![]() ![]() ![]() It's also very important not to feel strained or massively out of breath. It's not important to go fast or to get to the top note your very first time. Play these scales slowly, stopping and pausing on any note just when you're just starting to feel out of breath, then breathing and restarting on the note you stopped on. Start working these few scales very carefully by first warming up your longtones (while you're waiting for the download and printer) and then concientiously apply your best tone to learning these few scales by heart. Think to yourself: If I already knew these scales by heart, and played them beautifully, I could SIGHT-READ these pieces of music much much faster without so much hard work learning note-by-note.įirst, download a PDF of either basic major and minor flute scales in two octaves or some basic highschool level scales. What do you see? Tons and tons of scales that make the music beautiful and flowing and emotive. ![]() To prove the truth of this to yourself, have a look at the PDF free version of the Mozart Concerto in C+ for flute and harp, or at any piece by Haydn, Bach or, even more modern composers. Why? Because real music is chock a block full of beautiful scales (not ugly horrible ones >), and if you play the scales wonderfully, you'll play at lest 75% of any piece of music wonderfully. What many band students don't at first realize is that it's not just a question of knowing scales and being able to whip them off it's a question of playing them absolutely breathtakingly beautifully, just as though they are a piece of real music. If you've never studied scales before, a good place to start is with the help of a private flute teacher. ![]() Hi, I'm a highschool student, and I've played flute in the band for three years, and I have an all-state audition coming up where I have to play scales as part of the audition. ![]()
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