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General index of all Jen's blog posts
with the most recent (2017-) at top:
- Why the best players don't always win auditions
- A gorgeous Bach Brandenberg 2
- New Carol Wincenc Film
- A Very Quiet Whistle - good whistletone videos
- New Sheridon Stokes Film
- New Music - Eight Funtasies by Solvenian Composers
- Prokofiev Classical played on piccolos for Finale (update)
- Composer Anlun Huang - beautiful flute music
- Scottish Baroque; beautiful music
- Wonderful outspokeness
- Still Here, Still Thinking
- A Song of Dusk - New Music for Flute
- Audio interview with Sheridon Stokes
- Summer Restart for Me
- Playing around with Nielsen
- Kobe - Round Two
- a Podcast for when you're fired from the arts
- Masks for flute performing
- New Years revival with Edmund-Davies
- Top Ten Secrets of Great Flute Playing
- Kobe Flute Competition Announcement
- Pahud plays Debussy Trio
- Subscribers to blog now on Follow.it
- New Northern Ireland Flute Podcast
- Retirement Gift and Thankyou
- Interesting things for March
- Robison mentored by Moyse
- Articles on Flutetalk free! Moyse TDTI
- Alison Fierst & Robert Langevin NYPhil
- Beauty in Simplicy (Handel)
- The Super Shortest Headjoint You'll See
- Huge Flute Piano Sheetmusic Resource
- Gareth Davies Interview
- Rachel Brown plays Beethoven
- Possible Magic - Resmini & Great Train Race
- Joséphine Olech Interview
- Piccolo videos Fantastico
- Michael Cox Masterclass & Q&A (free)
- Getting Back in Shape (after years away)
- Summer Practise Motivation (podcast)
- William Bennett teaching (video)
- Julien Beaudiment - Flutist
- Free stay-at-home Excercises by Edmund-Davies
- Jen talks about flute philosophy (mp3 audio)
- Free Flutetalk Articles May 2020
- How to Convert a Wav File to an mp3 using Audacity
- deep contemplation of a life spent fluting
- Micromovements in Rampal's Embouchure
- Film about Classical Stagefright
- Teaching Flute Online 3 Ways
- Musical Togetherness (collaborative videos)
- Peace, Calm, Hope (Covid message)
- Do You Really Need a Conductor?
- Tchaikovsky opus 45 fast fingerings
- Jolen Harju's practicing videos
- Demarre McGill - interviews, playing, teaching
- How to Sound Like (famous composer) videos
- Finger Height on the Flute
- Projecting your sound in an acoustic space
- Those crazy virtuostic tempo markings
- Britten's Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra fingerings
- Podcasts Life as Musicians - Alternative Fingerings free
- Dystonia - Keith Underwood - PE Davies Noodles
- Speechless- video 12 yr old plays Rodrigo
- Comparing multiple thousand dollar flutes
- Tchaik Competition & Underwood Classes
- Prague Flute Competition videos
- Nathan Cole's excellent teaching
- First round Nielsen Videos
- Lorna McGhee teaches Daphnis et Chloe excerpt
- Robert Dick on Breathing for Flutists
- How do you know when you're not a prodigy?
- Terri Sanchez's good quality flute teaching (videos)
- Why Music is like a Cathedral
- Vivaldi too early to show piccoloist's real stuff
- Bach's bwv 1013 on Baroque Flute - Barile
- Quick Tricks for flute playing
- Podcasts for the Thinking Flutist
- Jen's scale tempi ideas
- How to practice for 2-week lessons
- How to get ready for a first rehearsal
- Bach Sarabande Hilary Hahn
- Free Piano Accompaniments
- Vitali Chaconne & Fluteloops Audio restore
- Davies Free Rabboni Sonata 16
- L'Apres Midi; Nine Minutes that Changed the World CBC - CBC Radio Canada podcast
- Flutist Parents raise a Violinist - Roger Cole's grandson
- Pahud plays Khachaturian Concerto
- Spring in your step? - Pahud plays Khachaturian (video)
- Ibert Concerto Tremelo Fingerings
- Paul Dunkel interview (film)
- Slowing the tempo for accompaniment tracks
- Happy New Year 2018 - Resmini interview
- B-flat fingerings - 24 Sequences Edmund-Davies
- Ornaments: Grace Notes, Appogiaturas, Trills, Grupetti
- Flute Composer's Historical Timeline
- The Flute may be Metal, but you are not
- Lorna McGhee teaching Prokofiev & Beethoven
- Lea Pearson Webinar on Body Tension Solutions
- Kobe International Flute Competition on youtube
- Free Sequences from Paul Edmund-Davies
- Anchor Tonguing on Flute
- Should I roll my wrists to tune?
