»Award-Winner of the National Flute Association's Newly Published Music Competition« The Blocki Flute Method Book 1 is an award-winning method designed to the give beginners an excellent foundation in beautiful tone, embouchure flexibility, rhythm and technique. This comprehensive and step-by-step approach was written to ensure success and also includes theory and composition projects. The method is designed so students can play in both octaves without having to read the notes in both octaves. This is an incredibly important aspect of teaching beginners. The Blocki Flute Method's unique approach to teaching Five-Note patterns has proven to consistently help even the youngest students develop exceptional technical abilities. Five-note patterns are used as the foundation for teaching new notes, technique, moving between beat levels, simple transposition and fun and easy ear training. Because of the combination of a systematic approach to note reading, fun composition projects, ear training games, and basic theory, this book is also an excellent supplementary book for Suzuki students. As of August 2010: The Blocki Flute Method has been completely updated with the Third Edition. Listen to Samples Katelyn After One and a Half Years of Lessons - YouTube Video What's New in the Third Edition? After using the method for over 10 years, we knew which pieces the students loved and which one were just "okay." Anything that was just "okay" has been replaced with kid tested exciting pieces. There are many new duets and since students love trills we've included many more. These trills have transformed boring octave exercises into motivating pieces such as Half Pipe Stunts, Trampoline Tricks, and Bungee Jumping A's. Other new favorites include the Yankee Doodle Theme and Variations, The Sad Singing Swan, and the Daring Detective.

Abracadabra Flute has become a classic in the market, and here is a brand new edition. The cover has been redesigned, the music re-set, and new illustrations commissioned. Some new material has been added, supplying extra help where new notes are introduced and reinforcement exercises for tricky corners. As well as the new edition, there is now a CD available. Performed by professional musicians, it demonstrates each piece on flute with piano accompaniments from our book Abracadabra Flute Piano Accompaniments, enabling the pupil to hear how the pieces sound. Such a CD is invaluable for ensemble experience, and offers all the fun of playing with an accompaniment - perfect for home practice and concerts alike.

A fun book of pieces and advice for flautists preparing for grades 1-3. Covering areas including tone, articulation, and finger work, Abracadabra Flute Technique helps flautists build the solid technical foundation needed for successful exams and star performances - all through great music. The book features popular pieces in a variety of styles: Disney favourites such as 'Beauty and the Beast' and 'Feed the Birds', well-known classical melodies by composers including J. S. Bach and Beethoven, and familiar traditional melodies. The CD includes performances and backing tracks.

An excellent primer for those with little or no experience playing the flute Always wanted to play the flute? Are you a former flautist who wants to refresh your skills? Flute For Dummies is the guide for you. Following along with the book's accompanying CD, you will learn the nuances of playing the flute as an accompanying instrument or for playing a solo, in a variety of musical styles. Readers will learn how to play, step-by-step – from the correct angle for blowing into the mouthpiece and controlling pitch, to proper breathing, creating vibrato, and much more The book's accompany CD allows readers to play what they are learning, and listen to the accompanying track to see if they're getting it right Karen Moratz is Principal Flutist with the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and Artist in Residence and Adjunct Professor of Flute at the School of Music/Jordan College of Fine Arts at Butler University Easy-to-understand methods and instructions make learning to play this beautiful instrument as simple and straightforward as possible!

Recorder From The Beginning: Pupil's Book 1 (2004 Edition) is the full-colour revised edition of John Pitts' best-selling recorder course. The eight extra pages in Book 1 have allowed for some new tunes and rounds, whilst retaining the well-known favourites that have helped to make the scheme such an enduring success. This is the book we all learned from as children and is still, successfully, teaching today's youth how to play the Recorder.

