Last month, I had a free lesson from a friend of mine who is a guitar teacher. It never ceases to amaze me how your ’email tips’ are pretty much spot on to what I happen to be struggling with or curious about.
FLUTE REPERTOIRE FRESHMAN HOW TO
It’s just learning how to think smarter so you can read flute music faster. One of the first things I always say is “Are you looking ahead?” The next time they play, the passage is usually ten times better! Is it a miracle? Sometimes yes, sometimes no (depending on their practicing). I have many students that have “rough days” when it comes to lesson time. Looking ahead and learning how to read music faster takes time and patience to learn, and you will learn it. Please don’t get down on yourself when it still isn’t up to what you believe “par” is. When you go to perform, you’ve already done it and you know what’s going to happen! Practicing the rests in your personal practice time is good because you’re practicing giving your brain the time it needs to tell your body what to do and to do it.
FLUTE REPERTOIRE FRESHMAN FULL
Getting your mouth and lungs ready and full of air so you have the sufficient pressure is ideal during a rest. You may have a really long high soft note you need to prepare for. During the rest (however long or short it may be), you can be thinking to yourself what you need to do to make the next “spot” as perfect as it can possibly be. Rests are not actual times where you stop playing or focusing on the piece… they are actually quite awesome for preparing for what’s going to come up (i.e. Once you’ve got the “looking ahead” part under control, there are things called rests that we need to zone into. You’ve already done it and you know what’s going to happen.
Whereas our eyes are right next to our brains and can be processed so that it can be sent out to our fingers and mouths.
The signal has to be processed and sent out to our arms, hands, and then fingers. But here’s the thing: our thinking is much faster than our motor skills and therefore, our fingers are naturally slower. Sometimes it can be tricky- having your brain see one thing and your fingers playing another. Learning to read ahead a couple notes while playing is key. Have you ever been playing the flute, reading music, and can’t catch up to the metronome, the piano accompaniment, or to who we may be “dueting” with at the time without mistakes? Then, you think to yourself, “I know I can play better than this!” or “Why can’t I play this faster?” Sometimes, our brains need to think smarter – not just by playing the notes in front of our eyes…
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