- Kohler's Doll's Waltz - free study guide
- Paul Edmund-Davies new teaching videos
- Bourikaov - Mariinsky video
- Emmanuel Pahud teaching Daphnis (video)
- Masterclasses worth seeing and hearing (2 videos)
- Victor Morosco Masterclass Video
- Free Flute Gigging Sheetmusic
- Beginner Questions - Bent C# foot - Difficult high notes
- Scherzo from Midsummer Night's Dream
- 18 Steps - A "how to" video of classical music (humour)
- What do articulation markings mean?
- Pressler Masterclass on Piano Trio Playing
- High B3 - how to get it to speak
- Crown & Cork: Are you twisting your crown?
- Starting the piccolo - if you already play flute
- Free Flute-Piccolo Dissertations
- Susan Hoeppner - How to Prepare for a Recital article
- High D (D4) Embouchure Change
- Recording Duets Easily on a Zoom - free pdf 800kb easy to read instructions
- Being James Galway documentary - full length film on youtube
- Jacot to play Sunday 7 am Reineke livestream
- Barile plays Khachaturian
- How to Get Started on the Flute
- Underwood - Embouchure for Doublers especially - video interview with Keith Underwood
- Watch Lorna McGhee Teach
- Watch Prague 2015 Flute Competition (video) - Four flutists compete in finals
- Sonority Warmups from Edmund-Davies
- My old flute is dying, do I need a new flute?
- Pencil Grips as anti-skid flute wideners
- Your Fluteplaying Brain
- Interesting conversations with Met Opera flutists
- Is one month of lessons enough to assess?
- Finger Gym Exercises by Paul Edmund-Davies
- Bach Chaconne BWV1004 free flute transcription
- Free Pleasures of Pan pdf sheetmusic
- Adam Walker Flamenco Etude-Zgraja
- Dec 1 - Geneva Competition livestream
- Electronic Tuner or Tuning CD?
- Amy Porter - Masterclass/Recital online
- How to Warm-Up to practice flute
- The Nielsen Competition 2014 WATCH online
- Video of Butterfly during flute competition
- Widmann Suite played by Joshua Smith
- How to Organize Your Flute Music
- Jen's Feature Interview - Article on Jen Augst 2014
- Michael Cox teaches Bizet's Entracte
- Neck tension while playing flute
- How to clean and repair a flute? Take it to the shop! - expert work is best
- Now that is might fine chamber coaching
- Post Pahud Live Broadcast
- May 24 2014 Livestream Pahud Masterclass etc - Pahud livestream, Met Auditions, Picc. Intonation
- Donjon's Offertoire by Garrison - Leonard Garrison teaches Donjon for Intermediate Flutists
- Stunning! - Emma Resmini at 13 years of age; flute recital
- Jen's Fave Rave Etude List
- Thoughtful Performances, Baroque-Romantic
- 3. Practising Musical Line - Tartini
- Pahud Masterclasses
- 2. Musical LIne - Outlining
- 1 Understanding Musical Line
- Armstrong plays too sharp
- The Bane of the Borne We Bear
- 30 year old piccolo question
- A Powerful Four
- And you thought your recital was difficult!
- Your mind-set makes a difference
- All three B-flats are needed - part 2
- Wordless Expression
- Orchestral Excerpt preparation
- Kummer Trios for free
- First Canadian Flute Convention!
- Teaching Resources - Pahud, Denk & Sax Lessons
- Time charting of Practicing?
- Intermediates Ask; Teflon tape, thick lips, flashy pieces
- Novice Questions from past three months
- Fluters on Scooters? Beauty shared.
- Back in town and ready to flute!
- Are we flute players all tied in knots?
- 3. Drouet, Camus, the Handsome Etude
- 2. De-monstering the 'tudes
- 1. Monster Etudes! Gak!
- Why work on the standard B-flat fingering?
- Beginner Questions
- Midsummer Inspiration
- Rampal's Japanese Melodies sheetmusic
- Flutey Multi-Tracking H4N
- Historic Flute Recordings
- Some beauty must be shared
- How do I get faster fingers? (free pdfs)
- Why is my tone inconsistent from day to day?
- Help I'm 30 cents flat all the time
- New Videos, Fave Flutists
- Embouchure Questions & Rampal Videos
- Part 2. High-Med-Low Longtone Warmups (free pdfs)
- Part 1. Low Longtone Warmups (free pdfs)
- Easy Posture & Pure Tone
- Flute Moves on Chin
- Teaching Breathing Easily
- The Art of Playing the Flute!!! The Book
- The Mistral Fanfare - Lots of Excitement!
