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Starting Your Child on Flute: How Young is Too Young?

By Liz Goodwin April 25th 2022April 25th 2022

Playing a musical instrument is amazing. It develops so many skills, and not just musical ones: it can build confidence, patience and self-reliance and can enhance verbal memory, spatial reasoning

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Pieces to Play Before Taking Grade 6 Flute

By Chris Hankin September 17th 2021September 15th 2021

There’s more to flute-playing than taking exams – these pieces will convince you to make space between the grades to explore new music. Dargomyzhsky and Tchaikovsky arranged Olga Ivusheikova: Two

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Special music for early grades players

By Chris Hankin June 4th 2021June 14th 2021

Ring the changes with these great albums that are sure to please. Alfie Pugh: Dioramas Book 1 for Flute and Piano This is a great book for young players just

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Finding resonance on the flute

By Roderick Seed September 16th 2020September 18th 2020

“How do I get a big sound?” is often a question students will ask. Indeed, developing one’s sound and dynamic range is part of a musician’s daily practice. So, apart

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Fluting the Covid Way

By Adam Clifford September 9th 2020April 19th 2022

Who in 2019 would have thought that 2020 would see the music profession having in-depth discussions about the risk levels of playing a wind instrument? Indeed, that there would be

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What does “support” mean?

By Roderick Seed March 19th 2020April 23rd 2020

As a teacher, I like to ask questions to my students to get them to think about what they are doing, as awareness is key to improvement and inhibiting bad

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Tips on ABRSM Grade 8 pieces: Poulenc Sonata 1st movement

By Roderick Seed January 20th 2020January 20th 2020

My next few blog posts will be tips on some of my favourite pieces from the ABRSM Grade 8 repertoire lists. Even if you aren’t working towards your Grade 8,

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So you want to be a piccolo player?

By Chris Hankin October 11th 2019June 25th 2021

Buying a piccolo is so exciting! It may be small in size but it is a powerful instrument, and eventually, you will be able to dominate everything! It can also be a very beautiful instrument and – in the right hands – an utterly magical one.

Chaminade Concertino – Practice Tips

By Roderick Seed August 30th 2019September 10th 2019

Following on from my Taffanel blog, here is a practice guide for another great French work: Chaminade’s Concertino. This piece is played a lot, but quite often with some important

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Taffanel’s Andante Pastoral et Scherzettino: A practice guide

By Roderick Seed July 31st 2019July 31st 2019

Taffanel’s Andante Pastoral et Scherzettino is a gem in the French flute repertoire and one of my favourites. Indeed, I played this piece for my entrance exam at the Royal

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