There are at least 2 types of mistakes - 1 - Mistakes you think in your head, "I didn't mean to do that" 2 - Mistakes the audience thinks, "they didn't mean to do that." When you listen to your recordings, I want you to always be listening from these two perspectives! 1 - The audience! 2 - Your best flute teacher! When you listen as an audience I want you to start noticing those spots that sound like mistakes. You may notice that what you thought was a mistake at the moment turns out not to sound like a mistake in the recording! If that is the case, then you are probably getting good at the techniques we've been practicing in Improv Games to compensate when things don't go as planned! Do you hear anything that sounds like mistakes in my attached recordings? Name these tunes!

I am in DC helping my daughter and her family and had the opportunity to do some more exposure therapy on the mall of the Capitol with the Washington Monument in the background on one of the videos and the Capitol Building in the other video. My grandson was sweet to video it for me. I haven’t played for a week due to travel and being here, and I didn’t have time to warm up before I played. I appreciate Vic preparing me for moments like this in my lessons. I liked that I went into some hymns and I like that I did it with people walking by. It was fun. I would have improved in confidence and taking more time.

Bossa8.mp3 backing track. I tryng new style. I learned in this one to play more smooth try to match the notes worked in warmth of tone. I would like to do more of this style . Would like to improve the ending. Like to feel more if the dance.

I got my flute back from the shop and took it to the woods to improvise. I had been listening to ‘No Diggity’ so I used that and tooled around in F#. I like how I picked a simple motif from the song to lock in with. Next time I’d like to go off on my own ideas more rather than sticking to the song I remember.

Has anyone tried improv against any traditional Irish or Scottish tunes? I do this with the cello sometimes but haven't tried it on flute. Curious if anyone's found any tunes that sound particularly nice on flute.