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by Shade
Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:51 pm
Forum: Flute Playing and Practicing Basics
Topic: Holding the flute.
Replies: 3
Views: 4760

Holding the flute.

I've just recently started trying to learn the flute, and I thought the best way to go about it at first at least was to learn how to balance it correctly in the right way on the mouth/chin/lip area, index finger, an thumb. I figured I'd practice holding it this way until I could practically do it w...
by Shade
Tue Oct 24, 2006 5:24 pm
Forum: Flute Playing and Practicing Basics
Topic: Metronome evil annoyance or helful tool?
Replies: 39
Views: 50774

I find that metronomes are extremely useful to use AFTER you've got the basic idea of what you're playing and or for building up speed. When you're working through a passage of music for the first time, and especially when there's a lot of syncopated notes, it doesn't always do a whole lot of good t...