These exercises are written to improve finger, articulation and breathing technique as well as to increase in speed. They can be used on treble recorders with either German or English fingerings. As daily exercises, when mastered completely, they should be played through in 40 minutes all together. At each stage compare the time taken with the figure in seconds given at the end of each exercise, and aim at the performance of the complete book within the prescribed time. Of course, any part of it may be used as practice material and in your own time. If nothing else is mentioned, play both legato as well as staccato.

The player will notice that each exercise has its own individual structure, melodically, rhythmically or harmonically, he/she is advised to trace and consider these musical features. The mastering of the instrument is reached only when the printed music is formally and harmonically completely absorbed and freely expressed while playing.

The composition and the order of the exercises are based on the author's long experience as a teacher. They aim at the extension of daily practice throughout the so long neglected complete chromatic compass of the recorder in order to comply with the demands of modern music.

Pentatonische Folgen - Pentatonic sequences - Enchaînements pentatoniques · Lockerung des linken Daumens und Handgelenks - Loosing of left thumb and wrist - Assouplissement du pouce et du poignet gauches · Verkürzte Reihen - Scales progressively shortened - Gammes abrégées · Die Tonleiter F-Dur und ihre Mollparallele - F major scale and its relative minor scale - La gamme de fa majeur et sa relative mineure · Die Tonleiter G-Dur und ihre Mollparallele - G major scale and its relative minor scale - La gamme de sol majeur et sa relative mineure · Terzsprünge - Leaps in thirds - Sauts de tierces · Trochäische und jambische Bindungen - Trochaic and iambic slurs - Liaisons en iambes et en trochées · Akkordzerlegungen, diatonisch - Broken chords, diatonic - Accords brisés, diatoniques · Die Tonleiter B-Dur und ihre Mollparallele - B flat major scale and its relative minor scale - La gamme de si bémol majeur et sa relative mineure · Septimenketten - Sequences of 7th chords - Enchaînements d'accords de septième · Zerlegte Drei- und Vierklänge - Broken chords of three and four notes - Accords brisés de trois et quatre notes · Die Tonleiter C-Dur und ihre Mollparallele - C major scale and its relative minor scale - La gamme de do majeur et sa relative mineure · Fallende Quarten - Descending fourths - Quartes descendantes · Tetrachorde in beide Richtungen - Tetrachords up and down - Tétracordes ascendants et descendants · Die Tonleiter D-Dur und ihre Mollparallele - D major scale and its relative minor scale - La gamme de ré majeur et sa relative mineure · Dreierfolgen in Vierergruppen, chromatisch - Sequences of three notes in four-note groups, chromatic - Suites de trois notes groupées par quatre, chromatiques · Alle Töne außerhalb der Stammtonleiter - All notes outside F major - Toutes les notes sauf la tonique · Diatonische Leitern mit nachfolgender chromatischer Ausfüllung - Diatonic scales interspersed with chromatic notes - Gammes diatoniques avec ajout de chromatisme · Die Tonleiter Es-Dur und ihre Mollparallele - E flat major scale and its relative minor scale - La gamme de mi bémol majeur et sa relative mineure · Fallende Intervalle wachsender Größe - Descending intervals progressively enlarged - Intervalles descendants, de plus en plus grands · Wechselrhythmen, chromatisch-pentatonisch - Alternating rhythms, chromatic-pentatonic - Rhythms alternés, chromatiques-pentatoniques · Die chromatische Tonleiter - The chromatic scale - La gamme chromatique · Ganztonfolgen - Whole tone sequences - Suites de tons entiers · Ausschnitte der Dur-Leitern im Oktavrahmen - Parts of major scales within the compass of an octave - Extraits de gammes majeures sur une octave · Zerlegte Akkorde mit gleichbleibendem Anfangston - Broken chords with the same initial notes - Accords brisés commençant sur la même note · Terzen mit Halbtonrückungen in beide Richtungen - Thirds progressing in semitones in both directions - Tierces progressant par demi-tons, ascendantes et descendantes · Läufe und Akkorde im Gesamttonraum der Altflöte - Scales and arpeggios within the complete compass of the treble recorder - Gammes et arpèges sur tout le registre de la flûte alto · Harmoniegestützte Folgen - Chordal progressions - Progressions harmoniques