Looking back on the blog, I see it is about thirteen months since I took up the tuba. I have to admit that I’ve slacked off on my practise a bit but I think I’ve made decent progress for that period. At a push, I can cover about a two and a half octave span and I’d mark the range from my lowest Bb to a couple octaves higher as fairly safe. Some of the songs the training band started on after Christmas had sections where I’d marked in that I’d need to play an octave lower and, by the time we broke up for the summer, I was able to manage all the notes as written.

I’m still a long way from mastery but I think I’ve moved past the stage of rank beginner too.