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Here’s what flute teachers are saying about
Flute 101: Mastering the Basics...
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“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.” 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
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
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Here’s what musicians and teachers are saying about
The Flute Scale Book: A Path to Artistry...
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“I earned my DMA in Flute Performance and Pedagogy in 1988. The Topic of my Monograph
was “A Comparison and Application of Select Teaching Methods for The Flute by Henri Altes,
Paul Taffanel-Philippe Gaubert, Marcel Moyse and Trevor Wye”. I included these methods in
my research because I felt they were the major steps in the pedagogical development of the Western European Transverse Flute.
After studying from The Flute Scale Book: A Path to Artistry and now using it as a daily staple of my practice
routine, I can easily say this book is the next major step in the pedagogical development of the Transverse Flute. Patricia
and Phyllis....WELL DONE!!!”
-David Etienne, Professor of Music, Henderson State University,
Arkadelphia, AR, April 2010
“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. 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
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