I'm always amazed at their ability to play in sync. In all the sousas I see that play like this, there's almost no discernable beat or tempo to follow consistently, it really is incredible
yogi bear If that were the case, we musicians often times wouldn't get as much playtime unless the tuba or sousaphone was an instrument you could play well. This coming from a veteran trombone player.
All 15 of the Sousa’s showed up to a basketball game that nobody wanted to go to so the band consisted of 15 tubas, 1baritone, 2 trombones, 2 trumpets and a 3rd base being a tuba player it was fun not having woodwinds also I let my drum major who plays the horn play my tuba during a song I will not ever do that again
As an 1st trombone player in my younger days, I respect the hell out of my sousaphone, tuba, and euphonium brothers and sisters. We've been starting to need more and more of the big guns to fight in the musical wars these days. Seeing a good fight like this between sousaphones is rare, but the hype is like no other.
I’ve been playing Tuba for 5 years now and blaring is absolutely something you can get to sound good in certain songs. I had a few songs this year in concert band where I was breaking the note for effect and the band director loved it
What does it mean to break the note? My son plays tuba for concert and Sousaphone for marching season, this may be something he could do. If anything play around and have fun with it.
@@ashley1583 it’s where you use more air pressure than what can go through the horn at a time. Making a sharp “truck horn” effect. If you look into “blatting” you can find some good ways to explain it. Currently typing this after a comp lol.
TheDeadeye Warrior I always will harbor a slight resentment of fiberglass sousas because there is a guy in the upcoming freshmans who is a total ass to everyone and he has to play a fiber glass
+Makenna Jolley Lol we have 15 in my marching band, but then again we were the florida state championships last year. But these players are REALLY good.
I love how I listened to this exact same video more than 4 years ago. Before my 6th grade year ended. Because I was going to switch from baritone to tuba in middle school. And I was just interested on what it’d be like. And man I was intrigued so much by the way they played these tubas. This video literally led to so much success through my Middle/Highschool band career. Well not career.. but ya know. But… that second song bro!! I learned how to play after I started with tuba all those years ago. Still haven’t stopped playing it, here I am in 11th grade. And still in marching band, AND a section leader of 2 underclassmen below me. In conclusion… this video helped me love the tuba more than I did back then… Btw loved when the second band played the first time. That’s the song I learned to play.(@ 2:51)Thanks for your time 🧍🏼👌🏻
NCCU's last time was just the sexiest part of the battle. I'm in my school's jazz band, and we're playing Superstition too. They def get my vote for clarity and overall sound quality. Very talented tuba players over there.
2024 and I watch this battle FAITHFULLY 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 they don't have battle like this no more 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️. Folks saying this trash is crazy to me 😂😂😂 I could just imagine their sousaphone battles that's if their school even have one
Marching Sousa is actually quite easy after your first few months of pain. It really doesn't feel cool at all due to the lack of a real horns up. Contras where it's at :)
I played concert tuba and sousaphone for marching band events… brings a tear to my eye being the heartbeat in all music. Blaring is our way for marching band to keep in step also so we all March in beat
Ahhhhhhhh yea!!!! ST AUG!!!! From Class of 1988!!! Glad to see the Band grow and them Basses!!!! My Instrument when I was there.Tell Dr Jefferies I said Wassup!!! FALCON Priiiiiide!!!
No you can't feel sousas but you can feel drums if you are close enough, im sure you could feel any brass instrument if you had enough good players right next you
One of these things is not like the others, One of these things just doesn't belong, Can you tell which thing is not like the others By the time I finish my song?
St Augustine WAY BETTER! They actaully showed us that tuba players can play some ACTUAL music! They really gave it some UMPH and played some difficult and fun pieces. GO TUBA PLAYERS!!
***** I'm a tuba player myself and I choose not to overly stretch peoples brain capacities...they are only ever going to understand that it's a tuba lol...I used to make a fuss but I really don't care anymore. IIIIIII know it's a sousaphone or a tuba...that's what matters lol.
Started in sixth grade with an Eb that, if it had slipped off my chair, would have taken me with it, requiring EMTs with torches to extricate my skinny little body. Sousaphone in high school; some scholarship money to hold up the low end for four years at Westminster in Salt Lake City. Golly that was 57 years ago! I am loving reliving some of that as I watch these cats. Forever we are part of the brothersisterhood.
