Walter Zachert

Melodic Exercises

The 'Melodic Exercises', created from practice for practice, can be used alongside any flute school. They begin with moderately difficult etudes that the student can play after about half a year of lessons. In progressive order, they contain the most varied studies, such as scales, intervals, leaps, tone formation, rhythm, ornamentation, chromaticism, etc. Since it is well known that purely technical studies soon dull the student's attention, all exercises have been made melodic. In order to make real progress, it is absolutely necessary to constantly repeat exercises that have already been played, especially the basic exercises.