- The Wiggley Road to Success
- Jazzy Dudes - Modes & 7th chord free pdfs
- Flute Pedagogy Notes
- Piccolo Questions
- Creative Scale Practice for Flute Students
- Part 3 of Morning Scale Class
- Part 2 of Morning Scale Class
- James Galway's Morning Scale Class
- Musician's Injuries and Self-Trigger Point Therapy
- Think summer..think Denk & Robison
- Free Breathing Masterclass with Pahud
- Bach for Flutists
- Denis Bouriakov miracle dude
- Flutists can learn so much from Cellists
- Handel Errata & Quantz's vertical lines
- Whole Tone scales & Dom-Dim Sevenths
- Best Flute Trill Charts - free online
- 99 Solos and Studies from Australia
- Geoffrey Gilbert plays Debussy
- Paula Robison plays Vivaldi & Lanier
- Pahud Flute Fundamentals video excellent!
- Alto & Bass Flute Repertoire List
- Even the roll is dicey - flute boardgame
- Mathieu Dufour plays Poulenc
- Beethoven & Your Brain
- New Carnegie-RCM flute syllabus free online
- James Galway & Beethoven Serenade op.25
- Andersen op. 15 lessons by Paul Edmund Davies
- Flute Duets Grade 3-5
- Good vs. Great musicianship
- E is for Excellence - E is for Etudes
- Do I need a new flute? Or is my old one broken?
- Tone Experiments for Advanced Flutists
- Digitally Ubiquitous - Jen's profile in Flutist Quarterly
- Flute Auditions youtube orchestra
- Does piccolo fourth octave exist?
- More on Moyse
- Top Teeth where Upper Lip should be
- How to dismiss a teacher
- Trios ahoy
- Tchaikovsky Tremelo Fingerings
- Emma plays Gaubert & Mouquet
- Gypsy Style flute repertoire for students
- New Vivaldi Flute Concerto
- Free Tuning Drones for Flute
- Top Flute Orchestral Excerpts on youtube today
- Bamboo sound-effects for silver flute
- Circle of Fifths to print
- Quantz & Galway - same advice three centuries apart
- Get excited about music
- 4 - Marcel Moyse - Pearls from the Master
- 3 - Marcel Moyse - Pearls from the Master
- 2 - Marcel Moyse - Pearls from the Master
- 1 - Marcel Moyse - Pearls from the Master
- Big flute sheetmusic news for flute teachers
- Christmas Carols for Flute Trio
- Part 3 - 10 Things I wish I'd Known
- Part 2 - 10 Things I wish I'd Known
- Part 1 - 10 Things I wish I'd known
- Fumbling Fingers?
- Rave reviews for my Celtic Trios
- Eva-Nina Kozmus wins Eurovision with Ibert Concerto
- Method books for adult novice
- Some beauty just must be shared
- Why is my flute always flat?
- Opera Arias for flute & mp3 backing tracks
- Subtle blending of Pahud in St. Matthew's
- new Azumi curved beginner flutes
- TMJ & the weight of gold
- The Incredible serenity of Timothy Hutchins
- Paula Robison videos
- Robert Langevin in recital
- Tonguing from the throat for four years
- Flute Duets - free online sheet music
- Bright vs Dark Flute Tone Qualities
- LSO on tour blog - Petrouchka's street musicians
- Free video Pahud plays Haydn Symphony 92
- This blog has moved
- Prokofiev Flute Sonata fingerings for high D triplets
- Spanish Music for Flute, Harp & Strings
- Galway's high register embouchure video
- Plugs in open-hole flutes
- Wedding Duets for Flutes
- Flute Concerti with orchestra, parts, score, piano all-in-one
- Pahud new Opera CD
- Galway - Embouchure observation
- Celtic Flute Trios for sale
- Psychology of an orchestral career
- Flute for Smarties (Dummies) great!
- Bach Chaconne with Bouriakov
- 21 year old Adam Walker wins LSO Principal
- Altering the Pitch to Play Along with a CD
- Flutes at outdoor and beach weddings
- High C fingerings & Mahler's 5th Symphony
- Marcel Moyse's embouchure instructions
- Chaminade too challenging for Honor Band audition?
- How to learn Etudes
- Just one flute lesson?
- The Adult Beginner - Is it all about Talent?
- Klickstein's book about practicing
- Teachers playing along with students?
