Welcome to the New Year’s Day edition of Flute Friday. Happy 2016 Everyone! Last year at this time I wrote a blog about setting New Year’s Playing Resolutions that was very helpful not only for myself and my own flute playing goals but also for many of my readers. See https://racheltaylorgeier.org/2015/01/14/new-years-flute-playing-resolutions/ . Over the course…

Welcome to Flute Friday! As I am currently in bed suffering from the traditional pre-holiday winter cold, I was inspired this week to discuss one of the most common performance related conditions: Tendonitis. Sometimes referred to as “tennis elbow” or “golfer’s elbow,” Tendonitis is an inflammation or irritation caused by microscopic tears of the tendons (tough, flexible, fibrous bands of tissue that…

Greetings and welcome to another Flute Friday. I thought that with all of the recent horror happening around this world, today would be a good day to simply laugh (and not just at Donald Trump’s antics). The following are my Top 10 favorite flute memes on the internet. Do you have a favorite meme? Please…

Welcome to another Flute Friday (posted on Saturday….). Solo and orchestral works are often riddled with passages that fall well under the fingers when played on a piano but do not translate well to the flute, particularly in the high register. We drill these passages in the practice room in military boot camp style to…

Happy Flute Friday! Today’s topic is dedicated to those of you struggling with crazy technical passages and pieces written in never-ending chains of 16th notes. How do we practice music that simply does not sit well under the fingers? Is practice and daily repetition the answer?  One solution, of course, is to use some crafty trick…