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Flute Tone Buliding

This will help students build their tone while playing in all octaves (Primary focus: Low octave)

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Flute Tone Buliding

This will help students build their tone while playing in all octaves (Primary focus: Low octave)

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Matt Allen Spencer
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Flute Tone Building

by Matt Spencer

The long tone is an excercise that helps


a musician, in this case a flute player, control and
perfect color tones in music. Here is an example of the long tone:

Largo

4U U
∑
U U
∑
&4 w #w #w w
*Continue to
lowest note
The Idea of the fermata on both notes
(and not the rest) is so that the breath is
spread out evenly between both notes.
It builds the tone on each note
chromatically to the lowest C *(or B depending
on the flute's footjoint).
The notes should be played to sound
strong and dark to weaker and mellow.
To get a stronga nd dark sound a
flautist must "frown" while playing.
To get a weaker and mellow tone a flautist
must "losen" the embrochure on the flute.

© 2010 Matt Spencer

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