I bought this book for my son in high school. Should be the core of every tuba player's library The authors have really improved upon the trumpet Arbans. spiral bound, it has everything! Etudes, scales, great info about breathing and playing. This is one of the compulsory texts for tuba!Īlong with the Blazhevich and Bordogni (spelling) for etudes.īut the arbans is better. I truly agree on the arban complete method it is a great has great exercises to build up your sound and technique. I do not know how to rate the Fisher book fairly because of the binding issues.īook looks great, nice bindings to it and affordable price point. So, I give five stars to this Encore version of Arban. As soon as I open it up to practice it quickly slams shut! USELESS. A book like the Fisher Arban would be good at a library as it sits flat on the SHELF. Young in the Encore version.Īs I said above, the binding is a huge issue. The text is not bad, it is just not as complete and focused on the tuba as the text by Dr. This makes me think that all of the text may not really be written for tuba but simply taken from an old trumpet Arban. The Fisher book has some funny errors such as using the word “trumpet” instead of “tuba”. The text is completely different in these two versions. I did not check every page, but I am pretty sure they are the same. It seems that the music is the same in both books. The short answer is simply to purchase the Encore (Young) Arban Method to avoid huge frustration. Without spiral binding, a 300+ page book will not stay open on your music stand and therefore is useless. The big difference (and this is very important) is that the Encore version is spiral bound. The text is better in the Encore version (my opinion), but the Fisher version is still of some value. The big differences in these books are the text and the binding. Since I have not seen a comparison review and because I own both books, I will offer the info. This review compares the Encore Arban tuba book with the Carl Fisher Arban tuba book. Not all the section first pages consistently show Roman numerals as per the table of contents. Spiral binding is wonderful for page turning and lying flat.
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