- Scales. Major scales in two octaves
- Sight-reading
- Etudes. Suggested etudes can be found in Voxman's Selected studies , Bordogni and Rochut's Melodious Studies, Vol. 1, and Arban's Characteristic Studies
- Perform two contrasting movements from works that are comparable in difficulty to Curnow's Rhapsody for Euphonium, Arban's Carnival of Venice and Variations on a Tyrolean Song, DeLuca's Beautiful Colorado or Clinard's Sonata for Unaccompanied Euphonium.