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Matt, it's all pretty good, though your 1st trombone part is a bit long in the high register.
Same for your 1st trumpet part in the 1st exercise.
for the 4th exercise I might have suggested using a trumpet to replace that, or re-arranging the horns to give the horn the upper part.
it works the way you did it also, however.
all in all, good.
Just be careful about relying too much on the highest register of any instrument.
One thing that's difficult is learning to deal with a mass of instruments in the same register. This is where you start to work out lines that double and pass through others.
There are ways of setting up lines so that basically everyone is playing the same notes, but the DIRECTION of lines is not necessarily the same for everyone.
When I get back, I'll try to put together an example.
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