How to Play the Flute Everything You Need to Know to Play the Flute

by Harrison, Howard

• ISBN13: 9780312288617
• ISBN10: 0312288611
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-02-09
• Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Summary

How to Play the Fluteis a new kind of flute tutor. It combines over fifty carefully selected musical pieces with illustrations, diagrams, and text to give students a full, clear explanation of the basics of flute playing. Progressing in easy stages,How to Play the Flutetakes one from simple melodies to the music of Bach and Scott Joplin. How to Play the Flutecovers all the basics, including: Purchasing and caring for your instrument Reading music Breathing techniques Improving tone Howard Harrison is a freelance composer, teacher, performer, and writer. He lives in Exeter, England. How to Play the Fluteis a new kind of flute tutor. It combines over fifty carefully selected musical pieces with illustrations, diagrams, and text to give students a full, clear explanation of the basics of flute playing. Progressing in easy stages,How to Play the Flutetakes one from simple melodies to the music of Bach and Scott Joplin. How to Play the Flutecovers all the basics, including: Purchasing and caring for your instrument Reading music Breathing techniques Improving tone

Author Biography

Howard Harrison is a freelance composer, teacher, performer, and writer. He lives in Exeter, England.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(2)
PART ONE: Basics	3	(25)
Your flute	4	(2)
How the flute makes a sound	6	(1)
Shaping the air-jet	7	(2)
Making the first sound	9	(2)
Breathing	11	(3)
How music is written down	14	(7)
Reading music	21	(2)
Holding the flute	23	(4)
Fingering diagrams	27	(1)
PART TWO: Playing the flute	28	(66)
The note B	30	(1)
The note A	31	(1)
The note G	32	(3)
The slur	35	(1)
The notes C, F	35	(3)
The note Bb (A#)	38	(2)
Centreing the flute	40	(2)
The note F#(Gb)	42	(1)
Tonguing	43	(2)
The note E	45	(2)
The tie	47	(2)
The notes D, low D	49	(2)
Some help with the lower notes	51	(1)
The notes low C#(Db), low C	51	(4)
The notes Eb(D#), low Eb(D#)	55	(1)
More tone improvement	56	(5)
The note C#(Db)	61	(2)
The note G#(Ab)	63	(1)
A recap on tone quality	64	(2)
The second register	66	(1)
The notes E, F (second register)	67	(5)
The notes F#(Gb), G, G#(Ab), A (second register)	72	(2)
Harmonics	74	(3)
Staccato	77	(2)
Dynamics	79	(8)
The notes A#(Bb), B, C, C#(Db) (second register), D, D# (Eb), E (third register)	87	(7)
PART THREE: Going on	94	(1)
Where to go from here	95	(1)
Unfamiliar rhythms	96	(1)
Vibrato	97	(2)
Some special effects	99	(2)
Musical terms	101	(1)
Fingering chart	102
Supplement of guitar and piano accompaniments at end of text