Sonorité, legato. smooth beautiful lines carrying a very simple tune…..

In this months' Adult Learners Sessions and throughout the summer we shall be working each week using Moyse’s famous book 24 Petites Etudes Mélodiques or in English: 24 Little Melodic Studies.

Each one of these studies may look very simple (hence the name), but as with any etude or musical tune it requires us to use all our resources to play a beautiful simple line.

What are our resources, what are we striving for?

• a beautiful tone connecting one note to another - Sonorité
• a smooth touch on the keyboard
• a light touch with your tongue (never hearing the tongue above the tone) as you begin the phrase or play on the variations on the tune
• and of course always being mindful of the breathing. Breathing from our core, allowing the air to follow up an out with your beautiful focused embouchure.

A flutists dream yes.  Your goal, yes.

Our Goal together using the resources and techniques we have learned throughout the last few months.