Scale sheets

Tuba chromatic scale

The chromatic scale for tuba, one octave up and back down, with the valve fingering under every note.
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Fingerings for a non-compensating BB♭ tuba. Compensating tubas and tubas in other keys finger differently.

Under each note, filled circles are the valves to press, 1st valve on the left. The chromatic scale uses flats both going up and coming down.

Concert B♭ chromatic

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44B♭BCD♭DE♭EFG♭GA♭AB♭AA♭GG♭FEE♭DD♭CBB♭
About scale sheets

Reading the chromatic scale

The chromatic scale plays every half step, up and back down. This sheet spells it with flats both ways and has no key signature, so every accidental is written and lasts until the barline. Concert B♭ is the usual starting note; pick another above.

Practicing scales

Use a metronome. Start slow enough to play every note clean and in tune, and speed up only once you can play the scale twice in a row without a mistake. Say or think the note names as you play, and learn the valve fingerings with them, so both are automatic by the time the scale is fast.

Practice them

Play each scale up and back down in the Brass Trainer: pick tuba, then Scales. It checks every fingering, and you can play into your microphone.