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Online Metronome

This website contains a metronome that is extremely useful for all instrumental students as an aid to practicing and developing consistent tempo.

http://webmetronome.com

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.