Dear April❢ What an outstanding lesson❢ So intensive, useful, interesting and important. I love and enjoy it very much. Well done. Keep up your exquisite lesson. Have a pleasant time for our music and I'm absolutely looking forward to your next video. All the best. 🎉🎉🎉Satoru
You can certainly play scales and arpeggios impressively well and fast too :) But let me throw in a curve ball here...what is the point of spending so much time on scales and arpeggios? Isn't it better, more satisfying and more fun to spend all that time practising actual music which will contain some arpeggios and scales anyway? I don't imagine many beginner or intermediate student flautists are likely to play much music in F# or Db, so why waste time learning such scales and arpeggios in so many keys, certainly in the first few years of learning and given that the majority of music students do not go to undergrad music college - they just want to play for enjoyment. Aren't all those scales and arpeggios a rather dull and old fashioned approach to learning music and probably still only taught because of a "that's how I learned, so that's how you should learn" mentality? There, I did say I'd throw in a curve ball! ;)
Of course people are free to play the flute, or any instrument, without developing technique. People can draw, paint, dance, do calligraphy, do surgery... without technique. Enter a sword fight without technique, if you want. Even kids auditioning for a junior high band flute chair will wish they had more technique, if they were hoping to be first chair in that ensemble... but were instead placed last. And hey, if you think my scales and arpeggios are impressive, you should hear me play ACTUAL MUSIC. 😂So much better than those without developed technique, if I do say so myself! To the point that I make a good living doing it! 🗝
You're the master of flute 🪈 arpeggios and scales.❤ your students are fortunate to study with you!
So kind - thank you!
Dear April❢ What an outstanding lesson❢ So intensive, useful, interesting and important. I love and enjoy it very much. Well done. Keep up your exquisite lesson. Have a pleasant time for our music and I'm absolutely looking forward to your next video. All the best. 🎉🎉🎉Satoru
This is giving me great ideas for incorporating theory to students in lessons more.
I'm sure you have plenty of your own great ideas that way - but I'm glad if we can exchange some! ❤
Broken notes naturally. My favorite!
Good to have favorites! 😄
Excellent! What pages from T & G do you recommend?
Thanks! The ones I talk about in my more advanced video are T&G 10 and 12. Those two are my favorite T&G arpeggio exercises.
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You can certainly play scales and arpeggios impressively well and fast too :) But let me throw in a curve ball here...what is the point of spending so much time on scales and arpeggios? Isn't it better, more satisfying and more fun to spend all that time practising actual music which will contain some arpeggios and scales anyway? I don't imagine many beginner or intermediate student flautists are likely to play much music in F# or Db, so why waste time learning such scales and arpeggios in so many keys, certainly in the first few years of learning and given that the majority of music students do not go to undergrad music college - they just want to play for enjoyment. Aren't all those scales and arpeggios a rather dull and old fashioned approach to learning music and probably still only taught because of a "that's how I learned, so that's how you should learn" mentality? There, I did say I'd throw in a curve ball! ;)
Of course people are free to play the flute, or any instrument, without developing technique. People can draw, paint, dance, do calligraphy, do surgery... without technique. Enter a sword fight without technique, if you want. Even kids auditioning for a junior high band flute chair will wish they had more technique, if they were hoping to be first chair in that ensemble... but were instead placed last. And hey, if you think my scales and arpeggios are impressive, you should hear me play ACTUAL MUSIC. 😂So much better than those without developed technique, if I do say so myself! To the point that I make a good living doing it! 🗝