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Favorite blog posts, August 2015

January 1, 2018August 31, 2015 by Bret Pimentel

Clarinetist Michael Dean examines some resources available for better-informed preparation of the Cyrille Rose “40” and “32” études.
David Erato compiles some piccolo tips by some top working flutists and doublers (and also me).
Saxophonist David Freeman shares some settings for the kinds of electronic filter sounds used by Michael Brecker and Jeff Coffin.
Josh Johnson shares in exhaustive detail the flutes he tried out at the NFA conference. For gear junkies only.
Heather Roche demonstrates some extended techniques specific to the “paperclip”-style contrabass clarinet.
Saxophonist Bill Plake discusses some benefits of practicing with a drone.
The unnamed mom at How About Oboe? gets her 10-year-old oboist to practice difficult things for just two minutes at a time.
Cate Hummel brings things back to Earth about the flute and the so-called lip “teardrop.” (I also hinted at that topic in a recent post.)

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