Complete Daily Exercises for the Flute - Flute Tutor: Essential Practice Material for All Intermediate to Advanced Flautists

I think I'm addicted to scales. I don't know why but I just love flipping through these types of exercise books, dense with notes and accidentals and scales, and just staring at them. It's so aesthetically satisfying. And in the practice room I have to stop myself from just doing scales endlessly to work on other aspects of technique. What a problem, right? But anyways, even Trevor Wye's Practice Book omnibus isn't enough for my addiction, tons of free pdfs on IMSLP don't satisfy, so I picked this up. And it's great. Looks like it will keep me occupied forever with endless variations on scales, intervals, arpeggios, sequences, and so on. Right now, I've noticed a need to work on my third octave scales, and I know I could just mentally transpose my daily scales up an octave, but Lo and Behold there is a whole section dedicated to third octave scales here. It's much more satisfying playing the notes as they're written out. Something about all those ledger lines.It's true, most of the exercises are lifted verbatim from older sources, but he makes that clear. Some are unattributed but easily recognizable: his Section 2 Scales #7 #8 #9 are 99% the same as the famous Taffanel & Gaubert #1 #2 and #4. But again, he makes it clear that the purpose of this book is to compile all of these exercises into one volume. He gathers interesting exercises from Reichert, Maquarre, Boehm, and others. And in the case of the old French exercises, if not out-of-print they are often expensive and hard to find, so it's nice to have the content in a modern convenient edition. In addition there are plenty of his own original, interesting exercises and plenty of classic Wye commentary—hints on fingerings that improve intonation or facilitate speed are spread throughout and valuable. It's light on text, but Wye preaches elsewhere, so that's fine. It comes with a 'practice card' with some routine ideas and articulation variations, which I guess could be useful, but what would've made it really useful is printing it laminated so the student could dry-erase and re-use it.And the book is SPIRAL-BOUND, hallelujah. All music should come spiral-bound.Two points of note: (1) I don't think I've ever complained about music staff size but it's true, the whole book seems printed at 75% the standard size, like an Ossia. Two potential trouble areas are the resulting miniscule trill accidentals and quickly identifying extremely high (ledger) notes and some articulations, but since most of the exercises are scales and things you should be able to extrapolate it's not a huge problem. It is noticeable to this 28 y/o. (2) I wish there were more scale/chord annotations. For many of the scale and arpeggio exercises, you are wordlessly led through a dizzying 4-page, 32-staff exercise that changes accidentals/keys without any indication—all I want is for it to mention the key "C major" "Ab minor" etc. I know at an intermediate stage a musician should be able to recognize the keys. I might want to use the book in a cross-cutting way—quickly go through playing all the exercises in a problem key, for example, but I can't do that easily. For many of them he does indicate it, but many are not marked.

I was a professional flutist who studied with Trevor Wye. He is (was) the best flute pedagogue ever and, since this book was new to me, I decided that I had to have it. I am thrilled! Thanks!

Un libro que HAY que tener, 100% recomendado. Tiene todos los ejercicios diarios de Reichert, tambien hay de Moyse, todas las escalas, diferentes arpegios, etc. La calidad de impresión y encuadernado es excelente.

Totally awesome exercises for intermediate to advanced flutists!A blend of Trevor's own exercises and those of the "French school."Really great practice diary at the back which you can make your own Excel sheet of.If you're on the fence about whether to get it and have the spiral-bound books 1-6; yes it is sufficiently different,and totally worth buying. The notes aren't that small to read either, if you're worried about that.I can see that I will progress much faster by using the structure of this book and supplementing it with material from Books 1-6.Has interval studies and 3rd Octave studies to help with your high notes.Wish I had gotten it a lot earlier!

THIS BOOK IS A DEFINITE KEEPER FOR ALL FLUTE PLAYERS. I RECOMMEND HIGHLY. THE EXERCISES ARE SO HELPFUL. IT STARTS OFF WITH EASIER EXERCISES AND GRADUALLY GETS A LITTLE MORE CHALLENGING. IF YOU HAVE THIS BOOK, YOU DO NOT NEED TO LOOK ANY FURTHER. DON'T HESITATE, PURCHASE THIS BOOK.

I use it in my daily practice. I need to enlarge the pages in order to see the exercises better,

Must have for any SERIOUS flautist!!!!Bar none! Period! Get it!!!

I enjoy the music. The spiral bind is a good design that opens fully on the music stand.

Just what I was hoping for, love the spiral binding. Very interesting exericises.. Stretch my brain and body lol.

Great for intermediate to advanced level. Lots of different exercises, so can vary things each day. Separate articulation card which is handy for reference as you play through exercises.

Excelente libro, es una recopilación de varios ejercicios para el estudio diario de cualquier flautista

内容としては他の練習曲集からの寄せ集め。網羅性は良いのであるが、めくりが多いのが使いにくいところ。見開きで一つの練習曲が終わるように工夫されているも良い

This is a great book