Nah. I'm a sousaphone/tuba player, your lips just feel numb for a little bit, and then it goes away. When you play the tuba for a while, you get use to it
I'm watching this while cleaning up an Eb helicon made in ~1923... I can't decide which side I like more. I think the grey shirts were tighter as a section, but I liked the effort from the maroon, and felt their vibe a bit more. Either way; this made me want to be that age again, and be in such a group. I was the only tuba player for many many highshool band events who showed. No shame on either side in this video. Everyone Showed Up.
I played low brass for years. In a pep band one year I played so hard my lips split. When I opened my spit valve a ton of blood came out. It was painful after it was over, but while playing I paid no mind to it and didn't miss a beat. No pun intended
I think that some of y’all saying that this is “blaring” and “no control” forget that these two things are not mutually exclusive. You can have a bad TONE, but still be able to control so that you don’t have waves in your sound. Like wise, you can have GOOD tone, but with terrible control, it doesn’t amount to anything. You have to have the perfect balance of both to be able to play like this, and people downplaying this style of playing make me really mad because they simply don’t understand this. When you’re in marching band, this is EXACTLY the sound you should be going for, as long as you don’t cover up the lead parts. Nuff said!
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All y'all complaining about them "blaring". That's literally what these competitions are meant for. Blaring tubas having at it.
jck1794 ya and its awesome
jck1794 they are not blaring they are blating.
I don’t consider it as blaring nor blasting, I consider blasting “non-controllable”. These guys can control it very well, and I like it!
@@hamada3696 controlled blast is best blast.
Well only if they aren't half a step or more out of tune
i'm pretty sure the only reason why we all watched this is because we either play or find the tuba as a interresting horn
Very true
I dont and found this video to be awesome. at least not before this video. might have sparked an interest now though.
subbed.
Keyshaun Butler Tuba player right HERE! GO TUBAS!
Jonathan Smith who do you play for
SOUSAPHONE, NOT TUBA
Sousaphones are the only brass instrument that sound good with blaring
All of them sound good if you can do it well.
John Doe | trombone??
Trumpet??
Doc | trumpet is debatable, it’s really hard to make it sound good, especially a whole section of them
@@dariusxxo unless they all there are 3-4 parts with a band with 30-40 trumpets, then that would sound great.
Sousaphone holds glory. You can’t be a Tuba/sousaphone player and not be passionate.
every Instruments in fact
God how I wish this were true 😭 although I will say that at least most of them are pretty passionate
Amen
I'm always amazed at their ability to play in sync. In all the sousas I see that play like this, there's almost no discernable beat or tempo to follow consistently, it really is incredible
Practice man you might have whole sections dedicated to learning fanfares and the tempo
Ah it's great to be a sousaphone player!
ah it's feels glorious to be able to be heard whilst in band you get drowned out, as a sousa i can be free
Contra player right here
+MrShirye you suck
***** C'mon, contra is better (you know, the stuff they use in dci)
+Burdurk I have to agree. I wish my band used the contra honestly
I know blaring has a bad rap, but it sounds amazing if has pure power behind it. I believe you should only do it on huge hits and hype pep tunes.
YES, THANK YOU! I have been saying that for ever.
Yeah, buts terrible technique. It's cool if you're if you're a pro but it can ruin begginers/ nonpro players playing ability
Or parades!
This sounds like dookie
all pep bands should just be 15 tubas
yogi bear If that were the case, we musicians often times wouldn't get as much playtime unless the tuba or sousaphone was an instrument you could play well. This coming from a veteran trombone player.
trombone squad
All 15 of the Sousa’s showed up to a basketball game that nobody wanted to go to so the band consisted of 15 tubas, 1baritone, 2 trombones, 2 trumpets and a 3rd base being a tuba player it was fun not having woodwinds also I let my drum major who plays the horn play my tuba during a song I will not ever do that again
TUBA SQAUD
Seven nation army would never end . . .
Shoutout to the lone white wolf of the pack
😂😂😂
The Chuckster. deadd😂😭😭
The Chuckster That's me except I'm not white I'm female
there are 3 white guys
@@jermiachrist2049 its Jason borne. [Look at who I'm replying to 🤣]
As an 1st trombone player in my younger days, I respect the hell out of my sousaphone, tuba, and euphonium brothers and sisters. We've been starting to need more and more of the big guns to fight in the musical wars these days. Seeing a good fight like this between sousaphones is rare, but the hype is like no other.
We need more tubas! I’m tired of being the only tuba player!
