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 | 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 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 1, 2017 | Daily Routine, Practice, Technique, Tone
As I have written about before, bad days come. They are unwanted, unlooked for and, lets face it, depressing. I have never gotten a “get out of jail free card” when it comes to bad days. Believe me, I’ve had my share. The worst is when I put my flute...
by Dr. Angela McBrearty | Jul 18, 2017 | Practice, Tone
In our first third of our practice routine there is this pesky little thing I like to call TONE that needs to be practiced daily. So let me give you some suggestions of material to cover when working on this part of your practice routine. There are 3 books I use for...
