Here’s what flute teachers are saying about      Flute 101:  Mastering the Basics...

“LOVED, LOVED, LOVED the alternate 3rd octave "more in tune" options on your fingering chart.  Can't tell you how many times contest judges have scolded my students for using those fingerings!  LOVE the "Just for Fun" sections.  Coil binding....” J       -Teresa Muir, Flute Teacher, Chicago, IL, July 2009 “I like it better than any other beginning method book out there. ”      - Helen Spielman, Performance Anxiety Coach and Flute Teacher, Raleigh, NC, July 2009  “This book is what all we teachers have been waiting for!  The book is sensible, practical and makes learning the flute FUN!”      -Mary Sand, Flute Teacher, Cromwell, CT, July 2009 “I found "FLUTE 101: MASTERING THE BASICS" to be a thorough tutorial including many extras for the beginning student as well as a great collection of original compositions and familiar tunes and duets.  Every facet of flute playing is introduced in a natural sequence and with this book, the beginning student advances quite quickly.”      - Elly Ball, Flute Teacher, Hoff-Barthelson School, Scarsdale, NY, July 2009 “I really like this book so far.  This looks like the type of book I would have come up with.  I especially like the tips and the finger exercises.  These are the types of things that I am always adding and writing out on my students' "fingering and octave exercises" page in their lesson binder.”      -Linda Caillavet, Flute Teacher, Beaumont, TX, July 2009 “I love how you have the book set up to start octaves right away.  The extensive preface section is AWESOME!   I am gearing up to start teaching again next week.  I will definitely use this book for my intermediate students to work on musicality and phrasing.”     -Liz Morse, Flute Teacher, Ames, IA, August 2009

Here’s what musicians and teachers are saying about       The Flute Scale Book:  A Path to Artistry...

“This marvelous new scale book is written by two instructors who truly know how to teach scales in a thorough manner. The book is brilliantly conceived to be used with the earliest beginners or by the most advanced flutists, whether children or adults. I'm currently using it with my own students and I love the dazzlingly wonderful vast array of exercises from which I can choose to suit each individual.  This book can be an intelligent, interesting, lifelong guide for any flute player.”      -Helen Spielman, performance anxiety coach and flute teacher, Raleigh, NC, February 2010   “Just have to drop you a note about how much I am enjoying and benefiting from the new Scale Book.  It is much more than the title implies. It really is almost a replacement for about half my library of flute method and etude material.  The key to the success of your work is the combined effect of the order, variety of scales, tone development, phrasing, arpeggios, intervals, and fingering material.  I have especially had great success with the harmonic playing patterns, which have centered, focus the color, and relaxed my embouchure. I also like the RIP scales and just letting the fingers go.  I have also improved my ease and control of note endings, dynamics and phrasing by practice of your phrasing gestures in each key as part of my daily warm up routine.      The wiggles and gruppetto turns on each scale step have started to help me solve a problem I have been working on with smooth turnaround and coordinating fingers between left and right hand in 3rd octave. After doing these just a week my overall technique has smoothed out and my fingers speed and dexterity are definitely getting back to where they were 30 years ago.   Overall, the combination of advice, exercises, and playing material is just the right balance and mixture of elements to give me a good daily workout in the minimum amount of time.       -Jerrold Pritchard, CSU San Bernardino Flute Professor (retired), West Linn, OR, February 2010 “I absolutely LOVE your scale book!!  It is PHENOMENAL!! WOW!! You guys have done something AMAZING!!! I'll use it for my students AND myself!!”      -Sharyn Byer, Flute Teacher and Performer, Falls Church, VA, February 2010 “Love the book. Well, what I've seen of it. My husband took it over for a while for his band classes.”       -Sariah Calkins Sharp, Flutist, Gilbert, AZ,  January 2010 “I LOVE IT!!  Your scale book is such a wealth of information for flutists.  I've been enjoying reading/working through the chapters.   I've especially found the phrasing gestures chapter to be useful.  I've been working on perfecting the down/up gesture, and your exercises along with the description of how it is played on the violin have been helpful.  I was excited to find a whole chapter devoted to embouchure work.”           -Lauren McNee, Flute Student, University of Minnesota, December 2009 “Your book is FABULOUS!!!!! Kudos to you!”      -Justine Popik, Oboe Student, Ithaca College, December 2009