Flutecentric.com

Here is a flute teaching and playing resource for you. It includes information on a wide variety of topics of interest to flutists, and it will continue to be a place you can find interesting tidbits about the flute and flute playing.  It is to be used, evaluated and expanded upon over your own years of teaching and playing the flute.  Whether, as a teacher, you are part of the defining of a principal flutist or of helping a student to be first chair in their school band. Whether you are guiding an adult returning to music or you just end up educating a future audience member, you will have joyful and valuable life experiences as you bring music into the lives of others. And all along, you will be growing and improving your own playing.

The world is a very different place since I started my own private studio.  Everything is now available on “the web”.  You can find information on everything flute by looking it up online.  As of 2013 you can even take lessons on-line!!  It is so much different than my pieces of paper, flyers and brochures collected over years of lessons, master classes, convention attendance and seminars. Add to these the experience gained through private teaching and a multitude of different types of performances and you will be guided and encouraged by these thoughts on learning to play and teach the flute from a different perspective.

Why yet another flute website?  Well, you may have some questions about your own flute playing and are looking for some direction for your learning. Those who teach, will find that each student has their own unique learning issues and that as their teacher you are obliged to offer up advice, exercises and music to allow them to be the best flutist they can be.  To this end, I have some ideas that have worked well and yet I have never heard them used by other teachers.  They are simple to remember and easy to teach.  You will also find them very useful if you are trying to improve your own flute playing.  There are also many ideas which have been stated so well by someone else, that I have included some of these useful quotes and citations. In that vein, you will find many voices included here.

You can go to the web for anything and everything.  Google composers, performers, flutes, flutists and free flute sheet music. Check out the endless YouTube videos whether of performances or by master teachers.  This Flutecentric site touches on topics on which I have interesting information or fills in the cracks on to how to start a studio for example. It gives you additional thoughts, beyond your own, on teaching some of the techniques specific to the flute, whether to students or for yourself.

Happy fluting!