by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Feb 6, 2020 | FluteTips, Performing, Repertoire, Teachers
What do you say when you’ve just ended a performance and someone comes up to you and says: “Oh, great job!” And inside you’re thinking: “Ah, I wasn’t very good. I messed up here. I messed up there. I didn’t do this right. It’s not the...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Jan 30, 2020 | Double Tongue, FluteTips, Practice, Repertoire, Tonguing
Double tonguing is a double edged sword. It can sound fantastic or it can sound like a bunch of hens came out to peck for bugs. But there is hope for your double tonguing. There are ways to get your double tonguing in top form, and they don’t take forever to...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Jan 23, 2020 | Embouchure, FluteTips, Practice
It’s all well and good to practice flexibility when you work on exercises specifically designed for that purpose. But, do you work on it in the middle of your solo? Often times in when we are in the middle of a solo, right in the thick of it, the idea of moving...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Jan 16, 2020 | FluteTips, High Register, Intonation, Tone
One of the hardest things that we flute players have to deal with is our third octave. Our instinct is to close it right up. The embouchure gets smaller and the teeth move closer together because that helps us to control that upper register. Control is what you want...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Jan 9, 2020 | Daily Routine, Etudes, FluteTips, Practice, Tone
I’ve just come off the holidays as it’s been Christmas vacation. It’s been so massively busy that I haven’t gotten much good solid practice. I feel like even when I’ve played a lot of flute for various Christmas gigs, I still can get out...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Jan 2, 2020 | Daily Routine, FluteTips, Practice
I have been on holiday because it’s been Christmas vacation and there’s been so many activities in the entire month of December that I have felt like I have not gotten enough practice time. I’ve played flute with gigs. But we know that practicing and...
