Ever since I saw this TED talk by Daniel Kish - who's blind - talk about how he uses echolocation to navigate the world I listen to my flute differently. You will notice that the echos of your flute sound different in your practice room vs your garage vs outside vs an auditorium. Now, I listen carefully and I can "see" with my ears a little bit about my surroundings. It helps me know how it's going to sound to someone sitting at the back of the auditorium too. Hope you find this interesting!

Here you can find the backing track for "Colors Flying" in the key of C major. You can find the replays playlist here. Today was fun @Jess Hodges and @Nancy Tyler! Nancy was on fire! 🔥🔥

Do you know this song? I learned it today with a new skool group, Online Jam! I counted 3 rough moments. An accidental overtone a cracked note. Getting tired. But I really loved studying the melody of this ballad!!

Post a picture of you & your flute (or just your flute) in an outdoor scene! 🐥Most likes by April 30th wins a private lesson! PS - Check out @Jaye Marsh 's new album release, Flutes In the Wild V.2

I have been listening to Victor Wooten's book The Lesson, and it has been so helpful for me. It is a book that is liberating my playing, and what he is teaching goes along with everything Vic is teaching or unteaching us. I decided to try to play a random song that youtube suggests. I figured out the key and only used the first 3 notes of the scale to improv on, so I could focus on things like movement, dynamics, etc I found out the key was in Bb before I recorded this. Using only those 3 notes was very helpful and worked. What I liked, is that I felt like I was more free than ever and what I didn't like was that I jumped octaves too much in one phrase. If you haven't read or listened to The Lesson, I would highly suggest it.