95 Dexterity Exercises and Dances for Recorders in C (Soprano & Tenor) Paperback – January 1, 1991

I have this book for F recorders. Added a tenor so I bought this book for C recorders to practice the different fingerings. It has nice, short pieces by famous composers as well as exercises. Despite the book being small, I can easily read the notation inside. I use this book to warm up before practicing.

I bought this after learning to play the soprano and tenor recorders for about 1.5 years. This book is fantastic! There is a progression of exercises, in different keys, and every one of them is interesting and fun. Interspersed with the exercises are Baroque pieces, such as by Bach. You will not find a better exercise book anywhere, especially for this ridiculously low price. One word of caution - the paper version of the book is small - probably around 6 inches by 9 inches. But I have bad eyes and have had no trouble reading/playing. I think you'll need to play something else for your first few months playing recorder, but then you'll be able to pick this up and start right in on it. It's worth the cost, even if it was three times more!

My mother always hated when I practiced fingering exercises on the piano. I loved them and I love these. They are peaceful and relaxing--and by playing the exercises I am helping my fingers remember the fingering patterns common to each scale. I also find the repetition helpful as breathing a exercise--for the musician in me and for my elderly lungs.

The book is smaller that I thought. But it does have good exercised of scales and intervals. This should work if the students practice.

There’s all sorts of benefits from these exercises like breath control, dexterity, intonation and you can mix them around. Great find.

A great little book to help me work on my scales and fingerings that has fun, short songs sprinkled in to keep it from being just a boring book of scales.

I love this book. If you're trying to get better at the recorder beyond what you were taught in elementary school, this is a must have book. This isn't for the fresh beginner, rather for the learner who's ready to take that next step. The first part of the book is all scales and intervals. But interspersed between the exercises are songs by composers you've heard of. I cannot say enough good things about this book. I just want to emphasize, this is a book of exercises. There is no fingering chart. This is not a method book. This is for someone who knows the basics and wants to go to the next level. You will need to learn that second octave though.

Before I bought this book I downloaded a ton of material from the internet, including scales and repertory, then I bought several books on Amazon. All the material is great, but I find myself referring mostly to this single book, especially while travelling. It is compact, comprehensive in technique (without being repetitious, as technique books tend to be), and has tons of little pieces to keep the interest beyond dour technical considerations. This single book is enough to keep one busy for a very long time.(Just copied this from my review of the F book, since I now own both, and yes, both books are identical except for the key. beats having to transcribe the pieces in my head).