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"Learn To Practice – Step 2: Identify The Tuba Notes"

Before you play your music, go through and identify each note by the fingering numbers and the Low-Middle-High for that fingering. Low Bb is Open Low, F is Open Middle, upper Bb is Open High, etc. (see Low-Middle-High Warmup).

When you identify the tuba notes, you must say them out loud. This musical example would go like this:

Open Low, Open Low, 1-2 Middle, 1 Middle, Open Middle, Open Middle,
1-2 High, 2 High, Open High.

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This will help you learn your tuba fingerings faster and help you memorize them quickly. Your goal is to know the fingerings so well that you don't have to think about them at all. When you see the music, you know them instantly. You will start to get sick of doing this after awhile, but keep doing it anyway.

You will know when you have outgrown it and no longer need to do it. If you still have to think about the fingering numbers or whether it's Low, Middle, or High, then you need to keep doing it. Identify the notes on all of your music until you know them by heart.

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