Best Flute Trill Charts - free online

Dear Flutists,

Here are all the online flute trill charts that I've found, in order of preference.

Free Online Flute Trill Charts

1. Mark Thomas one page fingering and trill chart

Note: This is the same fingering chart I was given back in the 1970s, but it is still the best all in one fingering and trill chart for students. Acurate, easy to read.

2. The Woodwind Fingering Guide
This is a user-compiled, online alternate fingering guide for all kinds of flutes.

For C-flute, flute trill charts by octave


3. Extract of Delaney Flute Teaching Guide; Just the fingering and trill pages

Note: The entire Delaney Teaching Guide is an interesting read, but you may only want his trill chart, above. If you want the whole book, use the link below instead.

Delaney Flute Teacher's Guide with Trill chart at end of book.

4.Armstrong colour one-page trill chart

I don't use the above chart, as colour printing can use up student's ink; but it has pizzazz, that's for sure.

5. Lindholm Trill Chart;

The legend for reading the trills is on page 9 of this pdf.

More on trills:

Best book for flute trill fingerings: Nestor Herszbaum

All students will want to own this fingering book. Trill charts super easy to read, and many many alternates, all fully tested.

Trill learning/reading:

How to read and play flute trills - pdf printable learning pages from this blog.

Bookmarkable page of all flute-piccolo best fingering charts.

As you can see, I too am seeking the world's best trill charts for flute.
Do drop me a line in the comments if you have any others that are even better.
Best, Jen

99 Solos and Studies from Australia

Dear Flutists,

I recently received this wonderful and useful etude book in the mail from Australia that arrived within a week!
How entirely excellent a book it is! (and I'm not related to the flute teachers who created this study book, of course.)

Usually, when you buy a book of flute etudes, you find two to three great etudes, and all the rest are uphill work, unattractive to the ear, or diabolically difficult for no apparent reason.
Well the Australian flute teachers who compiled this lovely new book of etudes have finally ended that reign of terrible (or as we say "terri-blech!") etude books !

The three flute teachers who compiled this book extracted all the most gorgeous etudes from Novice to Advanced (Canadian grade 3 to 10+/ARCT) and put them all in one book for $48.

Now you may say: "OMG - that's a whole lot of cost for one etude book, and I already have nine thousand etude books, and I hate them all except for a dozen or so Bach, Drouet, and Hughes studies that are truly helpful and beautiful to listen to."

Well, I've just finished playing twice through the whole of 99 Solos and Studies for Flute and it's the equivalent of five excellent etude books, with only all the good etudes from each of dozens and dozens of etude books! 99 Solos and Studies has great pages, eliminating page turns, great readability, intelligent pedagogy, and inspiring, progressive challenges. The new-to-me celtic tunes found in the novice grades are simply gorgeous, and the combination of familiar and beautiful etudes that have been collected togher are musically rewarding. The whole book is super-inspiring and head and shoulders above standard etude books.It's going to become my new "must have" for all students.
It's that good. Use the comment button; give your own opinions when your copy arrives.

This one book would be especially good for high schoolers, amateur adults, and of course, University music majors who would use the easier level etudes as their daily warmups, (using "outlining" and tonguing patterns to vary the melodies a la Moyse 24 Petite Melodies), or creating their own work plan for inspring summer practice sessions. For intermediate flutists it would be perfect for learning the technical challenges through melody. And knowing that all the solos and studies are presented in graded order of difficulty, the student can progress at their own pace.

And are there between-lesson flutists out there who looking for practice inspiration over the summer? Great tunes? Great workouts? Great lift in the spirts? Then...get this book. And as a gig book for solo performances? Fantastico!
You could play for two or three hours out of this book, just as solo material for any kind of gig!
Fabulouso osso-mosso.
Love it and huge thanks to the caring flute teachers who wrote it. This collection is marvellous. (And I haven't said that since Cohen's "Rampal School"!)

These creativge Australian pedagogues also have a beginner flute book and repertoire collection for beginners which I'll be checking out in the coming month. See all books here. So cool. It's about time we banished the bad rep(ertoire)! hahahaha!

Best, Jen

From the aptly named Fluteworthy book site:

99 Solos and Studies for Flute. Edited by Christine Draeger, Jocelyn Fazzone and Lamorna Nightingale
This progressive collection of solos and studies for the beginner to advanced flute player are stylistically diverse and fun to play.

From the thousands of studies and solo pieces written in the past four centuries, we have selected the 99 of the most enjoyable pieces for both teacher and student. Collated in a broadly progressive order from approximately AMEB 2nd grade to Diploma Level, the pieces cover all areas of technique; tone, articulation, dynamics, finger dexterity etc. Metronome speeds, articulation, dynamics and breaths are suggested but as the level of difficulty increases these editorial marks are phased out to encourage the advanced student to make technical and musical decisions.

