Missett, Christopher: Band
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- Flute Information
- Web Resources for Students - Flute
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- Web Resources For Students - Trumpet
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Web Resources for Flute Online Metronome
This website contains a metronome that is extremely useful for all instrumental students as an aid to practicing and developing consistent tempo.
Flute Student Web Resources - Education
Here are two websites that give short histories and descriptions of the flute you will be playing as well as other members of the flute family:http://musiced.about.com/od/beginnersguide/a/partsofflute.htm
http://www.playmusic.org/woodwinds/index.html
Make sure you have your parents' permission to look at these YouTube links!
Producing a steady, clear tone on the flute is one of the most difficult skills to master in all of instrumental music. To supplement the instruction available in our 40-minute, once a cycle group lessons, I recommend the following YouTube video to help students produce and maintain a good flute sound. Flute students cannot practice this basic skill often enough:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7e4hqPJz8I
Flute Student Web Resources - Performances
Here is a beautiful performance of Debussy's Sonate for Flute, Harp and Viola by the New York Harp Trio:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRzWGIhwWAI
This performer has mastered playing the flute while beatboxing. He does an extraordinary job on this jazz classic:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meR5nk8WaLE&feature=relmfu
Thanks to Joseph Lee, SHS Class of 2010, for help with finding these web resources.