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Hello Forum;

As a "for-real" trombone player I've been out of the water for a long time- back in college, our source for exceprts was the Keith Brown collection, and occasional copies from our private teachers. I'm familiar with IMSLP, and I do see that some audition notices actually include exceprts. That said, has one of the great player/teachers published a new collection, for example? Thank you for any thoughts.

This is a good place to start.

http://tromboneexcerpts.org/

Wow- it’s painfully obvious I didn’t think of trying a simple search. Thank you for being patient

Cherry-Classics.com is the business run by Gordon Cherry, the former Principal Trombone of the Vancouver Symphony for quite a while now. He sells a product (either CD rom, or digital download) with a large library of full parts for full low brass sections. Easy to print your own parts for preparing for an audition, or just getting together with some fellow trombonists and playing through some of your favorite tunes. The site also has some good brass chamber music and solo rep as well - also sold as either hard copies or digital downloads. A good source for low brass players to have bookmarked.

Jim Scott

Doug Yeo also has some good resources on his website.

Thank you Jim & Eric! Sounds like two terrific resources.

Get original parts if you can, I don’t have enough hands to count the amount of times I’ve seen studio classes, group lessons or playing sessions where one person has a book and can’t play the “other” big parts of a piece because they either don’t have it or haven’t read it. Also, on occasion you will find that there are just as hard but not asked for licks found in various pieces. The other part of The Creation and the end of the 2nd movement in shosty 5 come to mind

you can use imslp.org to find a lot of editions of common excerpts that are in the public domain. bonus for also getting easy access to the score

In addition to all of the above, Megumi Kanda and Doug Yeo have each edited a collection of excerpts, adding valuable commentary. Even though I have parts to nearly everything myself, I use Doug's book constantly in my teaching studio.

https://www.hickeys.com/music/brass/tro ... bonist.php

https://www.hickeys.com/music/brass/tro ... ombone.php

Ralph Sauer had recorded two CD's where he plays common excerpts and discusses how to play them for auditions. You can find all of the tracks from these CD's on YouTube (and as far as I can tell, the videos are legal, uploaded by Summit Records).

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnBDUu ... wJio2JY9GQ