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Alright, looking for a couple good etude books. Hoping you etude buffs can give me a couple ideas. I've got the Snedecor, Tyrell, Borgdoni, kopprach, blasevich, Chimera, and Ponafka/kheen. I'm wanting to get two more. Any suggestions? I've heard stuff about the Slava, is that one any good?? I would like, just as much as the next guy, just to buy every etude book known to man, but unfortunately, just like the next guy, I'm broke.

If you're seriously masochistic about your etude practice, get the Greg Fritze book from TUBA Press. I think that at some point it won that etude competition that TUBA/ITEA used to run some years back.

Another book that I will stump for is the old Walter Sear etude book. Not as technically challenging as the Fritze, but much more musically rewarding in my opinion. Also has a very wide variety of tunes.

I can't recall exact prices for each, but I know that the Sear book is CHEAP if money is one of your primary concerns.

Kyle

Blastissimo con Forte wrote: I've heard stuff about the Slava, is that one any good??

Maybe you mean Slama? It is very high range oriented or you could play it with good 8va reading skills.


Be forewarned, unless you are buying a transcription down an octave, this stuff is definitely for bassoon/string bass and tuba high range.


Looking at the second page you are already up to a high A, then you jump to it at 16th=108. I have played it, not with much enjoyment, as a form of punishment for not being able to get high parts down in certain pieces. (it is nice that you can pick any major or minor key and play---that way I can really focus on the high range in the mode i'm in)


Wes "not playing it on the types of tubas the vienna school of music tubists did" Pendergrass

You can find a thread here that might of interest:

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Jean-Baptiste Arban.

Blastissimo con Forte wrote:Alright, looking for a couple good etude books. Hoping you etude buffs can give me a couple ideas. I've got the Snedecor, Tyrell, Borgdoni, kopprach, blasevich, Chimera, and Ponafka/kheen. I'm wanting to get two more. Any suggestions? I've heard stuff about the Slava, is that one any good?? I would like, just as much as the next guy, just to buy every etude book known to man, but unfortunately, just like the next guy, I'm broke.

Since your signature says tuba/trombone, I hope that you just forgot to list the Rochut books. If you really don't have them, these should be next on your list.

The Vasiliev book is also very good and you can get the Sumner Erickson CD of those etudes to hear how they should be played.

If you can find a transcribed copy of the Verne Reynolds 48 Etudes for Horn, those are excellent.

Learn to read treble clef and pick up some horn and trumpet etude books. They're cheaper and more plentiful.

Bosquet Etudes, edited by Peter Popiel and Mathew Wilson, pub. by Carl Fischer.

Grigoriev 78 Studies, pub. Robert King

Gallay 40 Preludes, pub. Robert King

Gallay 30 Etudes, pub. Robert King

Concone Complete Solfeggi, ed. Wes Jacobs, pub Encore

Legato Studies for Bass Trombone and Tuba, ed. Reginald Fink, pub. Carl Fischer

Vaseliev Melodious Etudes, pub. Robert King

Mueller Technical Studies, ed. Meyer

Popiel 30 Vocalies

Pauderet Etudes

Uber Concert Etudes

Kling Technical and Musical Studies, ed. Popiel

my spelling could be off, but i recently checked out the otto maenz etude book. it really works on everything that you need

Toby Hanks turned me on to the Max Pottag etude books for Horn. There were two volumes in light blue and red (I think, my covers have since fallen off.)

There are 3 volumes of etudes out that are unlike any other etude series I have ever worked out of. They are the Gilles Senon etudes. Originally for tuba, and for some reason, they seem more like music than etudes, to me, than any other etude collection.

Check them out if you can find them! I don't remember where I bought mine ... otherwise I would give you that 411 as well.

Sincerely-
Andy Larson

MartyNeilan wrote:Toby Hanks turned me on to the Max Pottag etude books for Horn. There were two volumes in light blue and red (I think, my covers have since fallen off.)

By all means! "335 Selected Melodious Progressive and Technical Studies for French Horn" in 2 books (Book 1 = Blue and Book 2 = Red cover). Mine are spiral-bound (Kinko's can do it) so they lie flat and don't fall apart--a problem with a lot of books nowadays.

Great stuff. Bits of Kopprasch, Gallay, etc. along with excerpts and solos.

Well worth the price.

Well, I left out the Rochut, Bosque, vasiliev, and Voxman...those are some more books I have and are working on. I'm just an etude freak. Usually when I get one I'll sightread the whole book in a day...I CAN"T STOP!!! haha