by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Dec 18, 2018 | Daily Routine, Finger Placements, FluteTips, Practice, Technique
Do you like to play flute fast? Who doesn’t? It is one of the joys of playing flute. We get to have fast fingers and it’s a lot of fun. Not all instruments get to have this kind of fun. Our brass counterparts can try. But alas their instruments are not...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Dec 4, 2018 | FluteTips, Practice, Tone
The Moyse Short Tones! Are you one of those people that bow in reverence when the name of Moyse is invoked? If so you are not alone. That man wrote so much that is extremely helpful to us flutists. Trevor Wye says that he was paid to write an exercise book every...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Oct 16, 2018 | Extended Techniques, FluteTips, Practice
A tongue ram is an interesting technique. And it does sound pretty cool when you do it. I’ve been working on the Tongue Ram for a piece that I played at the National Flute Convention in Orlando, Florida (#NFAFlute2018) called On a Poem, Harvard Square by Miho...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Sep 25, 2018 | Etudes, Practice, Technique
That’s no joke. When my teacher had finally and fully impressed upon me the importance of etudes in my development as a flutist, I decided to treat them like solos. I worked hard and quickly began to learn much more about music, including concentration, phrasing,...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Sep 6, 2018 | FluteTips, Practice, Technique
If you don’t have the Moyse book Daily Exercises you need it. It has the same size and shape of Taffanel and Gaubert: short and wide. I didn’t discover this book until later in my college life. Someone had left it in a practice room so read through it....
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Aug 21, 2018 | Extended Techniques, Flute Convention, FluteTips, Practice
Pizzicato Tonguing is really just tonguing without sound with your tongue making the sound in between your lips. It’s indicated in music like what you see on the left. This is from a piece of music I just performed at the NFA convention a couple weeks ago called...