STUDIES + FANTASIES + CAPRICES + ETUDES + FOLK SONGS + OPERATIC THEMES + VARIATIONS + VIRTUOSIC SOLOS
See: Table of contents.
Sample page of Kulauh etude.
All information: 99 Solos & Studies by Fluteworthy

Geoffrey Gilbert plays Debussy

It's not often you get a chance to hear Geoffrey Gilbert play. Enjoy!

Gilbert performs Debussy on youtube.



The book by Angelita Floyd about Gilbert's teaching is fabulous for flutists thinking ahead to this summer's study too.
Best, Jen

Paula Robison plays Vivaldi & Lanier

Dear Flute-lovers,

You might just love this! Paula Robison plays vunderbarr Vivaldi!



And you can have the music to playalong with too!

Free Vivaldi "La Notte" sheetmusic in pdf.

Paula Robison, flute
Concerto in g minor "La Notte"
Concerto in G minor
Flute Concerto No. 2 in G minor
Op. 10, No. 2, RV 439
Antonio Vivaldi
[video at youtube]


Enjoy!
Best, Jen

P.S.
Also listen to this new video; gorgeous playing!

Wind Song by Sidney Lanier composed (C. 1874)
Paula Robison, solo flute

Pahud Flute Fundamentals video excellent!

Dear Flute teachers and students,

There is a fabulous, and I mean FABULOUS(!)
EmmanuelPahud "Interview" and
"Flute Fundamentals" teaching class for download at Play with a Pro:

www.playwithapro.com

This is a new instrumental teaching site that films masterclasses at Domain Forget in Canada. The instrumentalists are astoundingly world-class.

To see previews of Pahud's teaching:
Go to playwithapro, click on the BROWSE tab to look under the artist-instrument list for Emanuel Pahud ( he is top of the list), click on his name, and then you can watch the film previews. When you click on each of the four films, the preview button will appear.

Very enticingly excellent and intelligent streaming video clips!
And superb inspiring flute tips? Yes, yes, yes indeed??

I couldn't resist; I spent $40 (using paypal--thank you all you sheetmusic purchasers!) and paid for the 90 minute "Fundamentals" film of Pahud demonstrating the most fantastic flute playing tips. Intonation, Breathing, Blowing, Tonguing, Vibrato, and more. And I added the free the 60 minute sit-down interview film (which is free for the first 500 new users, apparently) which was also totally fantastic.


I think it's a fabulous price for a trip to Quebec to hear Pahud describe what he does and how he does it, for an upclose look at his flute playing and ideas for two and a half hours! Fantastico!
So, run don't walk to watch these films. What a tremendous learning experience!

The download of the site's streaming HD media player is free and easy, and it's only 6 mb. The icon for the PlaywithaPro media player will appear on your desktop. From then on the films you've purchased stay on your hardrive indefinitely, or can be re-downloaded if lost, or backed up on another computer. You cannot save them in alternate media (DVD for example), but you can view them perpetually. And Pahud makes so many consequetively brilliant points, you'll want to view them more than four times, I think.

Note: I did have to switch from Quicktime to their alternate media player for some reason to watch the second film, the free Pahud interview. But everything else about the purchase was quick and automatic. What a world we live in!
Kudos to the brilliant Pahud! I learned so much!

Highly recommended.
FIVE STARS!

And here's Pahud making a fab Traviata recording:



Enjoy!

Best, Jen

Alto & Bass Flute Repertoire List

Dear Big-bigger&biggest flute lovers,

Chris Potter has just put up a fantastic repertoire list for Alto & Bass Flute on her site for a limited time. You may wish to take a look.

Alto & Bass Selected Repertoire List

Chris Potter writes:
Alto and Bass Players,
As Chair of the NFA Low Flutes Committee, I am pleased to announce the publication of a listing of music for alto flute that the committee has chosen as outstanding pieces for the instrument. The listing is divided into eleven difficulty levels following the guidelines of the NFA Pedagogy Committee. Our list includes mixed chamber music as well as solo literature. We will be adding bass flute and contra bass flute in the future. Because the NFA is on the verge of a major website upgrade, I have been given permission to post this list on my website temporarily.
The address is http://www.altoflute.net/html/NFAAltoRepertoire.html
Have fun!
Chris Potter
Alto and Bass Flute Specialist
Chair, NFA Low Flutes Committee
Alto and Bass Flute Retreat July 28-Aug 1
http://www.altoflute.net/

Thankyou Chris! Vunderbarr!
Best, Jen