Welcome to a new Flute Friday/Sunday/Weekend! We return this week to another installment in the Practice Blueprints series. The Muczynski Sonata for Flute and Piano is a bizarre, but not quite off the tracks, genre of work that appeals to the budding flutist wanting to do something a bit different from the norm. Before diving…

Welcome to another (belated) Flute Friday! Let’s talk flute bags. Before I begin today’s blog, I just want let everyone know that I have not been sponsored by any of these companies for my opinions. I have watched numerous YouTube product “review” videos that are not true opinions at all but rather just nice things…

Welcome to a new Flute Friday! It’s time for another installment of Practice Blueprints. This week I will be discussing Francois Doppler’s Fantasie Pastorale Hongroise, a work that embraces the nationalistic vibe of the late Romantic era but also adds a bit of the famous French Flute School flair that we all know and love.…

Welcome to a new Flute Friday/Saturday! I have discussed goal setting and how to effectively organize practice time in previous blog postings, but I have not yet touched on the differences between effective and ineffective practice techniques. Numerous books have been published about the necessary evil of practice, covering topics from practice time management, playing…

Welcome to a new Flute Friday/Weekend! Most of us, at some point, will be asked to put together a sample recording of our playing. This may be in support of a college application, a masterclass audition, a job interview, or simply to entertain our friends and family. Often our primary objectives in these recordings are…