(Music Sales America). Trevor Wye's acclaimed Practice Books for the Flute have now sold over one million copies and proved invaluable to players at every grade. Each book explores individual aspects of flute technique in concise detail. This revised edition features updated diagrams, clearer musical notation and improved overall design. This omnibus edition of all six books in the Practice Book series is invaluable for both amateur and would-be professional players. Together these books form a complete reference guide for players who are looking to overcome technical difficulties, and who are seeking advice on how best to practice.

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Beginner- Preliminary Flute method

This is the full eBook version of Flute Basics (Pupil's Book) in fixed-layout format. Sally Adams's Flute Basics series is widely regarded as the leading method for beginner flautists and their teachers. This new edition of Flute Basics (Pupils Book) with accompanying online audio offers a fresh design, clear technical drawings, fun illustrations, new activities, fingering chart and of course all of the great tunes featured in the original Flute Basics. Starting at absolute beginner level and progressing to about Grade 2, it contains a wide range of repertoire, including original pieces and well-loved favourites from every genre, warm ups and fun original exercises, invaluable fact files, quizzes and technical advice covering notation, general musicianship and care of the instrument, helpful fingering diagrams and rhythm boxes duets throughout. Also includes online audio containing piano and flute accompaniments to play along with. Contents: A Head Start: Twinkle Twinkle Little Sputnik; Head Joint Harlequin; Pavane (Faure); Head-Joint Hobo; Stage 1: Goose And Gander, Bread And Butter; Girls And Boys And Grandma; Eine Kleine Nachtmusik (Mozart); Aria; Stage 2: A Musical Box; Hebrew Melody; Midnight Tango; Icacato; Compact Chorale; Stage 3: Mysterious Madrigal; March Of The Marsupials; Au Clair De La Lune; Celtic Lament; Stage 4: Warm-Up; When The Saints Go Marching In; Blue Boogie; Under A-Rest; Jingle Bells. Stage 5: There s No Escape; Wallie s Waltz; Lotus Flower; Stage 6: Figaro s Tune (Mozart); Play It Again Bob!; Arabian Nights; Stage 7: Warm-Up; Spooks; Suo-Gan; A Tuna Day; Strangers In The Night; Stage 8: This Way And That; Crooked Calypso; The Song Of The Volga Boatmen; Harem Dance; Stage 9: Seedy Blues; All Tied Up; Daisy Bell; Chinese Lanterns; Stage 10: I Like Bread And Butter; Blue Riff; The Roamin Gnomes; Clown Dance; Stage 11: Warm-Up; The First Nowell; Concert Pieces: Awake My Love (Brahms); Strawberries And Cream (Harris); Cowdrey: A Road To Somewhere; Free As A Bird (Wedgwood); Stage 12: Easy Does It; Shortnin Bread; From Neasden With Love; Stage 13: Feelin Funky; Feelin Fine; Great F ort Required; Quelle Est C est Odeur Agreeable?; Rest Assured; The Can Can (Offenbach); Jazzmin s Waltz; Stage 14: Gorgeous George; Groovin Grannies; Gymnastic Gerbils; Slane; Minuet From Alcina (Handel); Wistful Waltz; Stage 15: The Earwig Etude; Spooky Moment; All Through The Night; Morley: You Rang-A-Tango; Stage 16: The Energetic Eccentric; The Elegant Elephant; The Envious Envelope; Scarborough Fair; King Tut s Tap-Dancing Team; Fur Elise (Beethoven); Stage 17: The Adventurous Acrobat; The Animated Apeman; The Angelic Apricot; Rondo From Horn Concerto No.4 (Mozart); Stage 18: Rumpty Tumpty; Theme From The Archers (Wood); Gymnopedie; When Alan Met Sally; Stage 19: Gout: Playtime Rag; Emily s Half-Term Blues. Stage 20: Greensleeves; Theme From Blackadder (Goodall); Jack's Maggot; Concert Pieces: Spanish Lullaby (Cowdrey); Menuett; No3. From Four Irish Dances; La Foret Argentee.

The complete instruction tutor for the flute. Takes you through the basic techniques and allows you to progress to an advanced stage of playing.