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Cyberflute, I loved the duet section on your website - what a fun idea!! Great site.

No problem!

Hi Tom, I hope one of these will help you out:

published by Kal

published by SZ

The links go to Jonathan Myall Music (formerly known as Just Flutes) which is based in London. Hope this is what you're looking for!

haha that's what I get for playing Schumann all day on piano today! LOL thanks for that correction (and hi there!)

You might want to check out www.podbean.com - it's free, you can upload audio there and link to it.

Tom, for great flute pieces with amazing piano parts, my favorites are: - the Liebermann Sonata - the Burton Sonatina - Schumann's Introduction and Variations On A Theme From "Die Schone Mullerin" (the piano and flute take turns being the "soloist" in the variations... odd variations is one, even va...

That's great Camille!

I prefer flutist... and I love the brief little chapter on this in Nancy Toff "The Flute Book"

I'd like to add -- practice these with a tuner. The tendency is for the pitch to go flat as you get softer... so watch the tuner as you decrescendo and try to counteract that tendency with extra support and gradually aiming the airstream a bit higher.

Phineas wrote:Purple flutes match your shoes, but it may not sound or play as good as an old tarnished Haynes.

LOL! For some reason that line really had me giggling.

I had the shoulder pain thing too, at the same time I was dealing with my hands and wrists... like flutepicc06 said, it really shouldn't be that way. My teacher did wonders helping me learn to stand/play/hold the flute correctly and now, when I feel pain, I know it's because I'm doing something wron...

I went through a period of having similar issues... for me, it was a combination of playing on a flute with an in-line G (I have tiny hands and that's a really difficult reach for me) AND just overall tension due to various things such as not holding the flute properly, the flute not being balanced,...

I think with any method book, there are places where it seems to progress too quickly. Personally, I never teach from a method book alone -- I tend to supplement it with other exercises, short pieces, etc. along the way. It makes those jumps seem like little hops instead.

Sinebar, if you've only been on those exercises a week or two, maybe stick with it just a little bit longer and see if you can't figure them out. Try using a metronome and going through the exercises very slowly, gradually increasing the metronome marking as you have success. If you've been on these...

Very cool, I'm glad to hear you're enjoying it so much! I'd love for you to post some sound files, if you get a chance sometime.