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I wouldn't say I'm more advanced. I had studied on my own for a long time, and now that I have a really good teacher I'm unlearning all my bad habits so I got thrown back to square one again.

I'll take a look at those books you mentioned - thanks.

That's pretty cool. It makes more sense than doing what I'm doing i.e. picking up any music scores that look interesting and seeing how I'm getting on. I picked up the Brandenburg Concerto recently. It is a nightmare for a new player like me to get past the first line of music with most the notes i...

I'm not going for the tests or anything. I'm using the requirements as a personal set of goals.

numptie - first I'll answer the most important part of your post ... the cartoon is Disney's Robin Hood.

The second part - I contacted ABRSM and asked them what did they mean by that their answer: It is a simple chord from the tonic.

I bought from fluteworld. I ordered 4 flutes to try and sent three of them back. No problems at all.

For the requirements for the ABRSM tests they ask for arpeggios to be able to play the "common chords". I asked my teacher about this but she just kinda shrugged it off and said it was just the chords 1, 3, 5; but, I'm wondering if that's right. Anyone know what they mean by "common chords"?

I'm also having a similar problem with C#, C, and B. A couple days ago I asked my teacher about these notes. Her answer was that sometimes these lower notes are just hard for some people. She suggested that I continue doing the Trevor Wye long tone exercises, and to focus my air stream more downward...

Thanks. I'm comparing these charts with the ones I have

Hey guys, I've been looking at the fingerings for the upper register and I have a problem with the proper fingering. I have two charts and diagrams in Trevor Wye's Beginners book. The notes from High A to C are different in each chart. The chart I have been using the most says to press down the foll...

No no. The violinist isn't flutter tonguing. The flute player would use flutter tonguing when playing what violinist would play as Tremolo.

fluteguy18 - I don't talk to string players! They all think they're better than the wind players.

I also asked in another forum and they mentioned that it wouldn't be vibrato; it would be flutter-tonguing.

I've been having the same problem. I use a metronome and it's perfect. I try it without a metronome and I don't have any concept of keeping time. And when I play with others I'll get lost after the second measure. What I've been trying to do with Brahm's Lullaby is that first I played it with the me...

When playing a piece for violin how would you play tremolo? Would that be vibrato?

When I have the time I try and do the following: 20 minutes long tones 10 minutes scales 10 minutes variable exercises 10 minutes beginner book 10 minutes new music But because of work and limited time I sometimes don't get to all of it but I try and do long tones and scales every day. I do wish som...

I wrap a small cotton cloth, that I got from fluteworld, around the cleaning rod and use that to wipe the inside. I then use a shimmy type cloth to clean the outside (I made sure it was not one of those silver polish cloths) and that's all I do to clean the whole flute actually.