Beyond Beginner Flute

Review the basics and essential don'ts for this class. Preview songs to be played later, including changing them and playing them up the octave.

Master beginner flute fingerings and note names for the tune a tisket a tasket, including a, a sharp, g, f sharp, e-flat pinky, and breath-driven practice.

Learn the beginner song Lightly Row by fingering the notes, review both parts, practice naming the notes, breathe with me, and then play the whole piece together.

Learn to play Mary Had a Little Lamb on flute, starting on B, with careful left-hand fingering, keeping fingers near the keys, and tonguing each note.

Master the beginner flute song wake up shake up by practicing notes g, f sharp, and d, with pinky up and finger positions, then play together and reach the octave.

Learn the beginner flute version of Go Tell Aunt Rhody by mastering the notes B, A, G, and D, and coordinating thumb, first finger, and pinky through guided practice.

Build on your beginner flute skills by reviewing basic elements and developing them to go beyond, focusing on tone development, posture, hand positions, long tones, and tonguing to strengthen attention.

Develop a clearer flute tone by maintaining a natural, relaxed embouchure, light mouthpiece pressure, and steady jaw spacing while using a mirror and practicing easy scales.

Improve your flute hand positions by aligning finger pads over the keys and keeping the wrist down, avoiding metal bars; practice five note scales in front of a mirror.

Learn to breathe with the stomach: exhale with the stomach against the backbone, stand tall, and expand the stomach to fill with air, not using the chest or shoulders.

Maintain a straight back to keep a straight air column, raise the flute to you with a slight head tilt, keep elbows bent, and sit on the chair edge.

Expand your flute range to the three octaves using the same fingering, then adjust the air angle at the strike edge to move from low to high notes.

Practice lightly row up the octave by starting with g, d, e and using the slur to the upper register. Breathe with me and try a duet with beginner class.

Mary had a little lamb up the octave by raising the airstream, widening the lips, and focusing your gaze to hit the high B with controlled breath.

Learn wake up shake up to reach the upper octave on flute, adjust beginner fingerings, and execute the G octave slur with a faster airstream.

Learn to move the airstream up to reach the higher octave by watching airflow in a mirror, adjusting jaw movement, and feeling the air rise with a hand test.

Develop control of the active slur to keep the same volume from the low note to the octave higher, not blowing harder.

Learn how breathing from the stomach and ribcage creates air support to improve your flute’s upper register. Practice proper breath control to make octave notes easier and have fun.

Explore the chromatic scale and learn flats, sharps, scales, and keys, then practice playing beginner tunes by ear in different keys.

Explore flats and sharps, and how they raise or lower notes in chromatic and scalar movement from G to G sharp, A, B flat, and C, with fingering.

Identify the key of F by its B-flat, and learn how key signatures on the staff after the treble clef signal major keys in beginner books.

Explore playing a beginner flute piece in the key of D and in E-flat. Read key signatures, master flats and sharps, and transpose to other keys.

Explore how scales use whole and half steps to form major and minor keys, master key signatures with flats and sharps, and practice scales for better finger patterns in pieces.

Master the g scale with f sharp, using correct fingering and tonguing from g to high g, then descend and breathe at the top, embracing no right or wrong approaches.

Begin the Bb scale on flute by starting on B-flat and mastering the fingering with pinky on E-flat; reach the high B-flat with a controlled airstream and tonguing.

Learn effective flute practice routines with warmups, scales, long tones, breathing focus, and daily review of beginner songs to build finger fluency in about 30 minutes.

Discover beginner books for flute, learn how to choose a suitable beginner book, and begin reading music with note flow and bar lines.

Advance beyond beginner flute by learning more songs, exploring different keys and scales, and refining practice methods to develop your skills.