by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Sep 5, 2017 | Daily Routine, Practice, Teachers, Tone, Vibrato
Anyone here have trouble developing vibrato or developing vibrato in your students? It is one sticky wicket. As a teacher, I can’t see into my student’s throat to actually see what’s going on. But, there’s no single exercise that creates a...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Aug 29, 2017 | Daily Routine, Practice, Technique
What do you do to improve your technique? Do you play the plethora of scale exercises? Technique books – there’s a myriad of them too. So How do you know which ones to use? Every teacher you have ever had, has a different favorite. Is one better then the...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Aug 25, 2017 | Finger Placements, FluteTips, Practice
Why is the lowly first finger a problem? Because often that first finger is down for our D and our Eb, and it shouldn’t be. The only time your first finger is down for D is when it’s below the staff, low register and Eb. When you’re on the 4th line D, or Eb on the 4th...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Aug 22, 2017 | Daily Routine, Low Register, Practice, Support, Technique, Tone, Vibrato
The most monumental concept that I learned about support is when I finally understood this one thing: Support = Pressure It is an equation that I could understand. When put into those few words, it all made sense to me. Now some of you will say “of course,...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Aug 15, 2017 | Daily Routine, Practice, Support, Technique, Tone
SUPPORT. It’s one of my biggest pet peeves. I’ve heard about support my whole life and it was many years into my flute playing life when I figured out what it was all on my own. Too many teachers don’t have a clue how to teach this concept. They use...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Aug 8, 2017 | Daily Routine, Finger Placements, Practice, Technique
How do you put your fingers on the keys? Do you keep them low or do you allow them to be above the keys? How about that G# pinky finger? Does that one stay on the key or does it hang below? We all can agree that fingers that stay close to the keys are more efficient....
