by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Apr 18, 2019 | FluteTips, Intonation, Piccolo, Practice
Piccolos are a bear to get in tune regardless of whether you’re playing in a band, in an orchestra, or playing with a piano. Even if you have the most expensive piccolo money can buy, it still will have intonation problems. If you have a piccolo you are...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Apr 11, 2019 | Daily Routine, Embouchure, FluteTips, High Register, Practice, Support
We all want our third octave notes to be easier to play. But much of the time of those notes are difficult to get. You feel like you are blowing against a wall or there’s just a hiss that’s coming out or you are so tight that the tone barely squeaks out...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Apr 4, 2019 | FluteTips, Piccolo, Practice
Do you have a piccolo? Maybe you have just gotten one for a gift and finally your heart is cured of it’s ache? Are you asking yourself now what to do I do with it? Do you put to your lip and blow? If you haven’t gotten one yet but plan on purchasing stop...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Mar 28, 2019 | Daily Routine, FluteTips, Practice, Technique, Tone, Trills
We all want faster trills! I always felt that I needed to work on making my trills go faster because my fingers were not naturally fast. But how can we learn to trill faster when some of our fingers move faster than others? Train All of Your Fingers to Move Faster You...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Mar 21, 2019 | FluteTips, Piccolo
If I got a dollar for every time I’ve that before I’d have ….well… some money. But I have received this question on numerous occasions. The question more specifically, is whether you must learn to play the flute first, or can you just jump into...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Mar 7, 2019 | Embouchure, Extended Techniques, FluteTips
There are a lot of pieces being composed today that use the extended technique of bending your pitch. Sometimes it’s bending down and other times you bend up. It’s very easy to bend down it’s more difficult to bend it up. Here’s some keys to think about...
