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The main axiom of the second, enlightened, school is that there is a mountain of gorgeous, at least equally technically challenging MUSIC to be learned without recourse to inane exercises whose sole function is to bore the poor, miserable student to death. And the end result is that you can play th...

Number 8 makes a great party trick. It's always hilarious.

I also play the piano and guitar. I used to be really good at piano, in fact I've been playing for about 15 years, but the last couple of years my skill has fallen off quite a bit because I've been focusing most of my time on the flute. It makes me sad, because I wish I could still play the way I us...

One thing that I would suggest is to go to the websites of different colleges you are interested in and see what their requirements are. Make sure you're completely clear on that, because often they will have specific guidelines for what they want to hear. On my audition I had to play two contrastin...

The only thing that I've heard that is kind of similar to this cheek vibrato idea is sort of the idea of a higher vibrato used in conjunction with more air in the right cheek. I sometimes do that because the air in the cheek allows for a more open sound and more loose and flexible embouchure, and be...

Yes, fluteguy18, that's the concerto I'm talking about. Thanks for your suggestions! Also, I had considered writing my own cadenza, but if I do it will likely be more of a longterm project. I'd rather have something else to work on now simply because of time constraints, as I'll most likely be perfo...

Hi everyone. I hope this topic hasn't been done too much before, but I searched around and couldn't find anything so I figured I would ask. Does anyone have any favourite cadenzas for this concerto? I was looking up cadenzas for it on fluteworld and was faced with two pages worth of them, with littl...

Ahh, well that sounds interesting then. Will it be able to be edited by anybody, the way wikipedia is? In otherwords, will it be a trustworthy source of information?

So are you talking about modulation within a sequence? I'm still not entirely sure I understand. If you're talking about just normal modulation, and how to find the spot where a piece modulates from b minor to D Major, you would generally look at the harmonies presented. I would find the first insta...

Isn't that essentially the same thing as the New Grove dictionaries?

I'm not really sure I understand what you're asking. What do you mean by "work out" the key changes? What exactly are you supposed to do?

Thanks for the tips everyone! Hopefully this will go well!

Hi everyone. In a couple weeks in my master class there will be some younger students visiting, and each of us will be taking turns doing some pedagogical things with them. I have never done any teaching before whatsoever, so I was wondering if anyone had any tips on things that I could talk briefly...

Though I still struggle with nerves occasionally depending on the situation, I've found a few things that have helped. For one thing, practise the piece you are playing and make sure that you know it well enough and feel comfortable with it. If you aren't sure about certain sections, then that's jus...

1) What is your current association with the flute? (prof, hobby, band student, teacher, etc) I'm a flute major in University. I'm going into the second year of my music degree, though my third year of university. I've also started working on some arrangements and compositions for flute and piano, s...