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What a Flutist Needs to Know Before Auditioning For a Community Band

Performing, Practicing the Flute / By Rebecca Fuller

There are more practicing musicians in the world than you even thought. It’s so fun when you find an opportunity to join some of them and make music together. But, before you do you might want to read today about what a flutist needs to know before joining a local community band. New musician friends are great, and a new posse of flute-buddies are even better. I have so many life-long pals from the endless …

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How Much Should I Practice The Flute

How much should I practice the flute? Great question! A musician can greatly improve their skills by adding extra practice sessions weekly or daily. So how much is enough? How much is too much? One might think that by working round the clock, a learning flute-player can quickly excel through the levels. The downfall to this is if the practicing musician is repeating with technical issues (aka: bad habits) then more practice will only make …

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How to Unlearn a Bad Habit in Flute Playing

Practicing the Flute / By Rebecca Fuller

Whether you’ve taken up learning how to play the flute on your own (as a self-taught learner) or through an instructor, it’s pretty safe to say that you’ve developed some problems in your playing. It kind of goes along with the territory, but no worries- today I’ll show you how to unlearn a bad habit in flute playing. Corrective Practice is the Answer There are many skills in this world. Some don’t matter so much …

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How To Prevent a Frustrating Practice

Practicing, Practicing the Flute / By Rebecca Fuller

I know you’ve probably heard of people beginning to learn an instrument when they are young and then quitting early on in the game. As I’ve researched the many different reasons why people stop playing, I’ve found that the most common reason is because of the dreaded word ‘practice’. Today let’s discuss how to prevent a frustrating practice. First, I want to share a question I was just asked yesterday from one of you online …

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How Another’s Talent Can Become Your Own

Great Performances, Practicing the Flute / By Rebecca Fuller

I know that just by reading the title of this article you are wondering, is it even possible to raise your talent abilities through others? In this article I want to discuss with you how another’s talent can become your own. Think back with me for a moment to when you were younger and you followed your mom or dad around everywhere they went. Maybe you watched your mom cook amazing foods or work outside …

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Tips for a Self-Learning Flute Player

Practicing the Flute / By Rebecca Fuller

One of my favorite things about all you flute learners is that you are all so motivated and self-driven. Here are some great tips for a self-learning flute player. Learning to play the flute well takes determination, and I know you have what it takes. The best thing about Learn Flute Online is that it helps self-motivated people like you to learn to play the flute correctly and on your own time. You get to …

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What are Long Tones?

Practicing, Practicing the Flute, Technique / By Rebecca Fuller

Recently I had a student email me and ask: “What are long tones? I know you recommend them to use in my warm-ups each day but I’m not sure exactly what they are.” First of all, I am so happy that a student asked me this question, because I consider long tones to be an essential part of warming up and how can someone use them to warm up if they don’t know what they …

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How To Deal With A Bad Day Of Practice

Practicing the Flute / By Rebecca Fuller

If you’re like most musicians, you’ll have awesome days of practice many times, and then sometimes it’ll just be… not so good. So, how to deal with a bad day of practice? Well, first of all it’s important to determine that things are just ‘off’ for you that day and not decide that this is the new reality that will be true foreverrrrr. There are a host of reasons things may not be going your …

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How To Progress Quickly On The Flute

Practicing the Flute / By Rebecca Fuller

Many students beginning on an instrument have hopes and dreams that they will discover they are a natural and learn rapidly. If you are one of these students, it’s a good idea if you take notes here to find out the tricks to learning how to progress quickly on the flute. 1. Start with a really good instrument that is in really good shape. Take this advice from someone who learned on subpar instruments for …

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Bad habits for flute players

Practicing the Flute / By Rebecca Fuller

What are considered to be bad habits for flute players? I think it’s safe to say that most instruments have a little list of ‘bad habits’, but what are they for flutists, and how can we avoid accidentally learning them? First of all, it’s important to recognize what the habit in question is exactly and then it’s even more imperative to understand what the ‘correct’ way is so that we can adjust it. These little …

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