by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Oct 5, 2024 | FluteTips, Performing, Practice, Repertoire, Vibrato
Do you plan the very first note of your solo performance? What you do with that first note is crucial. It sets the tone for the whole piece, literally and figuratively. Start with the Sound You Want Your goal is to have the first note come out with a fabulous tone,...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Sep 3, 2022 | FluteTips, Performing, Practice
We all have pesky problems in our music that are difficult to solve. We work on them and then that same problem comes back to haunt us again the next day. Do you have a method to fix these spots and more importantly, how is your method working? Sometimes you can go...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Aug 18, 2022 | Etudes, FluteTips, Performing, Practice
Concentration and stamina are two areas of flute playing that we all need to work on. These are skills that you can learn. I know that I can work on those too. These are things that I’ve learned later in my performing and teaching career. They’re not...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | May 19, 2022 | Daily Routine, FluteTips, Performing, Practice
When in a flurry of business how do you handle your practice time? Are you the type who runs through your solos hoping that it will keep you in shape and not lose ground? Hopefully you have watched some of my videos on a fast-but-thorough-warm-up. We always need to...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Feb 3, 2022 | Etudes, FluteTips, Performing, Practice
When you practice do you just play the notes on the page, or do you make music with those notes? It is okay to just play the notes on the page. But it is much more rewarding to make music with those notes. Finding the musical line in your music is a wonderful exercise...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Jan 20, 2022 | Etudes, FluteTips, Performing, Practice
A lot of times when we are warming up, we just play our exercises to get through them. We play them to warm up the lip, and to warm up the fingers. But we are not really thinking our way through them. Every time you have the flute up to your lip, you need to be making...
