Inspire your fledgling flute players with these wonderful books which are guaranteed to please everyone!
da Costa and Arnold: Flute Perfect to Grade 1
This excellent flute tutor has a clear text, useful illustrations, and a focus on the important basics of rhythm and sound. Progression through the book is sensible too. Designed for both individual and group tuition, there is a supplementary Teacher’s Book which contains comprehensive teaching notes as well as ensembles and piano accompaniments. This is simple and effective – perfect! Difficulty Guide: 0-1
Sarah Watts: Razzamajazz Flute for Flute and Piano with audio download.
This wonderful book is just so good for beginner flutes, as shown by the format of the first piece, B Groovy. Theres only B used in the flute part, leaving the piano (acoustic or online) to give the music its jazz character. The 22 tunes all have titles to add extra interest and are progressive so there’s plenty of value here too. This is a life-saver of a book, excellent supplementary material for any standard tutor and brilliant fun for beginners of all ages! Difficulty Guide: 0-2
Victoria Rockport: Sticky Fingers for Flute
This great little book which develops basic flute skills is so useful. The twelve short exercises are all given titles so they add a musical point to a technical necessity, and the mix of solos and duets ensures that a different focus is given to each one. Top Tips will help with practice and QR codes take you to a live performance video. This is such a good package and highly recommended for beginners everywhere! Difficulty Guide: 1-3
Oosthuizen and Oosthuizen: Little Demon Studies for Flute
This is a very good book for young beginners which tackles the basics of posture, articulation and breath control in easy bite-size pieces. There are no frills here but each piece has a line drawing to bring the music to life and a checklist of what to focus on. There are also words to help with rhythm and everything is in the low register. This is a solid book which is useful material for bridging the gap between tutor and simple repertoire. Difficulty Guide: 0-1
McDowall and Hunt: Harlequin for Flute and Piano
This is a great book which lists some original gems from Cecilia McDowell as well as her arrangements of pieces from Daquin to Sullivan. There are no duds here – each piece is really good and their progressive order makes it all easy to navigate. This is a bumper book of great tunes that is very good value too. Excellent! Difficulty Guide: 1-3