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Percussion Pedagogy. Flute Vibrato | flutetunes.com. Vibrato is that shimmery variation in pitch that warms up the tone of the flute. It is similar to the effect produced by a violinist's hand as it moves back and forth. As Sir James Galway wrote in his book Flute, Vibrato is another subject on which experts violently disagree, and all of them are right. Why Vibrato? Vibrato gives life to the sound, allows for intensity, and helps a player to focus.

On the other hand, if the vibrato never varies, neither does the life of the music, and the result is rather tiresome and tedious. What Exactly is Vibrato? Vibrato is the pulse of the sound brought about by the rapid alteration of more or less forceful pressure of the breath. These two extremes are commonly referred to as “stomach vibrato” and “throat vibrato”, and they are the only methods possible for producing a vibrato sound on the flute. It is important to observe that flute vibrato is a more complex phenomenon than the vibrato produced, for instance, by string players. One Vibrato, or Many? Sight Read This! - Music Sightreading Skillbuilding. Eyes and Ears: A Book of Music for Sight-Singing. An Anthology of Melodies for Sight-Singing Eyes and Ears is being used by: Daniel Shaw at Johns Hopkins University's Center for Talented Youth summer program in Carlisle, PA Ruth Robertson at Lincoln University of Missouri, Jefferson City, MO Rob Swenson's AP Music Theory at American Heritage School, American Fork, Utah Peter Knapp at Long Beach City College Download Buy a Printed Copy Printed copies are available via Lulu.com for $7.39 plus shipping.

Click here to buy a copy. Getting Involved Please contact me if you're interested in getting involved in this free-information project. Test-drive the book. Some notes: Just because a melody's original composer has been dead for hundreds of years, that doesn't mean we can use a modern, copyrighted edition of his/her work in this kind of book. Sources and Legal Stuff Nearly all the melodies in Eyes and Ears are in the public domain. Melodies entered by me from public-domain sources Melodies from the Mutopia project Melodies from Thierry Klein. Building Listening Skills In The Band, Articulation Part 1.

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