Low brass together, strong
Tuba power. Nuff said.
Seth Fancher AYE LADDIE! GO TUBAS!
Seth Fancher SOUSAPHONES!!!!!!!!!
Low brass shall rise against our high brass opressors
R.A.K YT I’m kinda the outcast since I play trombone but at my school the low brass has always been the strongest part of our band.
I’ve been playing Tuba for 5 years now and blaring is absolutely something you can get to sound good in certain songs. I had a few songs this year in concert band where I was breaking the note for effect and the band director loved it
What does it mean to break the note? My son plays tuba for concert and Sousaphone for marching season, this may be something he could do. If anything play around and have fun with it.
@@ashley1583 it’s where you use more air pressure than what can go through the horn at a time. Making a sharp “truck horn” effect. If you look into “blatting” you can find some good ways to explain it. Currently typing this after a comp lol.
This sounds like they're having a massively good time !
Is it even a competition ?
Ah... the sousaphones that use so much air they sound like ten trombones a piece. Fantastic.
Most of the comments are from tuba players (like me) so technically there are more than a hundred tubas in one place on the internet
Watched this video long ago the music from the first group as been stuck in my head for years. Do you have the name of the song if there is one
theres a tuba warriors discord
these sound way better than the fiberglass sousaphones my school has
+Nate Manning wow are you a four year old to make that joke.
(JK But that is funny
TheDeadeye Warrior I always will harbor a slight resentment of fiberglass sousas because there is a guy in the upcoming freshmans who is a total ass to everyone and he has to play a fiber glass
oh lol
+Nate Manning you were right the first time , fiber glass will never give a true brass sound , they are all trash
+kyle snipes I forgot I wrote this comment
Blasting is the best no matter what people say. It fills you up with energy
Dat_guy *playing as loud as you can while still playing with great quality is the best not blasting
This is why college bands sounds a mess, tone quality is better than blasting most of the time unless you wanna make a band sound bad
I've been watching this for the last 6 years, I regret nothing
Great battle from both sides!
Anyone got a list of all the fanfares played?
Been watching this for 8 years, worth it
I’m a trumpet and you guys are amazing!!
Oh my god! They played sir duke! That’s amazing...and they nailed that instrumental break, too.
I love the conducting shows the form of the music while still giving them a tempo
FIRE!
Outstanding talent. Nothing like HBCU Tuba section. Love it
I wanna know all of the songs that these played
You know I find it funny that I've seen this video in the 9th grade and you're one of the comments lmao
2019 anyone?
Here bro
Bleh Blah me
October gang
Bleh Blah me
Yup
4:45 The bass was so good that they made it rain XD
I'm loving that excerpt of 'Creep' by TLC...made me smile so big.
Mystery Pizza yesss and the John Legend right before that “When I used to love you”
I have never seen that many sousaphones in one place in my life
+Makenna Jolley Lol we have 15 in my marching band, but then again we were the florida state championships last year. But these players are REALLY good.
dang we have 4 and we are still a 4a band
+Ryan M. who are you guys i from timber creek we got 3 last year
+chris lee we all ways got 1 first that was your first time ever geting 3 we where so sad!!!
+chris lee your first time sorry
Man watching this makes miss playing tuba so bad....1st chair tuba player right here baby...!!!!!
Big Country Reviews I feel you dude🤘🏻
Sumbody please tell me the name of that second fanfare by nccu. Homeboy was sangin on dat tuba
Its an original only way to find out is marching at NCCU
damn quality makes it sound like a sax
Thats because they have some clean watts
Look, all of those sousaphones are pretty brand-new looking. Also you must've not been in band long; because it's totally distinguishable to me.
Low register sounds a bit like a bass sax
Four years inside a Sousaphone. Two of those alone (and filling it as a string bass in stage band). Great memories.
I gotta switch from baritone to this.
+TheEnderGuy I already have HAHAHAHAHAHA!
yes!!! tuba is the best!!!
It's a Sousaphone...
+TheEnderGuy hey smart one!!! a sousaphone is a tuba, a marching tuba. research shit before you go saying shit!
