For my sophomore audition, we were required to play stuff from the Arban's Book. There are plenty of decent things in there to use. Mine sucked because my good horn was in for repair and I had to use my barely playable Grandfather's trombone.
The Arban's book has been re-edited by Brian Bowman and Joe Alessi (former USAF Band euph soloist, now professor at University of North Texas; and principal trombone of the NY Phil, respectively) to remove all the errors.
Did you know there were BOATLOADS of errors in the earlier vintages of the Arban's book? No? Well then, you weren't workin' HARD enough, were ya?
