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Originally Posted by HaVIC5  I personally find the omnibook useless for reading because its full of mistakes with regards to accidentals and layout and a lot of things that really shouldn't be in a professional publication. Four eksample, it wood bee liek reeding an intire book wear everything iz isspelled liek this. Even if the information gets across, it's done very inefficiently, and doesn't have the intended result - getting better at reading. |
While the Omnibook is not perfect it does lend itself to better reading of
music instead of reading a series of intervals.
The original trombone book would let a horn player work on things like different articulations, embrochure, intonation and endurance, three of those which aren't addressed by the bass version by nature of the differences in the instruments.
Another problem with the trombone/bass version is it lends itself to pattern memorization. I could describe every exercise like "Dominant 13th arpeggio, played in eighth notes ascending and descending approaching each chord member from a half step below." It's the same as using "The Bass Grimoire" as a reading resource. Different pattern algorithm, same results. It's more of a brain exercise.
If you don't like the Omnibook there's also a book of the complete bass and cello parts for all nine Beethoven symphonies that I like to use. Those are very insightful and useful for reading music instead of just notes.
YMMV.
