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The Power of the Daily Warm-Up: Techniques to Calm the Mind and Strengthen Your Flute Playing
A solid daily warm-up routine is essential for any musician, but it’s especially transformative for flutists. Not only does it prepare your body and mind for focused practice, but it also fosters mindfulness and confidence. Let’s explore a step-by-step daily warm-up that combines physical, mental, and musical elements to help you unlock your best playing.
Why are my low notes so airy? Common low-register flute problems and solutions
Struggling with airy low notes on the flute? You’re not alone. Many flutists face challenges in achieving a full, resonant tone in the low register. Fortunately, with some adjustments and mindful practice, you can create the beautiful, velvety low notes you’re aiming for. Here are the most common issues and their solutions.
Listening Deeply: How to Improve Your Flute Tone by Being Present in Your Practice
As flutists, we’re always chasing that elusive, perfect tone—pure, rich, and resonant. But achieving it isn’t just about technique or equipment. It’s about tuning into yourself and engaging your mind and body with curiosity and kindness. So, as your favorite San Diego flute teacher, allow me to help you explore how mindfulness can help you unlock your most beautiful flute sound.
How to Play Flute With Less Tension and More Ease
Physical tension in flute playing can accumulate in various areas of the body, often without awareness. This tension arises for many reasons, but fundamentally, it's the body’s response to challenging situations. When faced with difficulty, the subconscious may brace for failure or push the muscles to strive for success. It's crucial to recognize that tension is the body's attempt to assist. However, this can lead to tight grips in the fingers, hindering quick movement, or rigidity that affects proper breathing
How to Guarantee You’ll Make Progress in Your Flute Playing
Guaranteeing you'll make progress at your flute is hard, but if you follow these steps, you can make moves and continue to make gains in your playing.
Moving My Flute Lesson Studio to San Diego
Moving my flute lesson studio to San Diego is one of the hardest things I’ve ever done, but I learned some lessons along the way.
Practicing Flute Tone Mindfully
Practicing flute tone mindfully is the best way to improve! Read on to learn how.
How to Maintain and Care for Your Flute: Tips from a San Diego Flute Teacher
San Diego flute teacher gives her best tips and tricks on caring for your flute so you can play your best and it last years to come.
3 Ways to Improve Your Flute Tone
Struggling with your flute tone? Here are 3 ways you can work to improve it, courtesy of a flute teacher with 20+ years of experience.
Flute Tone for Dummies
Struggling with airy or bad flute tone? Read this to learn more about how to fix it!
How Can I Salvage a Bad Flute Tone Day?
Having a bad tone day? Here are a few ways to fix it!
Flute Tone for Fuller Lips
Are you struggling with your flute tone as a person with fuller lips? Click here to learn a few ways you can correct your embouchure to better accommodate your body!
Flute Embouchure Secrets: Techniques for Beautiful Tone
Struggling to get the beautiful tone that you want to hear from your flute? Click to read more!
Play, Pause, Perfect: How Online Flute Lessons are Transforming Music Education
Learn how online flute lessons can help you become a great flutist!
The Benefits of Learning the Flute: Why You Should Consider Private Lessons
Breathing Exercises for Flutists
Flutists’ most significant asset and adversary is often the breath. It takes as much air to play the flute as it does a tuba, so we need lungs of steel to make it happen. Breath is also a key factor in anxiety control and stage fright management. I deal with high levels of nerves, so breathing exercises not only help me build my lung support and play my instrument, but they also help me deal with performance anxiety and nerves. Here are a few of my favorites.
Is Is Too Late to Learn Flute?
When I began teaching flute, I heard a lot from adults that would say, “I would love to learn (or re-learn) the flute but I’m just too old. This is SO far from the truth. We spend so much of our time being worried about being “too old” for something for a few reasons - one, we’re afraid we will look silly doing an activity that children often do in school, and two, we are concerned we won’t have enough time to get good. But, here’s the thing - enjoying a hobby and enjoying your life isn’t about “being good” and you will never, ever look silly if you’re enjoying something!
Why Is My Flute Tone So Airy?
Oh, the struggle of every flutist, ever. From the complete beginner to the professional flutist, we have all struggled with our flute tone at some point or another. So, to make sure your tone isn’t airy, let’s try a few tweaks and exercises.
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