Matt,

I'm a comeback player. When I got my new trumpet this year the Arbans book was the first thing I bought. I left it behind me too ... decades ago (instruments and music up in flames in a house fire).

In high school Arbans was my Bible and I tutored with it also -- to my student's dismay. I hated it for a long time, but the player I studied under wouldn't hear of anything else and my director saw improvement, so ...

A few years ago I had an accident and since, I don't have a good memory. As for coming back on the trumpet, I want to take it slow and not rush things and so I've got lots of catching up to do and lots of material to help me. Back when I used Arbans we didn't have computer, MP3 players and recording studios in our houses. I bought a copy of Hal Leonard and I've been doing well with it. It's so nice -- I get an assessment (an unbiased one) of my studies and to me that's the greatest part of the new technology.

So, I was hoping to find something like it for Arbans. I'm actually surprised that a company like Hal Leonard hasn't jumped on that -- probably a copyright issue. For what it's worth, I was actually thinking about creating it myself -- I was kind of testing the water to see if anyone had heard of such a thing. I actually thought of doing this to cassette tape years ago -- probably good thing I didn't since the technologies' so much advanced today than it was just a few years ago.

Anyhow, thanks for replying.

Ike