Videos of Flutist's Body Mapping

Dear Flutists,
An incredible resource: Videos on youtube, and a new DVD from the authors of "Body Mapping", instantly utilizable for flutists/pianists and other musicians.

Take a look at these sample videos from the DVD:

Hands:



Elbows:



Forearm tendons:



Shoulders hanging from collar bones:




Lungs:




More links:

Videos on "Move Well, Avoid Injury"

Andover Productions channel on youtube

Book: Body Mapping for Flutists by Lea Pearson

Fabulous way to present the knowledge that these authors have pioneered.
Incredibly valuable information for teachers and students.
Best,
Jen

Robert D. on Throat Tuning

Dear Flutists,
This is terrific!
Robert Dick is teaching Throat Tuning on youtube.
There are two installments so far, with others promised at weekly intervals.




This is great! Enjoy.
Best,
Jen

All you have to do is LISTEN - Rob Kapilow on CBC podcast

Dear musicians,

Wow. A great podcast, for free, from CBC radio podcasts is online.
It's an interview with pianist Rob Kapilow, composer, author and pianist.
He tells stories about Nadia Boulanger; he teaches the listener how to listen to music; and he shows how composition happens in a forward motion, but when we learn to compose, we use harmonic analysis in a backward, analytical motion.
Kapilow also talks about focused listening and attention skills that make listening to music so exquisite.

Very well explained. Great listening for teachers and students.

Go to:
Rob Kapilow Aug 22nd interview on CBC radio's "North by Northwest"

Right click on the August 22nd show (scroll down a bit).

A really tremendous show.
Enjoy,
Best, Jen :>)

Videos of Flute Teaching 'How tos' restored

Dear Friends and Flutists,

I'm re-doing all my flute videos specifically to suit the chapters of my flute book (at which I am still hard at work---very time consuming.) I have a better camera, and better general videos for all teachers and students to study. This takes time, of course.

Just recently I decided to remove 80% of my youtube flute teaching videos from Fluteloophost channel, but then, due to a flurry of emails,(Sept. 9th 09) I was asked to put them back up on youtube again.

But let me again assert that these older youtube flute videos (prior to 2009) are aimed at very specific questions from flute teachers, and very specific flute student queries. So they aren't "one size fits all".
I was confounded by some of the comments they generated from absolute beginners who were trying to do my "advanced intermediate embouchure excercises".
I had specifically said on some of the videos: "These are not exercises for beginners" but I guess some people comment without actually taking that fact in.
Doh!
But do please enjoy some fun summer videos that I made for my many gardening neighbours to laugh at: Here's episode three of "In the Garden"



And yes these are supposed to be quirky films to make you smile. Yes, it's me doing the voices, and I do plan on making more,but the school year has started, and they probably won't come as close together now that the garden is going into winter (mind you, Sir Aphid has just re-met his old "bolter" friend in episode 7 as is going to have to decide to flee or face the music...ha ha!)

And, the gardening videos were really simply to help the gardeners who were away on holiday have a record of what gardening was being done prior to their return.

Laughingly and filmingly,

(and maddeningly slow writing my flute book...

I would say that "philisophical condensations aplenty" -- are my excuse.)

Jen

Bobby McFerrin scale demonstration video

Dear Musicians and Flutists,

This five minute video with Bobby McFerrin and neuroscientist onlookers, proves what scale type we all have in our brains:

http://vimeo.com/5732745

Well worth watching; unforgettable.

Best,
Jen

Galway on Moyse, Nagahara flutes etc.

Dear Flutists,

See and hear Sir James Galway speak from his Weggis Masterclass 2009.
Galway speaks about Marcel Moyse's playing and teaching, about Nagahara flutes, Brogger mechanism, and also touches upon several topics of interest (single tonguing, practising Moyse's technique books, buying a new flute etc).
Flash player needed for 18 min. video:

http://www.thegalwaynetwork-video.com/weggis09moyse.html

Enjoy!
Best,
Jen