Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 788.32193
EAN: 9780312288617
ISBN: 0312288611
Label: St. Martin's Griffin
Manufacturer: St. Martin's Griffin
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 128
Publication Date: 2002-02-09
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Studio: St. Martin's Griffin

How to Play the Flute is a new kind of flute tutor. It combines over fifty carefully selected musical pieces with illustrations, diagrams, and text to give students a full, clear explanation of the basics of flute playing. Progressing in easy stages, How to Play the Flute takes one from simple melodies to the music of Bach and Scott Joplin.

How to Play the Flute covers all the basics, including:

· Purchasing and caring for your instrument

· Reading music

· Breathing techniques

· Improving tone

Customer Rating:
Summary: Great Informational Instruction Book
Comment: This book is great for beginers and re-learners that want to improve their playing skills. There is a lot of great information that your teacher or private instructor may not provide.

It's a much easier to read that a tradional textbook/instructional book will give you. Basically, I didn't fall asleep reading it.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Learning to Play Again
Comment: I had put down the flute for 19 years. This book is awesome for re-learning what I'd forgotten. It teaches slowly enough so it doesn't intimidate, but not too slowly that I get bored. Some of the early songs are fairly challenging (for me) and sound great once I finally get them right. I have enjoyed this book!!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: The Best Beginning Flute Book!
Comment: This is one amazing little book-as a beginning flute player in middle age with previous experience on classical guitar,this guide has outdone another method book I'd gotten even tho it came with a DVD. Lavishly illustrated,the author shows you how to get the best tone,how to hold the flute,how to get higher notes vs lower notes,and most important he explains the "why?' behind all of the proper way to do this or that. Easy to read diagrams make learning to read music a fun and delightful experience. Highly recommended!

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Great book
Comment: This is a great little book. It had been 30 years since I had played flute in college and I had forgotten many of the fingerings. With this book, I was back playing in a few hours. Money well spent.

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Customer Rating:
Summary: Excellent teacher
Comment: This book is clear, informative, interesting to read and helpful in pointing out pitfalls of poor playing before I even get into bad habits. I'm sure that it's value will continue to unfold for me as I continue to use it.

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