Description
Features Amy Porter, professor of flute at the University of Michigan. This is a flute-training DVD for young students, beginning adults, new teachers and parents wishing to help their children practice at home and receive a solid foundation. This DVD will take you through all of the steps necessary to learn an instrument for the very first time. There is an abundance of important information about how to hold your instrument, how to get your very first sounds, how to play your very first song and then it will lead you into playing many more songs before the video is completed. This DVD is a powerful supplement for any course of study or method for playing the flute. An indispensable self-learning tool for anyone interested in beginning flute playing!
Carl Fischer Music’s new The ABCs of Flute features world-renowned flutist and pedagogue Amy Porter. This DVD is a comprehensive beginning study guide to playing the flute with information about breathing, embouchure, hand position, air direction and caring for your instrument. It also features tunes with up to six notes, and ventures briefly into the upper and lower octaves. Amy Porter performs the featured tunes with piano accompaniments arranged by Larry Clark. This DVD also includes a 16-page instructional booklet. For beginning players. Duration: 65’
Contents:
| How to Use This DVD and Booklet |
| Flute Fingering Chart |
| The Basics of Music |
| Head Joint Exercises |
| First Notes |
| Mary Had a Little Lamb |
| “Twinkle, Twinkle (in G)” |
| Good King Wenceslas (Short Version) |
| Lightly Row |
| FrÒre Jacques |
| Largo (from the Symphony No. 9 in E minor by Antonin Dvorak) (Short Version) |
| Good King Wenceslas (Long Version) |
| Largo (from the Symphony No. 9 in E minor by Antonin Dvorak) (Long Version) |