Extended techniques for flute
Who is laughing now? I hope you are after playing this warm up exercise! A great start for your daily studies. Exercises for embouchure and intonation (tone bending), articulation (pizzicato) and support (harmonics). All in one piece.
Harmonics are useful for support and embouchure. Practicing this duet in this way will greatly improve your sound. You can use vowels to make the harmonics smoother and easier.
Many flutists use harmonics to warm up. A good idea as they are very useful for support and embouchure. Now you can use this energizing sing for your daily warming-up exercise.
Harmonics are good for practicing support and flexibility. That’s why your sound gets bigger. Practice this song first with the regular notes, then with the harmonics, and the third time with the regular notes again. Compare the first and third time and notice the difference in sound.
This piece is inspired by the poem ‘Together’ by Rupi Kaur. The poem is about the irony of us all feeling lonely at the same time. The piece tries to capture those feelings of isolation that we all feel, knowing
that each person who listens to this understands those feelings too. Sometimes knowing just knowing other people have those feelings too is enough.
Ghost harmonics are great fun for practicing support and a relaxed embouchure. Enjoy the bamboo-like sound while studying step 2. Try playing step 3 with relaxed embouchure as practiced in step 2. Start with the exercise.
This famous passage by Richard Strauß is perfect for practicing harmonics. Variation I focuses on one set of harmonics. Perfect for practicing support. Variation II is more difficult because almost every note must be played as harmonic. Practice in all three keys for the best result.
This song is based on a twelve-bar blues pattern. Each letter has a different exercise. If you play this piece in a group, you can combine the pieces (letters) and play at the same time.
Tone bending, pizzicato, harmonics, key clicks, singing and playing: all great ingredients for a proper flute warming up. They are all added in this flute warming up exercise. Have fun!
This catchy song was used in one of the Shrek movies and became very famous. Now we can use it to practice one of the most challenging things while learning circular breathing: inflating and deflating the cheeks while playing. Also a nice exercise if you are not interested in learning circular breathing.
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