Taking Your Scales & Arpeggios Even Further

Hi everyone,

In todays post I will be talking about taking your scales and arpeggios even further from the basic scales and arpeggios.

I will be focusing on the flute for this post, but this can be done for any instrument. You just might have to do some research to find out what books would be best for you to enable you to take your scales and arpeggios even further.

Start Off with the Basics

Before going deeper into your scales and arpeggios; its important that you know and understand basic scales and arpeggios. Once you feel comfortable playing your basic scales and arpeggios, you can then start to incorporate additional exercises to enable you to develop further into your understanding of scales and arpeggios.

'The Flute Scale Book' by Patricia George

'The Flute Scale Book' by Patricia George has loads of different ways to work on your scales and arpeggios; and get the best out of your scales and arpeggios. The book starts off with Whole Tone scales and arpeggios, and these are your basic scales and arpeggios; and then it just progresses from there. You have a lot of variety to choose from within this book.

Moyse 'Beginning the Flute'

With Moyse 'Beginning the Flute' you get a two in one, as not only does it help you to develop your scales and arpeggios; but it also focuses on developing your tone throughout the low and middle registers on the flute. The scales and arpeggios exercises start from Exercise 7 through to Exercise 13, and these exercises work through all of the different key signatures and they take you through the low to middle range of the flute.

Reichert Seven Daily Exercises

The 'Seven Daily Exercises' from Reichert are scales and arpeggio exercises that are in every key signature. This book with help you to delve deeper into the world of scales and arpeggios, as its a completely different way of playing scales and arpeggios; and these exercises will push you. Some of these scale and arpeggio exercises can be a little tricky; but they are some easier options for you to start on.

I hope that this post will give you some inspiration for you to develop even further on your scales and arpeggios. There's loads of resources out there to help you to progress and to also give you a more in depth understanding of scales and arpeggios.