Long Tone Duets for Tubas by Matt Hightower is appropriate for high school through professional tuba players.

Long Tone Duets for Tubas provides an opportunity to play long tones together, learning to blend tone quality, balance dynamics, and play in tune. A variety of patterns has been provided, including duets for each major and minor key, duets featuring scales and harmonies, duets devoted to technique and repertoire, and duets for euphonium and tuba. To ensure a variety of long tone playing in your daily practicing, play a duet from each category every day.

Students will learn by emulating their teachers when playing Long Tone Duets. It’s the perfect opportunity to scrutinize and improve tone, intonation, and articulation because there is no complicated rhythmic activity to distract from these issues.

“’Long Tone Duets for Tubas’ is a wonderful offering for tuba players of all levels. This supplementary material prioritizes and reinforces sound, intonation, breathing, flexibility, dynamics, comfort in all twelve keys, and ear training. It is an extensive collection that can be paired with any piece of repertoire (large ensemble, chamber, solo) to aid in practice and performance. I am excited to share these fantastic duets with my tuba students!” - Dr. William Sutton, Assistant Professor of Music, Northwest Missouri State University

72 pages, spiral bound to lay flat on the music stand

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