Verne Reynolds etudes for tuba

[Tubaguyjoe]

does anyone know where I can get the Verne Reynolds 40 etudes for french horn book arranged for trombone or tuba? Ive looked all over but cant seem to find much. I heard there were trombone transcriptions out there. Thought a local tubeneter might be able to help me out. Thanks.

[corbasse]

If you can read treble cleff you might be best off to just use the horn book.

Bryan

Unfortunately, because Reynolds uses the entire compass of the french horn, if you read the treble cleff as brass band clef, you will have to transpose the bass clef bits and get down to EEE below pedal CC to play all of it (or is it even lower, to CCC? Haven't got my copy here at work)

[corbasse]

If you can read treble clef and have an F tuba, no transposition will be necessary. The arrangements out for Tuba are the way it would sound if the middle C on treble clef was the F at the bottom of the bass clef staff.

I thought you Americans read bass clef untransposed? (i.e. notated C sounds a C?)
The Reynolds studies in french horn version switch between treble and transposed bass clef (sounding a fifth lower) a lot, sometimes more than once in a single bar. Or do you normally play treble clef C=C as well? It would get awfully high that way.

Either way some mental gymnastics are involved, though that shouldn't be a problem when you're at a level high enough to even try to play these.

[Scott Sutherland]

Contact Tommy Johnson, he transposed the entire Reynolds book along with the Gunther Schuller horn etudes while I was at USC.

[BVD Press]

Pretend the music is in Bass Clef, read it up a step and 1 flat to the key signature. This will give you the correct pitches displaced by an octave.

If you can do it, it opens a whole new world of literature to us Tuba players. You can also play lots of duets with horn players.