Gandalfe,
I estimate that about 85% of the tuba part can be easily played on bass trombone. There's an 8-bar unison tuba & bass soli that goes lower than the usual range for bass trombone -- and has a dreaded low B natural. It's possible that we could work around that by having just the bass play the moving lines in that passage and the bass trombone could play Bb trombone pedal points where there are sustained notes below low C in the tuba/bass soli. There are tuba trills in several places. I'm thinking that they could be played as lip trills on bass trombone.
The best thing for the viola part is for me to rewrite it for guitar. It would then be easy to play on that axe.
If you'd like to give the chart a try, I'll write the viola part for guitar. Also, I'd need to mail the score & parts to you as the parts are on larger than letter size paper (custom size) and I'd have a problem scanning them into PDFs.
Roger
I estimate that about 85% of the tuba part can be easily played on bass trombone. There's an 8-bar unison tuba & bass soli that goes lower than the usual range for bass trombone -- and has a dreaded low B natural. It's possible that we could work around that by having just the bass play the moving lines in that passage and the bass trombone could play Bb trombone pedal points where there are sustained notes below low C in the tuba/bass soli. There are tuba trills in several places. I'm thinking that they could be played as lip trills on bass trombone.
The best thing for the viola part is for me to rewrite it for guitar. It would then be easy to play on that axe.
If you'd like to give the chart a try, I'll write the viola part for guitar. Also, I'd need to mail the score & parts to you as the parts are on larger than letter size paper (custom size) and I'd have a problem scanning them into PDFs.
Roger