+Matthew Lynn talk mad shut bro, it's a sousaphone
2020 watching. Now this video used for music lessons. So good to hear these instrument blend together 😍
that moment when you're the only girl sousaphone in the comment section
I'm here😎😎😎
I'm here😎😎😎
I'm here
Ur not alone
Ur not alone
I love how I listened to this exact same video more than 4 years ago. Before my 6th grade year ended. Because I was going to switch from baritone to tuba in middle school. And I was just interested on what it’d be like. And man I was intrigued so much by the way they played these tubas. This video literally led to so much success through my Middle/Highschool band career. Well not career.. but ya know. But… that second song bro!! I learned how to play after I started with tuba all those years ago. Still haven’t stopped playing it, here I am in 11th grade. And still in marching band, AND a section leader of 2 underclassmen below me. In conclusion… this video helped me love the tuba more than I did back then… Btw loved when the second band played the first time. That’s the song I learned to play.(@ 2:51)Thanks for your time 🧍🏼👌🏻
NCCU's last time was just the sexiest part of the battle. I'm in my school's jazz band, and we're playing Superstition too. They def get my vote for clarity and overall sound quality. Very talented tuba players over there.
5 years and I'm still amazed
My god the sound from these guys is amazing
2024 and I watch this battle FAITHFULLY 🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾 they don't have battle like this no more 🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️. Folks saying this trash is crazy to me 😂😂😂 I could just imagine their sousaphone battles that's if their school even have one
Yessir
SAU was VERY dirty yet very technical. NCCU was cleaner yet more simple. I call it a draw. If not a slight edge to SAU
never give the slight edge to the ensemble that sounds the worse...
dgp3tuba that's your opinion
Krystopher Washington thats musical sense mix with common sense. If you sound bad, you lose.
dgp3tuba They don't even sound bad so..... I honestly call it a draw
Krystopher Washington And it is ok for you to feel that way. As a music major with a concentration in Tuba performance, I say otherwise.
I am impressed. They are all very talented. They have a very good tone quality.
Ugh I'm first year marching on Sousa and I'm in 7th grade, and I'm the only sousa
Good luck lol
Marching Sousa is actually quite easy after your first few months of pain. It really doesn't feel cool at all due to the lack of a real horns up. Contras where it's at :)
Chillz youre marching in 7th grade?
Chillz hey I started marching band in 7th grade too. And I play sousaphone! I'm in eighth grade.
Free game to act a complete ass g long tones lip slurs and crunches
Goodness I thoroughly enjoyed this! I don't know what I thought I'd hear but damm.
Every freaking sousaphone player is playing at this pep rally
Wish I had these many tubas in my section. Got three and we been playin the same tuba jams forever. We need more
Then that one tuba player from Canadian brass shows up and plays flight of the bumblebees..... ON A GODDAMN TUBA!!!!
or the monzoli brass
🤣
I'm primarily a trumpet/French horn player but I had the privilege of marching with the tuba one year and I loved it!
I was their had fun my band battled Hillside. ST.Aug sounded great
Everybody wondering what the song is at 2:30 it’s Welcome Home by Coheed and Cambria
They kinda chopped it up a bit, it’s got a bit of the intro, a piece of the breakdown/solo part, and the vocal part of the first line.
I miss my Tuba Gang!!!! Where we at?!!! #BassGang
#BassGang
I played concert tuba and sousaphone for marching band events… brings a tear to my eye being the heartbeat in all music. Blaring is our way for marching band to keep in step also so we all March in beat
that one white dude in the right corner lol
Dude, there are 3 right guys
Thats Eminem
Your point?
Ahhhhhhhh yea!!!! ST AUG!!!! From Class of 1988!!! Glad to see the Band grow and them Basses!!!! My Instrument when I was there.Tell Dr Jefferies I said Wassup!!! FALCON Priiiiiide!!!
i'm in Australia we have nothing like this here. i would sure love to hear it for real. I'm guessing it is loud.. can you feel it?
I play this instrument and only people with good lungs can play like that
No you can't feel sousas but you can feel drums if you are close enough, im sure you could feel any brass instrument if you had enough good players right next you
SAU's tuba line has half of my high-school tuba line that I'm in charge of! Still love hearing these amazing musicians.
that one white guy tho
XD LOL IKR
One of these things is not like the others,
One of these things just doesn't belong,
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
By the time I finish my song?
All i see is people and brass!~~~~~~!
@@relentlessmadman I played trumpet my son trombone. Low brass kicks ass
This made my night!!
2:26 what song?
I’m here cause I love the sousaphone and would love to learn to play one. This is an awesome video!
Good, sousaphones and tubas are the best brass instrument
St Augustine WAY BETTER! They actaully showed us that tuba players can play some ACTUAL music! They really gave it some UMPH and played some difficult and fun pieces. GO TUBA PLAYERS!!
