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Back to the exercise that is the topic of the post:
I'm really interested in becoming really good at playing it (and in a handful of keys). I can target shoot just fine with my F tuba - which is my so-called "main" instrument (though I don't use it on very many gigs these days), but I would like to be able to target shoot a little more accurately with this huge new to me instrument...
...OK: because I use it on quite a few gigs, these days.

I tend to suspect (could be wrong...??) these exercises were written back when most horn players played single F horns with valves...I sort of liken playing above the staff with a big B-flat tuba to playing high on a single F horn.

arpthark wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 1:54 pm

bloke wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 1:10 pm

pjv wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 12:28 pm If you're into challenging your Bb reading/valve mashing I can truly recomend Verne Reynolds' 48 Studies for French Horn. I just play them in C, but I don't think it really makes a difference which key you play them in. They can be real head bangers.

I have Cherry Beauregard's old crappy manuscript version, and have been reading back through them (now: on my B-flat tuba).
...It was SO crappy, that I had to take a ruler - to each line on each staff on each page - and re-trace every single line.

As is known (yes?) the first 24 are pairs of slow-fast etudes concentrating on each of the basic intervals (ex: #'s 1 & 2 are studies on the interval of the semitone), and the subsequent 24 are mix-and-match.

Let me know if you'd like a clean typeset PDF.

@arpthark Is this one you prepared or a scan of the commercial one that was out for a while? Just asking, not implying anything.Thanks

Actually, you made me realize that although Cherry's edition is out of print, the original isn't, and Schirmer might not like me if I left that offer up. Regardless of being out of print, they are still both likely under copyright. So I will avoid the litigious tuba forum scourers and amend my original post.

re: drill of the millennium, that is a great exercise. I used to use that as part of my day-lee roo-teen, but I only ever did the lower octave, and only in the written key. I'll put it on the docket for tomorrow, without the Do Not Pass Go/Do Not Collect $200 punishing clause.

arpthark wrote: ↑Sat Mar 25, 2023 9:58 pm Actually, you made me realize that although Cherry's edition is out of print, the original isn't, and Schirmer might not like me if I left that offer up. Regardless of being out of print, they are still both likely under copyright. So I will avoid the litigious tuba forum scourers and amend my original post.

re: drill of the millennium, that is a great exercise. I used to use that as part of my day-lee roo-teen, but I only ever did the lower octave, and only in the written key. I'll put it on the docket for tomorrow, without the Do Not Pass Go/Do Not Collect $200 punishing clause.

I wouldn't mind receiving the file. I paid decent money (a good bit, back then, and much more now - if inflation adjusted) for my crappy book. At least, I should've gotten something legible...and I'm sure Schirmer paid CB for the edition/transcription - as crappy as it was.