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Concentration and Stamina in Your Playing

Concentration and Stamina in Your Playing

by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Aug 18, 2022 | Etudes, FluteTips, Performing, Practice

Concentration and stamina are two areas of flute playing that we all need to work on. These are skills that you can learn. I know that I can work on those too. These are things that I’ve learned later in my performing and teaching career. They’re not...
Finding the Musical Line

Finding the Musical Line

by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Feb 3, 2022 | Etudes, FluteTips, Performing, Practice

When you practice do you just play the notes on the page, or do you make music with those notes? It is okay to just play the notes on the page. But it is much more rewarding to make music with those notes. Finding the musical line in your music is a wonderful exercise...
Always Warm Up Musically

Always Warm Up Musically

by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Jan 20, 2022 | Etudes, FluteTips, Performing, Practice

A lot of times when we are warming up, we just play our exercises to get through them. We play them to warm up the lip, and to warm up the fingers. But we are not really thinking our way through them. Every time you have the flute up to your lip, you need to be making...
30-Minute Practice Session Using Mozart Concerto in G

30-Minute Practice Session Using Mozart Concerto in G

by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Aug 5, 2021 | Etudes, FluteTips, Practice, Technique, Tone

You are busy. You don’t have all the time in the world to practice – especially if you’re working a full-time job, and perhaps it’s not even in music. But you still want to improve, you want to get better. You come home and you have dinner to...
Why You Should Be Practicing Etudes Every Day

Why You Should Be Practicing Etudes Every Day

by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Jan 28, 2021 | Daily Routine, Etudes, FluteTips, Practice, Tone, Tonguing

Is practicing etudes a drudgery for you? Do you intentionally skip playing etudes? If that is you, I’m here to tell you to stop! Etudes are part of a rigorous practice session and reveal so much of what a musician needs to learn. Etudes can be the bane of your...
What to Do in a 30-Minute Practice Session

What to Do in a 30-Minute Practice Session

by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Dec 17, 2020 | Daily Routine, Etudes, FluteTips, Practice, Tone

No time? No problem? I’m talking about how to get a full practice session done in just 30 minutes. Life is rarely ideal by giving us all as much time as we want to practice. Instead, life is crazy busy. Whether it’s the job, family, too many classes and papers, or a...
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