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I personally have been able to get up to a 4th octave C...

Thank you all for your advice... My mom is calling tomorrow to see if I can somehow schedule something different... But I told my director that I needed to drop out of county and she said absolutely not you need to change your time... I talked to my assistant director and she said that my director c...

I was accepted into an all girls college called Columbia College in South Carolina. They gave me $9000 in academic scholarships and now I have the chance to earn $2000 more in an interview. The problem is that I have all county band that same day. I also need to play for my scholarship audition. I c...

1) What group do you play for?(college band, marching band, for fun) Marching Band, Wind Ensemble, Flute Choir 2) What kind of flute do you play? Pearl Quantz Coda 3)What is your dream flute? Pearl Maesta 4)What flute players do you enjoy listening to? All.... 5) What is your favorite type of music ...

yes it is normal, I do it during marching season...

Yes I have th same book as the poster above.

It may not be you, it could be your foot joint keys are out of line... I had the same problem a couple of months ago.

I am a female....

I warm up using long tones, then I run through my scales and arpeggios, then I go through whichever etude I happen to be in Berbiguer, and then I do the same with whichever Anderson etude I happen to be in. I then work through my solos that my flute teacher has given me to work on for either that we...

I know here in SC, we have region and if you make the top 8 chairs for flutes, you get all state callbacks which in turn lets you try out for all state band.

For Chaminade, I played the beginning at around 66 bpm, the vivo at around 112 bpm, and the ending around 140 bpm. And btw it's Concertino not Concerto......

I can play sitting on my bed, standing, sitting on a chair but I am most comfortable standing while I play.

Everyone who I have talked that has majored in Music Education has said that learning piano is very important especially for your piano classes....

Last year for our Spring Concert, at the picc solo in Stars and Stripes all of the flutes in our Wind Ensemble pulled out piccolos. It was great, and very very loud.... 2 wooden piccs, and 6 marching piccs.... lovely...

My flute teacher's dog always sings with both of us and she only does it with us and none of my flute teacher's other students.