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...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Dec 19, 2019 | Embouchure, FluteTips, High Register, Low Register, Practice
Is your embouchure flexible?Does it adjust to the octave in which you are playing? The embouchure is an amazingthing. It has the ability to move and adjust to help us get the best tone. Theproblem comes when we don’t move the embouchure but leave it static. The...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Dec 12, 2019 | Embouchure, Extended Techniques, FluteTips
Have you ever practiced pitch bends? This is an extended technique that is utilized in contemporary music. Composers put pitch bends in their music for a particular effect. Pitch bends aren’t necessarily difficult to execute although bending up is...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Dec 5, 2019 | Daily Routine, Etudes, FluteTips, Practice
If you don’t have the practice book Seven Daily Exercises Op 5 by M.A. Reichert, you need to go out and purchase it. Mine has this nice yellow cover. True to its title, it contains 7 scale exercises – and they are great exercises. If you’re getting a...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Nov 21, 2019 | FluteTips, Practice, Tone
Do you have vibrancy in your tone? Do you know what it is? Vibrancy is something that I discovered when I was in college and I was listening a graduate student. I remember thinking that there was something different about their tone that I didn’t have. I kept...
