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 | Jul 24, 2018 | FluteTips, Practice, Technique, Tonguing
Do any of you have trouble getting a triple tongued passage steady and even on all syllables? It’s quite an interesting conundrum that using the TKT KTK form of triple tonguing can be unsteady or uneven. However, using TK TK for double tonguing can be totally even....
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Jul 10, 2018 | Daily Routine, FluteTips, Practice, Technique, Tone
Did you know that practicing technique isn’t just about the fingers? I talk to my students with frequency about their practice time. I suggest that their technique practice should be tone practice at the same time. It’s what I do too. But I came to this...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | May 22, 2018 | Daily Routine, FluteTips, Practice, Technique, Tonguing
Do you practice articulation? I mean all sorts of different kinds of articulation? If not you should. Articulation is done by using the tongue, which is a muscle that needs to be exercised in order to work properly when called upon. If you are needing a fast tongue no...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | May 1, 2018 | Daily Routine, Eastman School of Music, FluteTips, Practice, Technique
Instead of merely playing a scale up and down – learn to interact with it. Get to know it by playing it in different patterns and forms. Once you’ve interacted with a scale, you’ll own it! You’ll be able to play in that key signature in any piece, in any solo, in any...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Mar 6, 2018 | Daily Routine, Finger Placements, Practice, Technique
That hideous thing called the glitch. That little thing that is the difference between flawless and imperfect. It separates the amateur from the professional. I remember listening to great flutists on recordings (you know back when the only way to listen was offline:...
