by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Oct 31, 2019 | Embouchure, FluteTips, Practice, Tone
Do you know that a tight embouchure is not what will give you the best tone? I think most of us know that is not the way to play. But I have experienced that students don’t know what a tight embouchure actually means and have no idea how to loosen that...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Oct 24, 2019 | FluteTips, Practice, Tone
We all have those times where we’re discouraged with our tone. Whether you are in college or just starting out on the flute, whether you’re an adult or just beginning the flute. There are times when you think your tone is never going to get better. Well...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Oct 17, 2019 | Etudes, FluteTips, Practice, Tone, Tonguing
When I’m out of shape or taken some time off from practicing, I do a lot of single tonguing to get back into shape fast! It is truly amazing how single tonguing can get you back on the path to tone. Single tonguing does a couple of things. It forces your sound to come...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Oct 10, 2019 | Embouchure, FluteTips, Performing, Tone
There’s a lot of discussion out in the world today in the flute world about the sound that you should have and the style of which you should play Baroque music. I am not the world’s best expert at stylistic performance. Although I think I’ve got it...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Jun 6, 2019 | FluteTips, Low Register, Support, Tone
We all want to get our low register notes to respond right away. But oftentimes they don’t. They come out as a big puff of air, or there is a delay before the sound responds. This is especially a problem for the low C. The best way that I found to work on...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | May 30, 2019 | Breathing, Daily Routine, FluteTips, Low Register
When we play our low register, we want it to be rich and full! We want to be able to play softly and loudly. The exercise that I like best to work on in the low register is found in De la Sonorite by Marcel Moyse. I’ve have used this book so much that it’s tattered...
