This book is a collection of tried and tested exercises, which will enable you to acquire an effective and comprehensive technique. They are systematically arranged and alternate “flowing” exercises, which train fluency and consistency, with “repeated” exercises, which improve the precision of difficult finger movements. 

The following exercises appear in each key:

1. Scale, possible variations, five-note scale, scale with auxiliary note

2. Thirds (four exercises)

3. Fourths (four exercises)

4. Staccato

5. Arpeggio, with variation

The book will conclude with exercises which target the embouchure and air flow, as well as intonation exercises from Ralf-Jörn Köster and a sound- and legato- exercise from Albrecht Mayer. 

This study book consists of 84 stitch-bound pages and is a wonderful supplement to daily practice for oboe players of almost every level.

Score: have a look further down

Oboe Etudes

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This book is the second volume of 'The Technical Basics of Oboe Playing'. It contains effective and systematic exercises for scales in minor (mostly harmonic but also melodic minors), and therefore completes the scales exercises for all keys - both major and minor.

As in the first volume, the exercises appear in the following forms:

1. Scales: possible variations, 5-note scale, scale with auxiliary note

2. Thirds: repeated, flowing, with auxiliary note

3. Fourths: repeated, flowing, with auxiliary note

4. Staccato

5. Arpeggios: arpeggios with variations

The 'minor edition' also contains the following exercises:

1. Warm up

2. Exercise for a clean and controlled response (Andrea Glaser)

3. Staccato (by Maurice Bourgue)

4. Arpeggios (by Emanuel Abbühl)

An essay on Vibrato (by Matthias Bäcker) completes this exercise book.

The Minor Edition contains 96 stich-bound pages finished with a laminate cover, making the book robust and long lasting.

Oboe Etudes.

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Contents:

1. Warm-up

           Embouchure exercises (reed only)
           Slow scales
           Fifths and fourths
2. Exercise for sound and legato (by Albrecht Mayer)
3. Transition over the break
4. Exercises in different keys – MAJOR (up to 3# and 3b)
           1. Scale, basic pattern, possible variations,
               Triplet scale, 5-note scale, scale with auxiliary note
           2. Chromatic scale
           3. Thirds
           4. Staccato
           5. Arpeggios

5. Exercises in different keys – MINOR (up to 3# and 3b)
           1.1. & 1.2. harmonic minor
           1.3. melodic minor
           1.4. natural minor

Since some instruments do not extend to low B or B flat, the exercises begin on low C (c‘). The highest note is generally top C (c‘‘‘), although some exercises extend to top E flat (E flat‘‘‘).

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English translation: Sasha Calin

1. Finger and hand positioning

2. Technique

2.1   Warm-up

2.2. Finger control

2.3. Transition over the break

2.4. Basic pattern

3. Arpeggios (by Emanuel Abbühl)

4. Embouchure training

5. Double tonguing (by Andreas Schultze-Florey)

6. Optimising embourchure muscle function in wind players (by Herta Maurer-Kraft)

7. Air-flow and support

> An overview about the complex notion of support

> Five questions addressing air-flow and support:

Clara Dent-Bogàny

Nick Deutsch

Albrecht Mayer

Marie-Luise Modersohn

Daniela Tessmann

Christian Wetzel

Gregor Witt

8. Breathing & Sound (by Isa Terwiesche)

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