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Digital Download: The Step-by-Step Guide to Teaching Beginner Flute
Digital Download: The Step-by-Step Guide to Teaching Beginner Flute
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New Release for Flute Educators!
A practical, research-informed guide to teaching healthy flute technique from day one.
Whether you're a private studio teacher, band director, or school music educator, Teaching Beginner Flute provides a comprehensive roadmap for helping students develop a strong foundation in flute playing.
- Based on the latest neuroscience in learning and habit formation
- Step-by-step strategies for isolating and automating key flute skills
- Solutions for common tone and technique issues
- Visual analogies, teaching cues, and corrective tips
- Ideal for individual or group instruction
Grounded in years of teaching experience and a Master’s research project, this book introduces the Six Fundamental Pillars of Beginner Flute Playing:
- Breathing
- Embouchure
- Tonguing
- Tone
- Physical Set-Up
- Air Parameters for Pitch & Dynamics
Give your students the best start possible with a method that promotes healthy playing habits, long-term success, and confident musicianship.
Available now!
Perfect for flute teachers, music educators, and university pedagogy programs.
How the book works
Fundamentals
The first few pages of the book include written and video information to help guide the student to establish the essential fundamentals of flute playing, to set them up for a lifetime of healthy flute playing.
New notes
Each new note is introduced in a new colour to help with note reading skills.
Duets
After every second lesson there are two pages of duets. These duets can be used for sight-reading practise or as revision material. It’s also an excellent way to train students to play independently while a different part is being played.
Marking
Each lesson has a criteria page for marking each individual exercise and piece. This is designed to serve as a personal record of the student’s progress and not as a comparison to the other students. Once a student has completed each lesson, (generally each lesson can be completed in a week if regular practise is completed) the student receives a coloured loom band or piece of thread in the same colour as the lesson name. This is an important part of the program and gives the student a feeling of accomplishment and completion. The coloured band can be attained even if the student only receives C’s for the lesson. This allows the student to remain engaged and interested, and for them to keep up with others, (if they are learning in a group). They are encouraged, however, to go back and revise any songs with a B or C grading in order to improve their mark, whilst progressing to the next lesson.
Practising
The criteria page also has a place for the student to record their weekly practise, with a sticker earned for doing 5 or more practises of 10-15 minutes per day. This can be broken up into 5-minute slots if time is an issue, or the student is getting dizzy from hyperventilating. There is also a space for the teacher to write specific comments for each student, to remind them what they need to focus on during the week.
About the Author
About Joanna
Joanna Sullivan is a flute performance graduate of the Victorian College of Arts. She also has a Master of Music Education from the University of Queensland. Joanna has taught flute at the Queensland Conservatorium of Music and many prestigious private schools in Melbourne, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. She continues to perform, both as a soloist and as a member of many different ensembles, as she believes her performance skills inform her teaching.
Joanna's teaching philosophy
“Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Involve me and I understand.”
Teaching one-to-one in a studio environment is a privilege for both the student and teacher, as it provides an optimal learning environment in which to foster and encourage learning in a nurturing and holistic way.
As a studio flute teacher with over 40 years experience, Joanna passionately strives to understand and develop what she teaches and how she teaches. This led her to develop the Fab Flute Player in the hope that it would enhance the learning capabilities and progress of all flute students, for a lifetime of healthy playing.