by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Dec 30, 2023 | FluteTips, High Register
Have you ever played in band or orchestra, or played on a flute solo where you were aiming for some third octave note, high B, or B flat, and when you got there, you totally missed it? Maybe it cracked or didn’t come out properly. You moved on because probably...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Apr 1, 2023 | Embouchure, FluteTips, Harmonics, High Register, Low Register, Middle Register, Practice
You need to be thinking about your low register as the foundation for everything that comes above it. If your low register is thin and not filled out and rich, then your upper register is going to suffer. There are some things that you can do to work on your low...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Feb 18, 2023 | FluteTips, High Register, Support, Vibrato
How many of you feel like your third octave just does not have the same kind of resonance and excitement that perhaps your second and your first octave do? Learning how to “spin” your notes is one way to add that excitement to your high notes. We all need to work...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Dec 10, 2022 | Embouchure, FluteTips, High Register, Low Register, Middle Register, Support
When you play from a low C to a high C, just two octaves higher, what do you hear dynamically? Play it right now. Play from the low C all the way up the octaves to the high C. What do you hear? A lot of times what I hear from my students is they start off with a...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Dec 3, 2022 | Brands, Flute Purchase, Gear, Headjoint, High Register, Low Register, Tone
The Flute Center of New York sent me 4 different versions of the LefreQue Sound Bridge to test. I had a lot of fun testing them out on my professional flute as well as my daughters’ intermediate and beginner flutes. In this blog I will give you the results of my...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | May 6, 2021 | Breathing, Embouchure, FluteTips, High Register, Support
What really is faster air? Isn’t blowing hard the same thing? The answer to that is a resounding maybe! Or perhaps a weak it depends. Should they be the same thing? I can definitively say no they should not be the same thing. But sometimes they are the same, based on...
