by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Mar 5, 2020 | FluteTips, Performing, Practice, Technique
Everyone has problems rushing. In life and in music. Rushing is what makes a passage not sound smooth as glass. It is what makes the fingers and tongue get out of sync with each other in a double tonguing passage. There are times where you don’t even know that...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Feb 27, 2020 | Flute Convention, FluteTips, Practice, Technique
In any flute journey there is always room to add something new. Anyone is bound to get bored with their routine after a certain amount of time. New exercises to work on the same old problems are always welcome in my book. With that in mind I want to bring up Marcel...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Feb 13, 2020 | Double Tongue, FluteTips, Practice, Tonguing
We have all been taught to tongue notes. This skill is learned from the earliest days of flute playing. We all have our way of single tonguing some of you have been taught one way, and some have been taught another way. But have you ever explored the idea that...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Jan 30, 2020 | Double Tongue, FluteTips, Practice, Repertoire, Tonguing
Double tonguing is a double edged sword. It can sound fantastic or it can sound like a bunch of hens came out to peck for bugs. But there is hope for your double tonguing. There are ways to get your double tonguing in top form, and they don’t take forever to...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Jan 23, 2020 | Embouchure, FluteTips, Practice
It’s all well and good to practice flexibility when you work on exercises specifically designed for that purpose. But, do you work on it in the middle of your solo? Often times in when we are in the middle of a solo, right in the thick of it, the idea of moving...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Jan 9, 2020 | Daily Routine, Etudes, FluteTips, Practice, Tone
I’ve just come off the holidays as it’s been Christmas vacation. It’s been so massively busy that I haven’t gotten much good solid practice. I feel like even when I’ve played a lot of flute for various Christmas gigs, I still can get out...
