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3 Beginner Flute Exercises for Tone and Control

3 Powerful Beginner Flute Exercises for Better Tone and Control

Practicing, Uncategorized / By Rebecca Fuller

3 Powerful Beginner Flute Exercises for Tone and Control Every great flute player starts with just a few simple skills. So no matter where you are right now, you can begin building those skills today with a few focused beginner flute exercises that make a big difference right from the start. I’ll make these instructions clear and easy to follow. Whether you’re just picking up the flute or revisiting it after some time away, these […]

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How to make 2024 a better year for your practicing

How to Make 2024 a Better Year for Your Flute Practicing

Practicing / By Rebecca Fuller

https://youtu.be/IoSanRN7EM4?si=2oywd6G-0FXuTxy2 How to Make 2024 a Better Year For Your Flute Practicing Here are six helpful tips for how to make 2024 a better year for your practicing. These include practical guidance, like making a daily goal to get to your instrument, and a few surprising tips too. Each item will help save you time, effort, and really boost your flute-health and happiness this year. Let’s get going! It sounds like an

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When You Don’t Have Time to Practice

Learn Flute Podcast, Practicing / By Rebecca Fuller

Learn Flute Podcast SHOW NOTES: In this episode, you will learn all about how you can keep up your flute practice schedule, even when you don’t have time! You’re going to love these tips and tricks. Learn Flute Podcast 126 Press the Play Button to Listen Now: Podcast Transcript Heyho there fellow fluties! Having a busy life for a minute or two and perhaps your regular flute practicing has been extremely difficult to get to

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How to be First Chair in Band

Practicing / By Rebecca Fuller

You are ready to show up and be an even better flute player than you are right now. Congratulations! Now, let’s get you to be first chair in band. Here’s a little blueprint to help you become the flutist who sits in the first chair position. It is more important to feel like a First Chair Flutist than it is to actually be one. First of all, I’ll give a disclaimer that occasionally it may

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The Benefits of Slow Practice

Practicing, Practicing the Flute / By Rebecca Fuller

What is slow practice? And how can it benefit me? Today in this article, I want to answer both these questions and go a little more in depth on the benefits of slow practice. Many of you know that throughout the Membership modules here at Learn Flute Online there is a wide variety of pieces to be studied and learned. I have created tunes that are simple, dramatic, quick, slow, loud, quiet, and fast. It

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How to Practice the Flute More Consistently

Practicing, Practicing the Flute / By Rebecca Fuller

As musicians we all know the dread that comes when we’re in the practicing slums. It’s not easy. We know that we need to practice our instrument, and really want to, but lack the motivation to do so. Therefore the question is raised “How do I find the motivation to keep practicing?” Through research and years of learning here are a few ideas that could prove helpful for you. Find Inspiration Have you ever gone

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3 Perks You Gain From Playing Your Instrument Daily

Practicing, Practicing the Flute / By Rebecca Fuller

The benefits of learning to play a musical instrument are many, but did you know that there are added bonuses when it happens more regularly? There are especially 3 perks you gain from playing your instrument daily. Playing every single day makes it so that you can relax more through your list of flute to-do’s instead of rushing and cramming it all in the day before your lesson. Relaxing is a must for flutists! Tension

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3 Tips to Help You Start Playing the Flute Right

Practicing, Technique / By Rebecca Fuller

Learning how to play the flute can bring you a lifetime of joy and fun. Here are the top 3 tips to help you start playing the flute right. Relax your new embouchure. Using just your head joint is the best way to accomplish this. No need to hurry onto the whole flute quite yet. Spend time learning how to relax your face while getting your ‘blow’ to work. It’s where the joy in music

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A Flute Skills Check Up: How Do You Rate?

For Parents, Practicing, Technique / By Rebecca Fuller

It’s time to gain a little reality on your music competence. Are you on the path to where you want to go? There are certain things you should be accomplishing to get to the point where playing the flute is easy and fun. Let’s do a flute-skills check-up: How do you rate? Novice Level: If you haven’t learned proper assembling and cleaning skills, for example, then it’s time you get there and know that your

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Stretches for Flute Players

Practicing, Practicing the Flute / By Rebecca Fuller

Just like an athlete stretches and warms up before a practice or a big game, flute players must also. In this article I want to share with you some good stretches for flute players that I use. Are any of you early-morning flute practicers? These stretches will be especially helpful for you as your body is still trying to wake up when you begin playing. Take some deep breaths. First is one that I call

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