CONTENTS

Cover

Publisher Info

Using This eBook

Contents

Before You Begin

Approach to Practice

Parts of the Flute

Putting the Parts Together

How to Hold the Flute

Fingering Numbers

Fingering Diagram

The Note G

Playing Your First Note

Tonguing

Tuning Your Flute

How to Read Music

The Treble Clef

The Treble Staff

Music Notes

Note and Rest Values

The Four Four Time Signature

The Half Note

The Note G

Keeping Time

Breath Marks

Chord Symbols

The Half Rest

The Quarter Note

The Quarter Rest

The Note A

The Note B

The Note C

The Three Four Time Signature

The Dotted Half Note

The Note F

The Note B Flat

Key Signatures

The Whole Note

The Lead-in

The Common Time Signature

The Tie

12 Bar Blues

Breathing Technique

Other Useful Exercises

Posture

Incorrect

Correct

New Sounds and Rhythms, Registers, Sharps and Flats, Transposing

The Eighth Note

The Note E

The Note D

Registers

The Note D in the Middle Register

The Note F Sharp

The Natural Sign

The Dotted Quarter Note

The G Major Scale

Keys and Key Signatures

The F Major Scale

The Key of F Major

Transposing

The Note Low C

The C Major Scale

Key of C Major

Syncopation

The Eighth Rest

The Note B Flat in the Middle

More New Notes

The Triplet

Swing Rhythm

First And Second Endings

The Note C Sharp

The Blues Scale

Enharmonic Notes

Mixing Different Scales

Keys and Key Signatures

Relative Keys

Playing in All Keys