Expand the creative breadth of your soloing! The step-by-step exercises and explanations in this tried-&-true resource will help you develop your ear and improve your technique. You'll learn the intimate relationships between modes and chords, practicing licks and solos that grow out of their underlying harmonies and sound natural. Andy McGhee has taught at Berklee since 1966, before which he toured with Lionel Hampton and Woody Herman. He has taught thousands how to improvise.
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Encourages the enjoyment of playing and music-making and is ideal for group or individual tuition.
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Easy and melodious exercises based on scales and arpeggios in all keys, with optional 2nd flute or piano accompaniment.
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This series of practice books by Trevor Wye serve as an invaluable addition to study for all flautists. Each book concentrates on a different technical problem covering all aspects of playing the instrument. Each book serves as a step-by-step guide with plenty of helpful exercises for all registers.
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Text in German and English
Preface • The Philosophy of Practice • 7 Golden Rules for Practising • 20 Basic Exercises: Breathing • Embouchure • Fingers I • Scales and Arpeggios • Registers I • Articulation • Tone • Fingers II • Registers I • Fingers III • Timetable (separate sheet)
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This is the ultimate beginner's pack for anyone who wants to learn to play flute. You get a great book with online audio plus a corresponding DVD that cover all the basics, including: How to assemble and care for your instrument, producing a sound, reading music notation and rhythms, a fingering chart, a glossary of musical terms, and much more. The audio includes recorded instruction as well as 74 full-demo tracks. Perfect for those who want to teach themselves or in a classroom setting.
Audio is accessed online using the unique code inside the book and can be streamed or downloaded. The audio files include PLAYBACK+, a multi-functional audio player that allows you to slow down audio without changing pitch, set loop points, change keys, and pan left or right.
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Having studied the flute with virtuosos Paul Taffanel, Adolphe Hennebains and Philippe Gaubert at the Paris Conservatoire, Marcel Moyse (1889-1984) soon became a virtuoso of the instrument himself. Etudes Et Exercices Techniques pour la Flute was the first of many popular study books from the renowned flautist. During his career, Moyse frequently played solo flute with many orchestras, including performing the main concertos of the repertory. As well as performing and composing, Moyse was responsible for the training of a brilliant generation of flautists at the Paris Conservatoire. Following WWI, the composer moved to the United States where he continued to perform, compose and teach. It is during his time in the USA that Moyse composed his extensive number of instructive books on instrumental technique, including Etudes Et Exercices Techniques, which today remain universally accepted and popular. Moyse's book is essential to all aspiring, advanced flautists.
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The 18 Studies by French flutist Benoit Berbiguier (1782-1838) are among his most often-played pieces. With a Flute 2 part composed by Carol Wincenc, based on the methods of Marcel Moyse.
“Wincenc and [assistant editor] Wangorn...have enriched the original with dynamics and articulation markings to help guide the student to an expressive and sensitive interpretation, while keeping the text closely with Berbiguier's original.”--The Flutist Quarterly
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Developing the essential coordinations to master circular breathing.
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Trevor Wye's acclaimed Practice Books for the Flute have now sold over one million copies and proved invaluable to players at every grade. Each book explores individual aspects of flute technique in concise detail. This revised edition features updated diagrams, clearer musical notation and improved overall design.
Book 3 – Articulation: Good articulation is an essential part of flute technique – it is the speech of music. This book provides a step by step guide to securing good articulation and covers slurring, single, double, and triple tonguing, problem notes, and overcoming nerves and anxiety.
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A book of skillfully organized daily practice routines for the flute. A versatile yet practical teaching tool for students of all levels.
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Published in 1933, Gammes et Arpèges, by the French flautist and composer Marcel Moyse (1889-1984), follows on from Exercices Journaliers (1922) and proposes a set of 480 exercises for intermediate flautists. A table at the beginning organizes the work setting 12 exercises per period of 30 minutes, and three types of exercises can be found: major scales, minor scales and arpeggios of three to four notes. Considered as a maestro by some musicians, Marcel Moyse has composed many flute methods and exercise books also published by Alphonse Leduc, such as Mécanisme-Chromatisme (1927) and De la Sonorité (1934). His methods are widely used and recognised worldwide.
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Since it first appeared in the 1930s, the concise, clear content of the best-selling A Tune a Day series has revolutionized music-making in the classroom and the home. Now, for the first time, C. Paul Herfurth's original books have been completely rewritten with new music and the latest in instrument technique for a new generation of musicians.
A New Tune a Day books have the same logical, gentle pace, and keen attention to detail, but with a host of innovations: the inclusion of audio tracks – with actual performances and backing tracks – will make practice even more fun and exciting, and the explanatory diagrams and photographs will help the student to achieve the perfect technique and tone.
Each Book 2 contains: easy-to-follow lessons on clear, uncluttered pages • tips for technique • improvising hints • audio with a virtuoso performance, backing tracks and audio examples • great music including duets and ensemble pieces • and a useful pull-out fingering chart.
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These delightful etudes by Ernesto Koehler (Op. 33) have endless benefits for an intermediate player. Each one succinctly addresses a particular idea – be it articulation, phrasing, or an expressive gesture – consistently throughout the etude. Thus their instruction is focused and, due to their brevity, a student can be assigned two to four a week. Consequently, the rewards are great!
Book 2 includes 12 Medium Difficult Exercises.
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A logical and thoughtful addition to the previously published 24 Etudes, Op. 15 of Joachim Andersen edited by Carol Wincenc and Bryan Wagorn, the Op. 33 set of 24 Etudes explores and solidifies the rudimentary building blocks found in Andersen's earlier opus. In this present edition, Professor Carol Wincenc and Bryan Wagorn continued in the tradition of Marcel Moyse, a pivotal mentor of Professor Wincenc. As a young boy, Moyse played for Andersen himself. In lessons, Moyse would accompany the student in these etudesby creating a counterpoint to the original study, often vocally improvising melodies and or lyrics. This edition contains a flute 2 part with counterpoint inspired by Moyse.
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