The Flautist
The Flautist is a resource for flute players and teachers.
The Flautist is a resource for players and teachers with tools and techniques to create a beautiful tone and expressive playing style. This can be taught. The formula comes from my over 50 years playing, teaching and learning from some of the greatest flautists on making the flute a musical voice. How we connect with the instrument affects how we produce a sound and express ourselves.
Anyone can play the notes, the tone, it is not so easy
Eileen is one of the greatest flute pedagogues that I have ever studied with. She is an absolute master when it comes to understanding and applying the fundamentals and core principles of flute playing. Eileen’s extensive knowledge is beautifully catalogued on this site with recordings, informational posts, and “mini lessons” on everything from harmonics to Moyse 24 Melodious Etudes. I have a membership and use it every single time I practice. It’s absolutely brilliant and has taken my playing to another level!
Play Videos some examples:
Somewhere Over The Rainbow – Harold Arlen and Yip Harburg
Albert Roussel – Pan Joueurs de Flute
J S Bach – Partita in A Minor BWV 1013 Allemande
Play Music Albums, Some examples:
Carl Reinecke – Sonata in E minor Op. 167 “Undine”
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Passion & The Flute
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Chaminade Concertino Op 107
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Always With Feeling
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Read and Listen to the Blogs
Tone: Why is it important and what are the fundamental ingredients of a beautiful sound.
Exploring The Space Between The Notes
Stephen Preston on Baroque Performance
24 Little Melodic Studies by Marcel Moyse: No. 1
Story Telling in a Flute Performance
The Flautist Playing Guides available by subscription:
- Start with The Foundation Tools – A must for every flautist to work through. This is where we find the speaking point, get relaxation and flexibility, develop harmonic structure to the sound and learn to shape the mouth and use words to produce a beautiful tone.
- 24 Little melodic Studies by Marcel Moyse. This is where the player learns and cements crucial expressive skills and control as well as articulation, key colour and tonguing techniques into their playing.
- Tone Development Through Interpretation by Marcel Moyse is a method of improving one’s musical tone by actively studying and applying the expressive elements of a piece of music, such as dynamics, phrasing, vibrato, and timbre, essentially using interpretation as a tool to refine one’s sound.
- Vocalisations- for the flute refers to a practice technique where a flautist essentially “sings” through the instrument, using vowel sounds and phrasing similar to singing, without actually producing vocal sounds, to improve their tone, expression, and connection to the musical line, essentially mimicking the human voice on the flute; it’s often used as a warm-up exercise to develop a more natural and expressive sound.
- Playing guides – Utilising the extensive experience of the many years of study and teaching to create playing guides to a huge range of flute repertoire available to you in a step by step process. The guides will assist you to utilise all the Foundational work on the website to play flute repertoire with a beautiful tone, intonation, musical insight and expression.
Free Examples of the Playing Guides below:
Guide to Peter Tchaikovsky – Lensky Aria
Guide to Marcel Moyse – Tone Development Through Interpretation No. 33
Guide to Edward Elgar – The Serious Doll
Guide to Vocalisation – A Great Warm Up Tool
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