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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.
5 Essential Tips for Beginner Flutists
Flute is such an incredible instrument, so first of all, yay! You’ve chosen a fun instrument that can do a variety of things - classical, jazz, even rock and metal. The possibilities with flute are endless, but we do need to make it through the basics to get to the really fun stuff. So, I have five essential tips for you to fly your way through the basics and become an incredible flutist. Proper posture, breath control, finger placement, a great practice routine, and the ability to seek guidance are some of the most important things to keep in mind when beginning your flute journey on the right foot.
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!
Effective Practice for Online Flute Students
Are you an online flute student looking to maximize your lessons? Click to read how!
The Benefits of Learning the Flute: Why You Should Consider Private Lessons
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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