll we do? It's all up to you!!
Have a party? Eat some cake?
1 thing is certain as each year starts:
Music has clearly been
forged in our hearts.
tuba4u has just turned 2!!
Enjoy the music posted 4 u!!
Gilead
by Marilynne Robinson
(Novel)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TUBA4U!! 2 YEARS OLD!! OVER 8000 VISITS!!
THANK YOU FROM TUBA4U!!
Same Kind of Different As Me
by Ron Hall & Denver Moore with Lynn Vincent
(Wow!)
