My daughter uses a book called scales under construction sometimes and quite enjoys it. I don't know if it'd be any use to your student.

Good place to post this Sarah.

I can thoroughly recommend this method which was originally recommended to me by andante_in_c as a way of mentally naming the notes as I played up and down the scale. Within a few minutes it had solved the problem that I've been wrestling for the last year or two, and I've found it unbelievably easy to memorise the note names now.

Scales to their extremes are great. It's good practise on the whole range of your instrument.
I also like daily exercises; they're great for tone and fingers.

Breaking things down to practise

Grade 5 scales and the scale syllabus

Making runs and scales even (flute)

Scales to the 12th vs 2 octaves

Likely scales in G6 flute

"Can you mess up scales and still get a good mark?"

Breathing interrupting the flow of a scale - what is OK?

Recorder scales "down to the dominant"

Flute technique - content of Taffanel and Gaubert Complete Method

Last minute pre-exam scale tips and ideas for learning them/minimising disasters

Ideas for getting to know scales really thoroughly

Ear protection when playing very high notes

Fast scales in pieces

Please feel free to add more scale help here

Using longtone scales to improve stamina on the oboe

Flute - Gilbert scale stuff

Scale books for clarinet and general discussion on the usefulness of scales, reading from the page vs learning scales by ear, etc

Flute: Playing Ab major only moving one hand... (also touches on playing other things using harmonics.)

Legato & staccato tonguing in scales

Which scale book for clarinet?

Orchestral extracts vs scales (flute but maybe of general interest)

Taffanel & Gaubert Scale exercise (EJ4) arranged by Jen Cluff (flute)

Moyse and others scale exercises/books discussion (flute technique)

G major 2 octaves - getting the top note

Dominant 7ths on sax

High G on sax and dominant 7ths

G5 scales for flute, and query on what scales can be asked

Recorder scales "down to the dominant"

Dominant and dimished 7th patterns for G5 flute

Ways of practising scales (several posts with varying viewpoints)

Trouble memorising scales

More recorder scales also merits of scales vs scale studies etc

Scale speed consistency

Dimished scales

Dominant 7ths scale patterns

Memorising scales

Expected speed etc for G5 clarinet scales

The scale/tuning of the flute

What order to learn flute scales?

Long tones and scales for oboe stamina

Good practice structures, including scales

Bassoon key problems in scales

Thread about fluffing clarinet exam, but also contains some wise advice, some help, and some reassurance about scales.

Recorder scale and technique books

Moving between C and Eb on recorder and how it applies in certain passages/scales/arpegs

Questions and answers on aspects of G5 clarinet scales

More bassoon fingering stuff

Flute - Moyse scale & technique books & similar

Arpegs and octave jumps for more secure high register tone on the oboe.

Recorder grade 1 - teaching, scales, range, tonguing.

Scale Flashcards

I Love Scales club thread

Practice the major and minor forms together, e.g. D major and D minor.
Practising the minor and its relative major also helps!

Just thought I'd give this thread a bump - I find it useful even if no one else does

I do too!! I keep meaning to finish off writing down all the things I want to try from it, but not got round to it yet!!!

Hello Sarah, nice to see you!

I miss chatting about scales with you

A fairly random remark about something which is bugging me at the moment.

I have never had a problem playing scales from memory on the piano or until now on the oboe but my brain is currently refusing to co-operate for a handful of melodic minors. I have always thought of melodic minors as going up in the tonic major with a flattened 3rd note and coming down in the relative major but for some reason on the oboe I can't seem to "mentally" swap from flats to sharps when I get to the top (ie in scales like C# minor where I want to think of going up in Db and coming back down in E).

If I'm teaching pupils to use this method I suggest they think in C# major rather than Db major. Then every note is sharp on the way up except for the 3rd.

I did think about relearning Db major as C# but that doesn't seem to be much easier. Initially I learnt the major scales (and some of the minors) by visualising the pattern on the piano keyboard before playing them on the oboe and the majors are now sufficiently fluent that I don't actually think about the note names, my fingers just play them. I can play the melodics with the scale book in front of me (which is what my teacher expects me to do anyway) so I think I shall just carry on like that and hope that eventually the fingering becomes automatic enough not to need to think about names.

Hello! Nice to see you too

More thoughts and different ideas for tackling WW scales.