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Greetings and welcome to a new Flute Friday/Saturday. Today’s blog is about short cuts. Some may refer to these as trick fingering suggestions, but I have never really liked the term “trick fingerings.” We aren’t pulling rabbits out of a hat or searching for quarters behind ears. We are simply devising alternatives for physically difficult…

Greetings and welcome to a new Flute Friday. I was reorganizing my sheet music collection last weekend and found something quite intriguing. Shuffled between the pages of a piece that I had not played in several years was a copy of a letter of recommendation from a former teacher. Well….recommendation is not quite the right…

Greetings and Welcome to a new Flute Friday/Sunday. Before I launch into today’s blog, I just wanted to let everybody know that my November 2017 Flute Horoscopes have been published in the November volume of The Flute View Magazine! What does November hold for your flute playing? Check them out here: http://thefluteview.com/2017/11/dr-gs-november-flute-horoscopes-rachel-taylor-geier/ When I was…

Greetings and welcome to a new Flute Friday/Saturday. Happy Halloween! We all know that Taffanel and Gaubert’s 17 Daily Exercises is the Holy Grail of all scale books. Most of us have drilled Exercise #4 over, and over, and over again to practice everything from articulation to rhythmic variations and even pitch bends. It is…