- The frowning piccoloist
- The leadership style of great conductors
- Debost, locking pinky, and fan mail
- Beautiful Telemann by Il Giardino Armonico
- Bach Mobius Canon
- James Galway's Callouses
- Moyse plays Mozart D Major in 1930
- The Savvy Musician
- Videos of Flutist's Body Mapping
- Robert D. on Throat Tuning
- All you have to do is LISTEN - Rob Kapilow on CBC podcast
- Videos of Flute Teaching 'How tos' restored
- Bobby McFerrin scale demonstration video
- Galway on Moyse, Nagahara flutes etc.
- Cat Piano Concerto creativity factor
- Plainsong performed by Robert Aitken
- Peter & Wolf fingerings
- Just for Fun - Carnival of page turns
- Voliere or Aviary by Saint-Saens
- Mastery; by George Leonard
- Beginner resting flute on shoulder?
- Embouchure, Smilin' Juttin' and Jivin'
- Il flauto traverso by Gianni Lazzari
- Jaw motion for flute - Is your jaw jutting too much?
- Documentary - Trout Quintet - Watching Musicians at Work
- The Smile Embouchure & why it doesn't work
- Lorna McGhee teaching in a recent flute masterclass
- L'Apres Midi with Lorna McGhee & London Symphony
- How soon to introduce singing while playing?
- Slashes through note stems?
- Best right thumb position on the flute?
- Memorization, Metronome Tricks & Practice Tips
- Prokofiev Classical re-write for flute & piccolo
- Bouriakov plays Mendelssohn Violin Concerto E Minor
- Stagefright Cures - reimaging the outcome
- Paula Robison Vivaldi & Godard films from 1978
- over-working your practising? Try Underwood....
- How to repair a flute
- Can you buy a good quality pink flute?
- Thumbport left hand index finger support
- Can flute scales be more interesting to work on?
- Listen to flute CD by April Clayton
- Gustavo Dudamel and the Teresa Carre?o Youth Orchestra
- Rampal & Baker , Doppler Andante & Rondo
- James Galway Undine, Taffanel, Prokofiev Sonata on youtube
- Srul Irving Glick Sonata for Flute & Piano
- Get re-excited about really listening to music
- Marais to soothe the ancient ears
- Blast from the past; flute music from the '70s
- Defying gravity - flute keys that tilt backward
- Performing in a hall full of echoes
- Karen Smithson's valuable flute method books
- Adult re-starting flute on a budget
- How to tune a flute quartet or flute ensemble
- In the search box, question on how to get high B
- What are some good flute pieces?
- Historical timeline for choosing Flute Repertoire
- 8 year old Emma's Recital
- What does practising look like?
- Tromlitz flute book online
- Debost's Simple Flute from A to Z online at google books
- Baxtresser articles; great resource
- Incredible flute inventions for the 21st century
- Isabelle Chapuis Starr interview
- Flexible Flute Embouchure; letter from a happy flutist
- Excellent Christmas Duet Book by Vance
- Part 2 of Tone, Technique, & Releasing unecessary flute tensions....
- Tone, Technique, & Releasing unecessary flute tensions....
- James Galway's Paris Recital on mp3
- De Falla Seven Spanish Songs video
- Linda Chatterton radio interview & performance
- Syrinx & Marais Folies to hear online (free)
- Music Theory for Flutists
- Beginner & Novice level Studies or Etudes for Flute
- Books of interest
- Playalong Flute CDs & sheetmusic books with CD for flute
- Alexander Technique videos for flute players
- John Rush flute listening
- Practical advice on flutist's balance & flexibility
- Galway talks about flute arm pain
- Prodigies & regular humans
- Flute tapers, fade-outs, diminuendos, note endings, soft-endings
- How to stand using a music stand
- The articulation "Ah HA!" discovery
- Widor Suite played by James Galway
- Flute Scales Flute Scales Flute Scales Whoooeeee!
- Will-o'-the-wisps in a musical performance
- Galway on Moyse Sonorite
- Stretching & loosening exercises for the flutist
- How to Clean a Flute
- Fletcher Flute Acoustics Article from 1974
- Flute Business Portfolio creation
- Now THIS is great teaching!
- Some of my favourite things...Argerich playing Prokofiev
- The Norman Lebrecht interviews on BBC3
- The Flute & the Jaw Bone
- Questions from beginner flute players
- How to tune a flute
- headjoint cork affects tone & tuning
- Updating the RCM Flute Syllabus
- Ode to Joy with metronome
- Truly moving an audience - fantasy& gnocchi
- Performing music with Authority or Authenticity?
