Mel Bay's First Lessons Flute is an easy method for beginning players of all ages. From the first tones to a full two-octave chromatic scale, this book and downloadable online audio will introduce the beginner progressively to the foundations of flute playing and musicianship. Proper assembly, playing position, and embouchure formation are carefully introduced along with simple songs and rudiments of music. Beginning players are taught a set of basic skills from which they can build performance ...

• Flute Fundamentals
• Symbols
• Duple Time Exercise
• Common Time Exercise
• Triple Time Exercise
• Half-Note Exercise
• Whole Note Exercise
• Assembling the Flute
• Playing Position
• First Note B
• New Note A
• Exercising A and B #1
• Exercising A and B #2
• Exercising A and B #3
• New Note G
• Au Clair de Ia Lune
• Fais Do-Do
• Merrily We Roll Along
• Hot Cross Buns
• New Note C
• Exercise from C to B
• New Note F
• Exercise from F to G
• Changing Notes Exercise
• Octave Exercise on F, G, A,...