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I haven't bought a new etude book in years. I like etudes. But I keep repeating the same ones over and over. My current stack is:

Bordogni (and also Rochut I and II)
Blazevich
Kopprasch
Snedecore
Vasilev
Shoemaker
Seiber
Tyrell
Verne Reynolds (horn)
Arban

I know there is a newer Snedecore. Walter Sear seems to come up a lot. Any others?

Another thread mentioned Roger Bobo’s “Mastering the Tuba.”

Bobo's Mastering the Tuba is good. In C treble clef, so you can use trumpet fingerings and play on any key tuba. Volume I is more warm-ups and technique drills. I think you can buy the updated complete version here: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Tuba-R ... B000UVLGB6

Otto Maenz, 12 Special Studies (Zwölf Spezialstudien) is a great workout with some challenging atonal etudes: https://accmusicstore.com/products/hofm ... ceRJ-Y1g1c

If you want to continue down the path of stolid Russians like Vasiliev and Blazhevich, you could try the Grigoriev book: https://www.halleonard.com/product/4818 ... s-for-tuba

I really like Gregory Fritze's Twenty Characteristic Etudes for Tuba.

If you're operational at all in treble clef, the sky's the limit. (and the music's better as well!)

Thank you all!

I do have Mastering the Tuba (in its current "Mastering Brass" form). I'm very fluent in treble clef in concert pitch and have also worked through my daughter's Suzuki violin books up through Book 6.

I will check all of these out.

Of ones not mentioned that I like and use:

I like the Phil Sinder Daily Routines for Tuba, Vining/Benavidez flow studies, both a musical representation.

Vasiliev 24 Melodious Etudes

Blazhevich Textbook for Tuba (different than the 70 studies originally for trombone).

Paff Advanced Studies

Tim Olt’s Preparatory Studies for Orchestral Excerpts

Vern Reynolds 48 Etudes

tubanh84 wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 1:29 pm I haven't bought a new etude book in years. I like etudes. But I keep repeating the same ones over and over. My current stack is:

Bordogni (and also Rochut I and II)
Blazevich
Kopprasch
Snedecore
Vasilev
Shoemaker
Seiber
Tyrell
Verne Reynolds (horn)
Arban

I know there is a newer Snedecore. Walter Sear seems to come up a lot. Any others?

From that list, If you worked on a different etude every day 7 days a week you think you'd maybe play half of them twice a year?

Been wanting to pick Vikentios Gionanidis's book up for a while.

UncleBeer wrote: Wed Apr 29, 2026 2:19 pm If you're operational at all in treble clef, the sky's the limit. (and the music's better as well!)

I was reading through this thread to see if someone else would this first, so I wouldn't also say it.

Treble clef is THE clef of western music.
Any musician who reads music off of a five line staff ought to be able to read it off of a treble clef staff.

Whoops. I guess I also said it.

Wanted to add the Bach/Bobo/Bixby