I'm looking at the grade 8 flute syllabus which says I need whole tone scales starting on C and C# and scales in thirds for F and G major. I know there are examples in the back of the book but as I'm hopeless with scales it would be really useful if I could see them written out properly, in full somewhere so I could learn them parrot fashion. Does anyone know of any such place?

They are in the AB flute scale book, but are really quite easy to work out and, if necessary, write out yourself -have a go!

Start on any note (say C), play a note a tone (two semitones) above it, and repeat five times which will bring you to the note an octave above the note you started on. That is a whole-tone scale.

Repeat the whole exercise, starting on a note a semitone above the first note (Db) and do the same thing.

If you repeat the whole exercise starting on D you will play a scale identical to the first one, except you start and end on D.

This should show you that you only need to learn two scales!

Ie

C D E F# G# A# C
Db Eb F G A B Db
D E F# G# A# C D
Eb F G A B Db Eb
E F# G# A# C D E

and so on and so on until you've worked out all twelve. But really there are only two.

Whole-tone arpeggios:

C E G# C
Db Eb G Db

and so on.