As we roll into the New Year, many of us are in a retrospective mood - looking back on where we’ve been and looking forward to where we’ll go. This month let’s share: 🎁What’s your most heart-warming flute memory?🎁 It could be from this year or from all-time. Whoever’s gets the most likes wins a free session with me. Let’s learn about our flute friends!❄️ Check my message from yesterday with some important announcements here! Let's welcome our new members and learn a little about our flute friends! Begin leveling up by sharing your stories! @Jessica Minahan @Musa Washington @Juan Rangel @Nandin Baker @Victor Miller @Jamie Prater @Jessica Hodges @Jazzy Jazz @Greg Philip @Samuel Soste-Taffur @Jodie Mesler @Teresa Sandragorsian @Keith Williams @Jimmy Lambert @Jenn Flaa @Stephanie Pektas @Bethany Whitaker @Alan Kirk @Marta Schneider @Neva Kanelos @Ariel Zevon @LeeAnn Vincent @Carol July @Alberta Mobley @Fran Jeppesen @Lindsay Johnson @Adrienne McDonald @Vanessa Good @David Miller

I've now had a Pandora account for over 20 years! What I love about Pandora is that you can put in a song you like, and then it makes an educated guess as to which music you'll like and it plays those songs. When you 👍or👎a track it gets even better at guessing! One of my favorite stations is Om Namo Bhagavate Radio. Sometimes these radical flute solos come on and I just love it! But usually I am so in the flow when I'm listening that I never think, "who's playing that flute? I want to listen to this again!" Tonight I noticed this song with some really awesome flute and paused to take note for you!! So awesome that I made a new category of posts here: 🔊Listening List🎼! This is for sharing recordings of your favorite flutists... Help me fill it with videos of your favorite performances & performers! Don't forget to tell us why you love it. ☺️ I'm pretty sure this is Manose Singh playing flute on this recording! What I love about it: 🪈 The flute is really subtle in the beginning... low & slow. I love this texture. 🪈 The flute is the perfect compliment to the voices. I feel like the voice is there representing the spirit of the wind, like some mythical creature like a faerie, or an earthly flying creature like a dragonfly or butterfly. 🪈 I love how "free" the flute feels in the solo time & garnish time. Free-flowing, unencumbered... I envy this level of freedom and try to emulate it in my own playing! 😮 I'm jealous of those pitch bends! 🔷 Have you ever tried playing a bansuri flute? What did you learn about flute from the experience? PS - Join me on Monday nights after improv games for some fluting with songs not too different from this one and don't forget to share & read your most heart-warming flute moments in the January Intros Contest

Q. How many min a day do you have to practice? My Prescription for beginning to improve your improvising in 3-10 min a day: 🎤 Minute 1: Record yourself playing "Anyway Up" & "Anyway Down" by choosing a scale and improvising your way up & down the scale! This should only take about 30 sec. 🎧Then listen to your recording!🎧 Write: ✅ 1) One Thing You Liked! ⭕2) One Thing You'd like to improve... 🎵 Minute 2: Turn on a drone and record a "KISS" (stupidly simple) 30 sec free improv.🎧Listen to your recording!🎧 Write: ✅ 1) One Thing You Liked! ⭕ 2) One Thing You'd like to improve... 🎶 Minute 3: Record a 30-sec improv with the I-V chord progression backing track. 🎧& Listen!🎧 Write: ✅ 1) One Thing You Liked! ⭕ 2) One Thing You'd like to improve... The only ways to fail at this are to fail to write down what you liked and to fail to start! Post your recordings for support! This is for solidarity, not critique (unless you want it!). You're not alone!