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As promised here are a few tips for flute players. If you want to produce a great sound and a terrific technique then these tips will help but there is no substitute for a good teacher.

Scales. The whole-food of music. You can sightread better if you know your scales and arpeggios. Your performances will be more solid too. Scales played in the correct musical way are very exciting and rewarding. The more you play them the better you get at them! There is an original thought for you to ponder. Not only do you get better at them but they begin to come alive in the pieces you will play. I never fail to be amazed by the great number of people who do not practice scales and arpeggios, the very bricks and mortar of our everyday repertoire.
Vibrato. Control of vibrato helps your musical expression. Learn is and you suddenly have a multicolored palette to use in your playing.
Tone Development. I use a series of exercises that Sir James Galway has written (not yet published) and can help you develop your tone and a flexible embouchure. When playing "long tones" it is too easy for your mind to wander. This series of exercises gives a greater control and flexibility.
What you need to do is to start with b2 ( this is for flute players whose flutes do not have a low B) and with a tempo of 80 on the metronome play a B minor arpeggio in 8th notes. The exercise should sound like this, decending b,f#. d then ascending f# back to a half note B2. So b2,f#2,d2,f#2 long b2. When you do this you will notice you have to move your top lip to correct the pitch, color and dynamic of the tones, thus creating some feedback for your embouchure which you certainly do not get when you are playing the famous “long tones”. When you have done this a number of times then do it a semi tone lower until you have covered the lower two octaves of the flute.
Practice singing this exercise, so you get the intervals right in your head. This is the best way to improve your intonation. Singing is also important as this helps with your projection.
Velocity. How to get the most out of your technique. I think too much is spoken of playing things slowly. How about playing at a reasonable intelligent speed?
"When practising, try to do it right for just one bar - that's progress. Then the next time try to keep it right for two bars."
"Remember, you're not practising for next week, you're practising for next year."