Are there any "how to teach flute" books?

I'm a self-taught flutist (I only took a few lessons way back in highschool before the teacher moved away) and 30 years later, I'm now helping my young daughter to learn to play the flute.
She has natural talent (as I guess *I* did ;>) but I'm at a loss to really know "How to teach" as I never actually had any background in that. My only flute lessons were really just comprised of playing duets.
I asked at my local music store about "how to teach the flute" books, and they said they didn't know of any.
Right at the moment, my daughter has a tendency to breathe every bar, and I hope this isn't going to become a bad habit, but what do I suggest to her?
Any help at all or lists of good books to look at would be great.
Thanks. Dad of six.

Dear Dad,
1. There is a great flute "how to" book with
demonstration CD of all the basic flute techniques.
The photos are good, the explanations are clear, the
the exercises short, pithy and totally set the flute
student onto the right track.

See Vernon Hill's "The Flute Player's Book" at:
http://users.bigpond.com/vkhill/

You can also order this and all the other books
mentioned below at:
www.fluteworld.com

2. To teach you "how to teach" there are several books.
The best I've found are:
The Art of Playing the Flute (Vol I to III) by Roger
Mather

You can find the above three volumes by ordering them
at www.fluteworld.com or by filling out an
"Interlibrary loan" request slip at your public
library.

You can also look through all the myriad flute teaching
books at:
I Flute teaching books
II Flute teaching books
and at:
JustFlutes look under TUTORS on the top
right pop down menu for "music catalogue".

3. An illustrated flute "How to" book that every flute
teacher will want to own (to show the pictures to the
student especially) is:
Illustrated Fluteplaying. Robin Soldan/Jeanie Mellersh


4. You'll also find a flute a good flute teaching manual online by
Charles Delaney.

5. A very full list of books that are about teaching
the flute will appear on various bibliographies (try
ordering titles you're interested in from the library
using "inter-library-loan").
See:
I Flute teaching bibliography

II Flute teaching bibliography

III Flute Teaching Bibliography

IV. Flute Teaching Bibliography

6. A chart of flute levels (estimates of grade levels
for buying new sheet music for students, or for knowing
what skills are next to teach) can be found online also.


7. There are also some good flute magazines to
subscribe to.
One of the least expensive in the U.S. is Flutetalk.

Flutetalk contains acres of articles on teaching flute.
You may find back-issues at your local music library or
University library under periodicals.
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Beginner books:
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As for books that help you with hands-on formats so you
can go smoothly from skill to skill: there are two sets
of books that are good for absolute beginners. They
both help you teach, page by page, so that all the
information falls within an intelligent, and
time-tested order,and there are tunes to play and duets
as well.
The second title, in five volumes has extensive short
flute solos (folk and classical) with piano, so if you
play piano, you can really help your child along with
playing repertoire that teaches.
See:
8.Published by Novello:
Trevor Wye 'Beginner Book of the Flute' Vol. I-2

Also see:

9.Karen Smithson 'Playing the Flute' Vols. I to V

Both these titles are avail from www.fluteworld.com

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Method Books:
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The least expensive, and most hardy method books (by
Altes, Wagner etc. plus studies, scales and duets of
all kinds) can be found on a CD-rom called "The
Ultimate Sheetmusic for Flute".
10. See: www.cdsheetmusic.com . This is sold in many
stores and online as well.
Look for the CD-rom of "Flute, Methods, Studies and
Ensembles".
The index to all the pieces on this one CD-rom is here:


You can also find method books in the library, or maybe
can find inexpensive ones at your local music store,
but I have tried them all, and have found that the ones
listed above for beginners and novices are the best:
Altes Method and Wagner's Foundation to Flute Playing.
If you're interested for yourself, and your own playing,
Trevor Wye also has a good series of books on TONE,
INTONATION, ARTICULATION and SCALES/BREATHING.
If you have the cash, this book is worth investing in
for yourself:


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Other flute books and solo sheetmusic
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12. For lists of books of all kinds that contain actual
flute music, exercises, scales, etudes etc. see:

Jen's list of flute books for those on a budget

Jen's favourite flute repertoire

Best flute books (for the advanced flutist) including teaching books


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13. Taking lessons yourself.
Finally, if you take weekly flute lessons yourself, you
will gain alot of insight from your own teacher about
how to teach.
To find a teacher go to:
14. www.harpsong.org and look in their private teacher
search.

I highly recommend this, as the worst part of not
having flute lessons is the development of bad-habits
of which we're unaware, and then later have to be
undone.
There are myriad bad-habits that creep into flute
playing, and they are SO frustrating to try and
"un-do".
See:
15. Bad Habits Flutists do not want, article.

16. Free flute exercises and sheetmusic can be found online here.

17. Free flute listening and flute MP3s from James
Galway can be found online also.

18. And for good quick info. on how not to form the
"typical flutist's bad habits", see the beginner and
intermediate articles on flute at these links:

Flute Beginner's Articles
Intermediate flutist's articles.

Good luck with your daughter's slightly too large
embouchure.
I think the quick answer would be to ask her to very
gently press the lips together vertically, on either
side of the lip hole.
Doing this with the fingers first to find the muscles,
and asking her to use a mirror to see that the hole in
her lips is the size of a grain of rice (lying
horizontally) usually works.
Best,
Jen Cluff