Managing our playing .. in the practice room , rehearsal or on the stage

How do we take ourselves and all we have been working  daily practice into real life situations without falling apart?

Performing in front and with others  like anything else is  a skill  acquired through practice and experience.   A skill easily acquired with the right preparation … positivity, calm and focus..  are the mental attributes

But the real work is your daily preparation with your flute in your private practice sessions with  clarity and focus…

Even if you are only playing for 15 minutes,, know what you are doing  own it and enjoy it!

In these October sessions I shall take you once again through your practice routine playing scales, tone exercises challenging yourself and energizing your mind as you play.

Through the repertoire we will work on in these sessions I shall show you how to practice for performance .

This is skill I had to acquire myself.  Little by little my nerves settled down &  the musician i was to become came through in all situations.

Remember we are only the messengers for the composers and their music. What a wonderful gift we have been given!

Tone: Moyse Sonorité- Pg. 9
Galway Warm up exercise

Technique Development

Taffanel/ Gaubert 17 Daily exercises :

• EJ1- Starting on the upper octave using different articulations. each exercise 2x
• Scales : EJ3- choose 2-4 scales including the ones contained in your choice of repertoire

Etude:

• Moyse:24 Petite Etudes Mélodiques
  #9- (pg.6)  Entire page: Andantino - as written and one active above, ( focus on the rhythm ), 1a and 2a  as written

Repertoire:

• Poulenc Sonata- Movt. 2- Cantilena-( Assez lent )                      Haydn- Serenade
  Mozart - Divertimento in D Maj.
  Gaubert- Madrigal

Your choice