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This is a wonderful resource for warm ups geared at making great tonal control and projection on a tuba. Some of the exercises are developed from famous tuba parts in the orchestral repertoire, and some have been developed by the great Arnold Jacobs.

This is a wonderful resource for warm ups geared at making great tonal control and projection on a tuba. Some of the exercises are developed from famous tuba parts in the orchestral repertoire, and some have been developed by the great Arnold Jacobs.

This site has everything tuba. You can find instruments for sale, audition dates, and general discussions. This is a great tool to help students find out which schools have tuba openings and what types of scholarships they offer. Also you can help students who are in the market for a used instrument find potential deals.

This page lends itself as a particularly valuable resource, especially for those whose weakness is intonation. In it, you will find philosophies, phrases, analogies, activities, and what the author terms "common threads" for approaching the aforementioned topic with your students. Among the most popular suggestions are singing, practicing characteristic tone quality, and listening down, or back, to the tuba section--all of which can and should be practiced in the early stages of a student's musical development.