by Dr. Angela McBrearty | May 4, 2019 | Daily Routine, FluteTips, Practice, Practice with Me, Technique
Have you started practicing your triplet scales yet? If you haven’t, you absolutely must add this technical scale exercise to your regular practice session. When I practice triplet scales I play through all of them. I begin with C, and travel the circle of 5ths....
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Apr 25, 2019 | Daily Routine, Embouchure, FluteTips, Harmonics, Tone
In a previous blog/video I’ve talked about practicing harmonics by playing Reveille and the very positive effect this can have on tone. Now, I’m revisiting harmonics with a new exercise that will help to increase resonance in your tone. Match Pitch to the...
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...
