How to play

This part is about the main thing: making music, of course using the flute. These pages are not made to replace lessons. They should not and they can not. I am an advocate for taking lessons. Here you will only find some appetizers, reminding of things one might already have heard.

• Physiology of flute playing (breathing, holding, how to stand or sit and so on)
• Fingerings for the flute
• Trills for the flute
• Practising fast passages
• Ornamentation: trills, mordents and so on
• Tuning a flute, intonation