Flute Warm-Up

Remember - When you practice at home…

START WITH A GOOD WARM-UP TO WORK ON YOUR TONE!!!

In band, nothing is more important than playing with a beautiful sound.

Head Joint Target Practice (1-2 minutes)• pick one or two patterns from this packet • connect notes!

Long Tones: Slur low to high - HOLD AS LONG AS YOU CAN!: E, F, G. A. B. C (2-3 minutes)

Scales!: use your scale handouts from beginning band• “Poh” or “Pew”• legato tongue• slur• We’ll add to your scale collection as we go through the year.

Once you’ve done a good warm-up…play MUSIC!!!

NOTE: If you are taking flute lessons, it is fine to use a different method of warm-up and tone development if your flute teacher has one they would like for you to use instead.

Advanced Band Fall Project (FLUTES)

The first Advanced Band rehearsal will be on Friday, December 9th. This project music be completed in order to attend! If you make sure to attend every band lesson and practice well enough to complete several items each time, you will make it!

#1. Demonstrate your “flute tricks” for warming up: • headjoint target practice• long tones (low to high) on the head joint• long tones (low to high) on the flute starting on low “E”, all the way up to “C”

#2. C Major Scale & F Major Scales• use your handout to practice!• you must be able to “sing and finger” an ascending scale from memory• you must be able to play smoothly up and down at 72 BPM (that’s not very fast!). You may

have up to three “free” attempts to perform it perfectly per lesson...more than three and we’ll try another time!

#3. Page 14: ALL LINES (you must complete all previous required pages before you can check this page off!)• clap and count out loud - practice with a metronome @ 72 BPM!• PLAY at the same tempo (slow and steady)• use SMARTMUSIC or the CD to have fun practicing at faster speeds!!!• you may skip #48

#4. Bb Major Scale• use your handout to practice!• you must be able to “sing and finger” an ascending scale from memory• you must be able to play smoothly up and down at 72 BPM (that’s not very fast!). You may

have up to three “free” attempts to perform it perfectly per lesson...more than three and we’ll try another time!

#5. Page 15: ALL LINES• clap and count out loud - practice with a metronome @ 72 BPM!• PLAY at the same tempo (slow and steady)• use SMARTMUSIC or the CD to have fun practicing at faster speeds!!!• you may skip #53

#6. Eb Major Scale• use your handout to practice!• you must be able to “sing and finger” an ascending scale from memory• you must be able to play smoothly up and down at 72 BPM (that’s not very fast!). You may

have up to three “free” attempts to perform it perfectly per lesson...more than three and we’ll try another time!

#7. Page 16: ALL LINES (Mr. Beall or a private teacher can explain “pickup notes”)• clap and count out loud - practice with a metronome @ 72 BPM!• PLAY at the same tempo (slow and steady)• use SMARTMUSIC or the CD to have fun practicing at faster speeds!!!• do not skip #59!!

#8. Rhythm Exercise #8 (included in this handout - Mr. Beall or a private teacher will need to give you a lesson on these rhythms) clap and count out loud!• play in slow steady rhythm on your instrument (pick an easy note)• practice to a metronome! (72 BPM is good)

#9. Page 18: #60, 61, & 62• clap and count out loud - practice with a metronome @ 72 BPM!• PLAY at the same tempo (slow and steady)• use SMARTMUSIC or the CD to have fun practicing at faster speeds!!!

#10: Dotted Quarter Note Handout (just follow instructions on the page)

Additional Requirements to qualify for JAZZ BAND are:•Ab Major Scale (from memory) - Mr. Beall will help you add it to your scale sheet•Accent on Achievement Pg. 20 (pg. 18 & 19 NOT required)•Descending Chromatic Scale (starting on high Bb-memorization not required) - use the handout from Mr. Beall not the one in Accent on Achievement.

The first Jazz Band rehearsal will be on Wednesday morning, November 8th! All these assignments must be completed in order to qualify!

Now that you are in Advanced Band, we’ll be getting to play some much more interesting and exciting music! One thing that makes this music more interesting is this useful note value...

Well, let’s start with an easy rhythm you already know and work from there. Clap and count this:

Now, how would it sound if we tied the first three eighth notes together like this?:

If a composer wants you to play this: They will most likely write it like this:

Try it a few more times. The timing of THIS 8th NOTE is very important!! When do you think you should play (or clap) it?

THAT is how to correctly count a dotted quarter note because....

is exactly the same as this

So...A dotted quarter note sounds the same as three 8th notes tied together.

Hopefully you remember from beginning band that dot AFTER a note adds half the value to the note.So, a dotted quarter note is one and a half beats long!

NOTE!!! This is NOT the same as a dot placed UNDER a note. You remember what that means...don’t you?

THE DOTTED QUARTER NOTE!!!!

Ok, that’s great Mr. Beall but… WHAT DOES THAT SOUND LIKE?!?!?

Have you got it? Let’s try adding a note on the next downbeat. How do you think this will sound?:

and this....

Once you can clap and count, and then play those on your instrument, you are ready for some examples. Here they are! Being able to perform these is absolutely required in order to:

Please do the following to get this handout “checked off” on your projects:• Label in the beats with a pencil (remember that?)• Clap and count out loud (slowly!)• Play on your instrument in a steady tempo (try practicing with a metronome!)

same note as“F#”

same note as“C#” (pink

y only!)

Descending (going down) Chromatic Scale:

Remember, the flute doesn’t know what it is doing. It can only reproduce what is in your head. If you can’t “sing and finger” then YOU don’t know what you are doing (just mindlessly guessing) and the flute itself has no chance!

B not Bb!

same note as“Bb” pinky only!

same note as“Eb”

same note as“Ab”

same note as“Bb”

Ascending (going up) Chromatic Scale:

Have you noticed that some “fingerings” can have two different note names?

These are called enharmonic spellings. Examples are:

“A#” is the same as “Bb”

“G# is the same as “Ab”

“F# is the same as “Gb”

“Eb” is the same as “D#”

Can you think of one more? (Hint: “pinky only!”)

Flute Chromatic Scale