***** lmao😂😂 some people just don't understand
Krystopher Washington so true.
*****
I'm a tuba player myself and I choose not to overly stretch peoples brain capacities...they are only ever going to understand that it's a tuba lol...I used to make a fuss but I really don't care anymore. IIIIIII know it's a sousaphone or a tuba...that's what matters lol.
+Jonathan Smith same
I thought it was a fat trumpet
Started in sixth grade with an Eb that, if it had slipped off my chair, would have taken me with it, requiring EMTs with torches to extricate my skinny little body. Sousaphone in high school; some scholarship money to hold up the low end for four years at Westminster in Salt Lake City. Golly that was 57 years ago! I am loving reliving some of that as I watch these cats. Forever we are part of the brothersisterhood.
Nccu's tubas were alot cleaner in some fanfares, but my vote goes to St. Aug for bringing that power
This is literally my goal for me and the other tubas in my school!
I feel sorry for their lips thats gotta hurt
Nah. I'm a sousaphone/tuba player, your lips just feel numb for a little bit, and then it goes away. When you play the tuba for a while, you get use to it
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Hannah Muhleman that's so true
it does not hurt lips because I would no because I play trombone
BatPanda more like their whole face
First song name is bandz marching by j. harden
How'd I get from drum corps and brass choir music to here? I am terribly confused right now
You shouldn't be that confused. They all fall in the category of music, eh?
No. There's music then there's noise. This, I call noise, not very pleasant to the ears :p
Jake Kraynik Hmmm.That's your opinion I guess.
I got here from a video of the OSU Band doing Script Ohio.
+BaritoneLife no its' not an opinion. it's a fact. it's just noise
Both did amazing I cant choose a side...Respect to them cause they sound great!
That director was funny but on point! 😂😂
Is sousaphone a suitable instrument for my five year old daughter to learn ?
With this kinda strength, ALL LOW BRASS AND HORNS UNITE!!!
Great stuff! Loved it
Notes for drunken love plz 😩🙌🏽
Elijah Thomas A natural, B flat, C, D flat, E flat and the rest idk
To this Day the greatest Tuba Battle of ALL TIME!
just plain sick bros.
these are my brothers in brass. they are playing the songs of my people.
0:11 I love that song is there a name for it ?
I have watched this so much and I'm a saxophone player but this sounds really good also ya dont want to battle me
I play sousaphone. I want to battle with you
I really enjoy how these sounds
Does anyone know the name of the song at 0:39?
Great video keep up thee good work
How do you get that tone?!
Awesome sauce by the team in the right with no conductor. HooAhh!
How can those bass instrument produce baritone sounds? 🤔
Air and lungs that's it 💀
Goosebumps! Love this!
Didja have fun? I hope so, cause this was fun to watch.
Finally i meet with my people
NCCU won cause where cleaner and the sound as one
I'm watching this while cleaning up an Eb helicon made in ~1923... I can't decide which side I like more. I think the grey shirts were tighter as a section, but I liked the effort from the maroon, and felt their vibe a bit more.
Either way; this made me want to be that age again, and be in such a group. I was the only tuba player for many many highshool band events who showed.
No shame on either side in this video. Everyone Showed Up.
6:11 sounds do so nice u gotta stop composing jus to dance
Module bring us here right?
it concerns me how they all sound like bari's a little (i want them in my band)
I have seen this dam video so many times and still can't pick the dam winner of this battle...
Whoever was in the grey shirts won and it ain't even close lmao
I played low brass for years. In a pep band one year I played so hard my lips split. When I opened my spit valve a ton of blood came out. It was painful after it was over, but while playing I paid no mind to it and didn't miss a beat. No pun intended
6:35 Had me..."Cracking Up"....literally..
I think that some of y’all saying that this is “blaring” and “no control” forget that these two things are not mutually exclusive. You can have a bad TONE, but still be able to control so that you don’t have waves in your sound. Like wise, you can have GOOD tone, but with terrible control, it doesn’t amount to anything. You have to have the perfect balance of both to be able to play like this, and people downplaying this style of playing make me really mad because they simply don’t understand this. When you’re in marching band, this is EXACTLY the sound you should be going for, as long as you don’t cover up the lead parts. Nuff said!
Why do they sound like kazzos?
The quality of the audio...
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@@mrk-bz3yv no, it’s the tubas blasting
Great video!