Handout: Blogging to build your woodwind career

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I gave a presentation at last week’s Mid-South Flute Festival on blogging as a means for enhancing a performing/teaching career. The handout says “flute” on it, but I think the advice really is pretty generally applicable.

Blogging to Build Your Flute Career (PDF)

Introducing ReedCast™: scientific woodwind reed quality forecasting

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Woodwind players know that the way a reed plays is subject to factors like elevation, temperature, humidity, and atmospheric pressure. My new web application, ReedCast™, helps to eliminate some of the guesswork. (Or does it?)

Favorite blog posts, March 2015

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Hand-picked high-quality woodwind-related blog posts from around the web, March 2015 edition.

Handout: woodwind voicing

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I have written about voicing here before. I find it to be one of the most neglected topics in woodwind teaching, and when it is taught, is is often taught without a lot of clarity. This is a shame because voicing is crucial to good tone production, affecting response, tone, and intonation.

Three stages of practicing

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As my musical standards, maturity, and commitment to practice time improved, it became clear that beginning-to-end practicing was not the best use of my time.

Favorite blog posts, February 2015

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Hand-picked high-quality woodwind-related blog posts from around the web, February 2015 edition.

Fingering Diagram Builder, version 0.6

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I have just released version 0.6 of the Fingering Diagram Builder. It’s almost a maintenance release, that mostly just attempts to fix a few problems and add a little polish. Your suggestions and bug reports are, as always, welcome (as are your donations, social media pings, links, etc.). Go play around with it or read … Read more

Making sense of third-octave flute fingerings

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I recall as a beginning flutist (coming from background in saxophone) finding the third-octave fingerings to be a confusing, illogical jumble, but they do actually make some sense. There is an incorrect explanation for these fingerings that I hear every so often, and have seen published on a couple of flute-related blogs recently. It goes … Read more

Voicing: stable vs. flexible

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There seems to be some debate about voicing: is it something static, or something that changes from note to note? I find that the answer is, sort of, both.

Favorite blog posts, January 2015

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Hand-picked high-quality woodwind-related blog posts from around the web, January 2015 edition.