AUBREY'S FLUTE LESSON

April 30, 2024

Your assignment is:

- Practice Misty Mountains for the recital - LISTEN to the recordings of this melody A LOT and also practice along with the recordings. You know how to slow down the YouTube track to 0.65 speed for practice.

- Remember the warm up on long tones that we did today? Do this every day; also practice octaves as part of your long tone warm-up

We'll pick back up with these regular assignments after the recital:

- Scale sheets from EXERCISES section below

- Review Standard of Excellence p. 18-19; move on in the book if you're cool with p. 18-19

- Here's a new Playlist for your to check out!

Cool Old Jazz Tunes

Exercises-

Practice the chromatic scale from this sheet (and sit at review at the piano keyboard if you can):

Chromatic Exercises for Flute.pdf

Misty Mountains flute bottom

00:00 / 01:37

Misty Mountains flute both parts

00:00 / 01:37

Listen to this video of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong playing It Don't Mean a Thing. This video is in the same key as the pdf sheet - the main melody starts at :56 into the video - try to play along!

It Don't Mean a Thing (g-).pdf

-Ye Olde Stuffe-

Spooky_Scary_Skeletons_(flute).pdf

AUBREY'S FLUTE LESSON

Exercises-

Practice the chromatic scale from this sheet (and sit at review at the piano keyboard if you can):

Practice from m. 91 - the end:

Practice from the beginning through the end of p. 1:

We'll get to these soon:

TUNES-

Listen to this video of Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong playing It Don't Mean a Thing. This video is in the same key as the pdf sheet - the main melody starts at :56 into the video - try to play along!

-Ye Olde Stuffe-