Extended techniques for flute
Unfortunately I can’t dance. This song makes me feel like I can. It’s hard to sit still and just play this exercise. I suggest you don’t fight it and go with the flow. The key clicks in this exercise help you improve the finger movement, the wind sounds make the embouchure flexible and to activate the abdomen I added tongue stops to the exercise.
The sound of a bell is strong at the beginning of the note and then soft immediately. That reminded me of tongue stops, so I made this Carol of the Bells a bit like Carol of the Tongsstops.
It takes days to get this catchy song out of your head. A great song to practice tongue stops, flutter tongue and wind sound.
This song is about a wolf, a fox and a hare. They are dancing. This arrangement is for four flutes or three flutes and a bass flute. Let the wolf, the fox and the hare dance!
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.
Keep the spirits up with this happy song. I feel good! The famous motive can be played easily with tone bending. The funny sound of the tongue stops will add even more fun to it. A little rest with the key clicks and the harmonics help you to increase the support. You will feel good after playing this warming up exercise.
Another energetic exercise to start your studies well. The tone bending in this piece challenges you to work on intonation. The pizzicato and tongue stops make your tongue stronger and increases the co-ordination between tongue, fingers and abdomen. And the harmonics will help you get a better sound.
This joyful melody must make you smile. The singing and playing, wind tones and tongue stops suit this song very well.
Through history many composers used this song to make variations. Now we have variations containing extended techniques! So find yourself a piano player and get started.
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