- Benjamin Zander film 'Everybody really does love Classical Music'
- More practising motivation tips for flute
- How to get back into flute after a hiatus
- How to Really Bomb a Masterclass
- Sewing flute case covers
- Soul satisfying summer flute practising
- The Triangle of Flute Skills
- Skills for advanced flute students
- Flute Care for beginners
- Hand & Arm Strain, and Flute Headjoint Alignment
- Free Mozart & Scarlatti flute duet sheetmusic
- Jen performs Piazzolla Histoire du Tango 1 & 2
- Jen performs Piazzolla Histoire du Tango 3 & 4
- Jen performs Ravel & Ibert
- Jen plays Glick Sonata 1st mvmt
- free flute scale piano accompaniments
- Flute tone videos on Youtube helped!
- National Youth Orchestra
- Double Tonguing on Flute
- Pain in practise, not in performance
- Fluteloops 10 radio show with James Boyk
- Flute Fingering Chart for free
- Bezaly plays Lindberg Concerto, free tracks
- Flute Recitals listings of Fenwick Smith
- The Art of Possibility by Zander
- flute fingering chart to fill in with new fingerings
- Winter Music for Free
- Moyse Flute tone advice
- Teaching Tone videos 2 & 3
- Teaching Tone video no. 1
- What's the deal with LONGTONES?
- links to other flute technique free pdfs & mp3s
- Free major-minor scales with harp harmony
- Piccolo exercises online
- Outstanding new Galway teaching videos
- Free groovy flute beginner & novice music
- A Day in the life of a University Flute Major
- Skill Levels for Incoming College Flute Majors
- Alexandra Grot video
- Martin Ballade by McGarr on YouTube
- Seeing again; McGhee CDs; Wye NFA; lip trembling
- Flute Pitch Naming
- Fab free flute concert online - Hutchins, Hoeppner etc.
- Denis Bouriakov might just blow your tiny mind!
- When I play all-tongued, I thpit too much
- Playing the flute in tune
- Expanding Intervals Warmup
- Scalegame playalong mp3 to download
- The Secrets of Playing in an Orchestra
- Playing with tone colours
- Centering the embouchure in a grade 7 student
- Fluteloops Radio Show No. 9
- Military posture or parallelism
- Flute Quality & Longevity when buying
- Piano mp3 accompaniment tracks
- Gilbert on Facility vs. Technique
- Flute Trills & how to read and play them
- How to Market Your Music CD
- Jazzy flute choir pieces with percussion?
- The Top Ten Reasons to Take Flute Lessons
- The misuse of a single middle finger and what it means to me... :>)
- Fluteloops Number Eight!! :>)
- Mozart Andante in C - What grade is that?
- Trouble getting started with today's practicing?
- Flute Rockin' wid' Rockstro
- Feeling Awareness & freeing tension
- Galway's Texas Masterclass 2007 on video
- Using the Mirror for Flute Tone Development
- James Galway at 50 now on YouTube
- Part Two video on Embouchure Flexibility
- New Video on Embouchure Flexibility
- Muscle soreness at exam time
- On grading musical magnificence
- Flute Lessons after a debilitating illness
- Professional Flute Performance Videos Online
- Why are flute discussion groups like Cartalk?
- Testing a New Flute on Trial
- Why some flute brands and not others?
- Tricky Trills
- Technical skill flute books
- Video on great flute books for articulation practice
- Teaching hand placement for the novice band-flutist
- Teaching headjoint-only & "Right Hand on the Barrel"
- Question about teaching a 12 yr. old beginner flutist
- Videos on flute cleaning & marking
- Flute Assembly Video on Youtube
- Quiet, quick, full breaths on flute
- James Galway's latest teaching mp3 EXCELLENT!
- Stagefright Interview Fluteloops shows 6 & 7
- Fluteloops 3, 4 & 5 on Stagefright Cures!!
- Sunday music that's beautiful on a sunny day
- James Galway Inteview on Fluteloops no. 2
- New Fluteloops Radio Show
- Baxtresser's best advice
- Band Director's Handout for Flutists
- Starting flute teaching
- Flute students dealing with braces
- Stagefright Cures
- Misfingerings common in band flutists
- Adult Re-Beginner Flutists
- How to learn flute scales
- Technique Duets for Spicing up Flute Lessons
- Spicing up your Flute Teaching
- Footjoint alignment - Easing the pinky's reach
- Throat noises while playing flute
- Last gig of the season
- New Home for my Website
- Buzzing Bees & Sharon Bezaly
- Are there any "how to teach flute" books?
- Getting a professional sounding flute TONE
- how to speed up the piece "Arrival of the Queen of Sheba"
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