by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Dec 14, 2017 | FluteTips, Practice, Technique
If you’re not doing a steady diet of practicing your technique for a good part of your practice time, you need to start now. You need to add as much variety as you can in your technical practice, such as: Taffanel one, Taffanel two, four, and five. I like to...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Nov 14, 2017 | Daily Routine, Etudes, Practice, Technique, Tone
On a scale from 1-10 with 10 being the best, how would rate your practice time? Do you feel you get a lot accomplished with real quality time? Maybe? Maybe you are thinking “I wonder if my practice time is a 3?” Anyone right there? I believe you are not...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Oct 31, 2017 | Daily Routine, Etudes, Practice, Technique
Slow gets you fast faster. Say it again. Slow gets you fast faster. That will cure every technical ill you have. Do it! I’m doing it too! Doctor Flute
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Oct 24, 2017 | Daily Routine, Low Register, Practice, Support, Technique, Tone, Tonguing
Who has difficulty tonguing short articulations in the low register? Do you? Or you? Tonguing in the low register is a bear. It takes a lot of work to get that low register working at optimal levels, especially if it’s short articulations. Hello Cantabile et...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Sep 19, 2017 | Daily Routine, Practice, Technique, Tone, Vibrato
The proverbial stage is now set. Vibrato can begin. Frankly, when I teach vibrato for the first time, I give a demonstration of what vibrato sounds like in tone and then tell the student to go home and see if they can figure it out. I would say that more then 50% of...
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...
