num_pages: 112
description: A complete guide for anyone who plays the flute or ever wanted to. Use it along with flute lessons or even to teach yourself! This book covers everything you need and more -- selection and care, flute technique, fingering, playing by ear, reading music, flute history, flutes around the world, and modern folk flutes. "How to Love Your Flute" will appeal to all flutists, from beginning to advanced.////////////////////////////Mark Shepard is the author of "How to Love Your Flute," hailed by Paul Horn as "a model for our times," as well as the craft guide "Simple Flutes." He has played flute professionally in a folk music trio, as a modern dance accompanist, and as a solo theater musician.////////////////////////////CONTENTSPreface, by Paul Horn IntroductionPart 1 FLUTE LORE The World Family of Flutes The Story of the Western FlutePart 2 SELECTION AND CARE Finding Your Flute Caring for Your FlutePart 3 FLUTE TECHNIQUE Embouchure and Breath Posture Playing Notes More About Embouchure and Breath Fingering Technique Tuning Advanced Techniques Special EffectsPart 4 MAKING MUSIC Scales and Chords Playing by Ear Reading Music Living MusicPart 5 MODERN FOLK FLUTES Finding a Folk Flute Caring for a Folk Flute Playing a Folk FluteAPPENDIX How the Flute Works Miscellaneous Fingering Charts Reading List////////////////////////////SAMPLE TEXTQuestion: Should I take lessons, or instead teach myself?Answer: There are advantages to both ways. You may be a person who will benefit more from personal instruction than from reading a book. Or you may be the type of person who needs the deadlines of a scheduled lesson to get you to practice. If you are serious about performing classical music, you will want to become absorbed in a tradition that seems imparted best in a teacher/student relationship.There are also advantages to teaching yourself. Money and/or schedule constraints could be factors. You might prefer the freedom of organizing and pacing your own learning process. Or you might even have trouble finding a teacher with whom you work well, or who can teach you the kind of flute playing you want to learn.Whichever way you decide to go, don't let anyone tell you that you can't learn the flute without lessons.
language: English
title: How to Love Your Flute: A Guide to Flutes and Flute Playing, or How to Play, Choose, and Care for a Flute, Plus Flute History and More
titlecomplete: How to Love Your Flute: A Guide to Flutes and Flute Playing, or How to Play, Choose, and Care for a Flute, Plus Flute History and More
genres: Music
ratings_count: 21
publisher: Shepard Publications