Essential Elements: A Comprehensive Band Method: F Horn, Book 1 Review

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(More customer reviews)The "Essential Elements : A Comprehensive Band Method - Book 1" is a great book for a young person who is learning an instrument for the first time. There is a fingering chart in the back of the book to make looking up fingerings quick and easy. The book starts off very basic with the parts of the instrument. The easiest notes to play and finger are presented first with exercises to practice them.
Hal Leonard also offered other books (though I haven't found them on Amazon) that correlate with some of the skills in this book.They are:
Essential Elements Movie Favorites
Essential Elements Broadway Favorites
Essential Elements Patriotic Favorites
Practice makes PERMANENT, not PERFECT.

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The book that started the Essential Elements Band Method features music history right in the book, band arrangements, Dr. Tim parent letter, quizzes, and a rhythm-based sequence. Effective pedagogy, a logical sequence of skills, innovative parental commun

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Play Flute Today! Beginner's Pack: Book/CD/DVD Pack (Play Today Instructional Series) Review

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(More customer reviews)I bought this along with a book called Learning How to Play the Flute, which I like much better. The Hal Leonard book has fewer songs to play. I just watched the DVD and it's quite funny! Very dated and not helpful. The instructor onscreen just goes into too much picky detail and breezes through the notes too quickly. There's no way you could learn how to play the flute just by watching the DVD! You really need to practice from a book. There is also a CD but I haven't played along to it yet.

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This is the ultimate beginner's pack for anyone who wants to learn to play flute. You get a great book/CD pack plus a corresponding DVD that cover all the basics, including: How to assemble and care for your instrument, producing a sound, reading music notation and rhythms, a fingering chart, a glossary of musical terms, and much more. The CD includes audio instruction as well as 74 full-demo tracks. Perfect for those who want to teach themselves or in a classroom setting. Also available: Play Flute Today! - Level 2 (HL00842044) and Play Flute Today! - Songbook (HL00842045).

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Modern Guide to Fingerings for the Flute Review

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(More customer reviews)It's worth your time to invest in learning from a master! James J. Pellerite's classic, A Modern Guide to Fingerings for the Flute is still the definitive guide to flute fingerings, crammed with essential information that isn't available anywhere else. He writes from a wealth of experience as both performer, now retired solo flutist with the Philadelphia Orchestra, and as Professor of Flute (now retired) at the Indiana University School of Music. He has performed and given master classes all over the world, including Japan, and has numerous solo recordings. Some of you may be familiar with his work on the Native American flute as well.

The guidebook is beginner friendly in the visual representation of the fingerings, but goes far beyond what is available in most fingering guides found in flute pedagogical texts, giving the flutist essential information to allow you to achieve any technique a composer could write for you to play and allow you to reach the highest levels of achievement on the flute.

It includes the basic fingerings for the full range of the flute, with multiple fingerings and concise explanations of the differences and advantages of those fingerings and how they are best used. Beginning flutists will also find trill fingerings especially helpful.

Beyond the basics, James Pellerite covers tremolos: the major and minor thirds, perfect fourths and tritones, perfect fifths, sixths, sevenths, and octaves. There is a chapter on altered fingerings - fingerings that can be used to deliberately change flute timbre, transparency, raise pitch, and aid with playing in extreme dynamics. These can add greatly to the flutist's tools for interpreting of music.

There are fingerings for quarter tone and quarter tone trills, which can open many doors for playing music by contemporary composers and playing world music. Also, for the flutist interested in pursuing multiphonics, there is an extensive section for playing 2, 3 or 4 note chords on the flute.

A Modern Guide to Fingerings for the Flute is written very intelligently and concisely. James Pellerite gives you a deep understanding of fingering technique with an economy of words. This is of great importance for performing musicians who are seeking information and don't want to be distracted by wordy or lengthy discussions.

If you are serious about the flute, A Modern Guide to Fingerings for the Flute is an essential tool.

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One of the most complete guides for the flute ever published! Covers basic fingerings, trills, tremolos (3rds through octaves), quarter-tones, multiphonics. A unique reference book for studio and classroom by James J. Pellerite, Professor of Flute, Indiana University.

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How I Stayed in Shape (Schott) Review

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(More customer reviews)When, at the preface, Moyse says it's tailored for "musicians who don't have much time to practice", it might be a little joke. The exercises on it are exhausting. I wonder what would be his book for someone who has all the time to practice...
Excellent work, as all of Moyse's books! For serious advanced musicians. 10 out of 10.

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Marcel Moyse has become one of the legendary great flautists of the 20th century. As a pupil of Tannanel and successor to Gaubert at the Conservatoire National de Paris, he stands in the direct tradition of the 'French School'. How I Stayed in Shape is his last book of studies (1974), presented here for the first time in a trilingual edition (French, German, English). His pedagogic and artistic experiences are set out in their entirety with the aim of helping professional flute players who have little time to practise, and also 'everyone who loves the flute, while not forgetting the music'. This volume aims to improve the basic aspects of flute playing (formation of tone, intonation, articulation, phrasing) using examples from the repertoire and Moyse's own detailed comments.

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Selected Flute Solos EFS 101 (Everybody's Favorite Series;) Review

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(More customer reviews)This is an excellent flute book for the intermediate and advanced flutist.When you order, just make certain you get both the flute part and the piano part.

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This volume contains a group of the finest standard flute solos selected for their diversity in style and suitability for concert and contest use.

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100 Classical Themes For Flute Flute Solos Review

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(More customer reviews)I am really enjoying this book.I have had it for about 6 weeks.In my opinion, it is a mid-level intermediate book.It's challenging enough for the intermediate flute player to keep you practicing and improving.If you like classical music, this book is definately for you.If you don't know what you think about classical music, it's a book that will help you see how beautiful classical music can be on the flute.

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A selection of all the best-known tunes and themes in the classical repertoire, carefully edited for flute solo. Includes works by Mozart, Bach, Beethoven, Chopin, and many more great composers.

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