Meerenai Shim
SCALE
STUDIES
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Scale
Studies for Beginner and Intermediate Flutists |
Suggestions on How to Use This Book
1. Make sure your student practices each exercise with a metronome. You may assign a suggested tempo for each exercise, but I allow my students to find a good tempo on their own and write it down in the space provided. In this way, they are responsible for their own tempi and gain experience following the metronome. I expect them to play the exercise well at their written tempo at the lesson. I accept all slow (and fast) tempi as long as they play the exercise well and with the metronome. Sometimes I ask the student to try the exercise in a faster or slower tempo for fun. In the beginning, you will need to help your younger or more inexperienced students figure out how to find a good tempo with the metronome.
2. Reward clear execution and expressive, beautiful tone with a nice pulse rather than pure speed. Scales are the builiding blocks for beautiful music. I encourage my students to play the scales as expressively as their solo pieces.
3. Make it fun. Even my high school students don't seem to mind when I put little heart stickers next to the memorized exercises.
Who Should Use This Book
1. The student who has completed his/her first method book. After my student completes How to Play the Flute Volume 1 (Alfred) and has made it through half of Winning Rhythms, I start them on my book (in addition to etude and solo books).
2. The junior high or high school student who is only comfortable playing flats, due to playing in band with little prior private instruction. In this case, I'd suggest using the book at the beginning. They may zip through a few of the first pages but they can use practice with the minor keys.
3. The intermediate student who is not yet ready for the Taffanel/Gaubert, Trevor Wye, Reichert or equivalent daily studies book. She/he can start in the middle of the book to gain familiarity with the unfamiliar keys and review all the scales before moving on to the advanced scale study books.
4. The adult student who needs to brush up on their scales. They probably already have many of the great scale books but might not be able to get around them as easily as they did when they were in high school honor band. I would suggest that they start generally in the middle of the book for major scales and review all the minor scale exercises from the beginning of the book.