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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
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!
Serenading Adulthood: Why Your 20s Are Ideal for Learning the Flute
Wondering if you should pick up the flute in your 20s? Here’s a compelling argument that it’s the BEST time to begin learning an instrument.
Effective Practice for Online Flute Students
Are you an online flute student looking to maximize your lessons? Click to read how!
How Flute Lessons Enhance Cognitive Skills and Brain Development
Why Do My Slurs Sound Sloppy?
Best Beginner Flute Brands Under $1000
Are you on the hunt for a beginner flute? Well, look no further. I’ve tried hundreds of different flute models, and having started on a $100 eBay no-name flute, myself, I’m here to tell you which brands will get you the most play-time without spending thousands if you don’t know that your beginner will stick with it. Not only will these flutes play well, meaning your flutist will be able to grow with them, but they will also hold up for a long time and stand up to a little bit of abuse (for the younger player, although we encourage teaching your younger virtuoso flutist early on how to care for their flute well. See my Flute Care and Maintenance blog post). So, let’s get going!
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!
Common Injuries for Flutists and How to Prevent Them
It seems like I’m constantly seeing flutists (not unlike myself) struggling with injuries. We play and play and play not even thinking that what we are doing isn’t necessarily the most natural thing for humans to do. We’re working muscles that most people don’t even know they have (which, in my opinion, makes us superhuman, but that’s just me) and we’re doing so for extended periods of time. Just like any other muscles, these can get fatigued or injured without proper stretching and resting, so I’m here to tell you a few of those injuries and how they can be prevented.
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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