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sometimes the problem is your fingers, not your tongue. have you tried reworking the passage all slurred? you'd be amazed at the little things that you don't catch when you put the articulations in. my teacher often makes me practice fast passages all slurred and then add the tongueing back in after...

thanks! i will def. look into the series that
you suggested. in the meantime (while i'm trying to get copies of that series)
i might start her off with an empty fletcher book that i have from years and
years ago.

here are a few pieces that tend to be crowd-pleasers: fantasie (faure), sonate for flute and piano (poulenc), concerto in G major (mozart) the following are my personal favorites, but they are harder for an audience that is not made up of flautists to relate to: sonate for flute and piano (hindemith...

for how long do you play? my jaw feels like that after 8-hr rehearsals. that is because it gets tired after about 4 hrs and it has to strain to keep my mouth in the right embrouchure position. if it starts to feel like that again, give it a rest and ice it. also, taking ibuprofen is really good to e...

yes, yes, and yes! i triple tongue when
confronted with fast triplet passages. i vary my tonguing syllables depending on
the nature of the passage. usually, though, i use ta-ka-ta.

i teach an 11-year old girl (my first student) and i was wondering if anybody knew of any good music theory books with which i could have her practice counting, reading notes correctly, and learning key signatures? i am having her use the Rubank Beginner Method at the moment for practice, but i am a...