by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Apr 15, 2023 | FluteTips, Practice, Technique, Trills
Have you ever just worked on your trills? There’s a really good exercise in Taffanel and Gaubert’s 17 Grande Exercises at the very end of the book that you can use to work on your trills and to learn your trills. But today I just want to talk about the fingers...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Aug 4, 2022 | FluteTips, Practice, Technique, Tone
The notes of high D (D6) to high E (E6) is often a really bad spot for creating glitches. We have to put down fingers and lift up others at the same time. It’s a tricky spot. Try it yourself and listen to the problems that are created by going back and forth between...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Aug 5, 2021 | Etudes, FluteTips, Practice, Technique, Tone
You are busy. You don’t have all the time in the world to practice – especially if you’re working a full-time job, and perhaps it’s not even in music. But you still want to improve, you want to get better. You come home and you have dinner to...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Mar 26, 2020 | Etudes, FluteTips, Practice, Technique
If you’ve never looked at Köhler’s Virtuosic Etudes Opus 75, you should. But, let me tell you what you’re getting into. First, they are a lot of fun to play! Second, they are not for the faint of heart! I really enjoy them because they do work a lot of...
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...
