Posted By on June 26, 2010

The internet and the amazing technology allows for some wonderful ways to share music and song. Here is a link in which Terry is playing a duet live on blog tv. The host, Rod Krug is playing a deep bass A flute and Terry Mack is playing a higher A flute. Rod is in Colorado Springs, Colorado and Terry is in Nanaimo on Vancouver Island in BC Canada. It worked really welll considering the distance these two places are apart.
Click on this link to see the video.

You may have to watch a short advertisement before you see the duet.

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Posted By on June 3, 2010

Terry Mack, Gone Fluting owner and talented Native American Flute Player Co Hosts Didgerod’s Blog TV show, a live presentation online
June 25th – 6:00 PM, Pacific Daylight Time, 7:00 PM Mountain Standard Time

Terry will be a co-host on the popular blog tv show by Rod Krug, featuring the Native American Flute, other world flutes, crystal bowls and didgeridoo.
Rod Krug is a beautiful and talented player of the Native American Flute. Throughout his show he plays the Native American flute, the digderidoo,
crystal bowls and bansuari flutes. During portions of the show, Terry Mack, will co host playing her original Native American Flute music.

http://www.blogtv.com/People/didgerod

Please join us. It’s free, it’s fun, it’s relaxing and it is a great way to connect online with people from all over the world who share a love
of the Native American Flute.

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Posted By on June 5, 2011

Owned by Robert Gatliff, a long time enthusiast and explorer of the Native American Fllute, this site is full of resources for anyone wanting to know more.

Robert has included several songs in tablature format ( including the flute picture tablature) as well as listed several scales for people who want to break away
from playing the basic scale of the flute. I use this site on a regular basis with my flute circle and my flute students.

You can learn a little about the history of the flute and find some tips for playing aS well.

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Posted By on October 23, 2010

Clint Goss, a great flute player and creative sort of guy has added another great resource for people interested in the Native American Flute.
It covers everything from history to scales, with samples of songs, how to check out a flute, diagrams of the flute, and much more.
This is a wonderful resource for flute players.

Check it out at www.flutopedia.com

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Posted By on October 17, 2010

I have just recently acquired a wooden flute made by Chris Ti Cooms in the key of D that is more like a penny whistle. On the bottom two notes I can play 3 octaves. This is really interesting. The flute has a sound more similar to the rim blown flutes and is quite mysterious and mystical. It is probably more like an Irish penny whistle but the wood makes it sound wonderful

I also have a Stephen De Ruby shakusazi low C flute that has amazing sound, very similar to the Chris Ti Cooms flute however it does not play the other octaves. It was really fun to spend time playing both of these flutes back to back and trying the same song to see how the nuances could work from these two great makers. The added octave features of the Cooms flute are still a bit of a challenge and will require some ( lots and lots of practice) . It is really fun to have a bit more of a range to noodle around with.

I am currently loving both of these flutes.

Feel free to share some thoughts about flutes that you are experimenting with. I would love to learn more about what other flute players are doing.

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Posted By on July 4, 2010

Questions to ask a flute instructor.
You are excited.
You are at a flute festival and you have just signed up to take a lesson with one or two of those marvellous and talented flute players who perform at these events.
You are absolutely sure that you are going to learn something really great to help improve your playing. I am sure you will. I know I have.
Never having taken a private lesson (or any music lesson) from anyone on any instrument and bubbling with enthusiasm and anticipation I was quite unprepared for my first lesson. I thought they would just teach me however the first question any of the instructors would ask me was “what do you want to know?”
I simply couldn’t answer that. I didn’t even know what I didn’t know. Now there is a circular statement for you. It was true, I came to my first lesson expecting an instructor to listen to me and then impart some wonderful technique about how to improve my playing. Boy was I wrong. One instructor heard me play and then stated “ you play pretty well, what do you need lessons for?” It was at this point that I simply said, help me hear what I am doing so that I can improve my playing. Although this was a vague statement it did help the instructor get a sense of what I wanted to learn in the lesson.
After a few lessons I began to catch on how important it was for me to come up with a focus point for the lesson that I was to take. Since you only have a short time, it is important for you to really pay attention to your own playing and decide what you need to learn. Coming to your lesson prepared with this information will help you get the most benefit from the wonderful instructor you are meeting. The instructors really want to help you improve and input from you will give them a starting point.
Here are a few tips to maximize the time you get to spend with your chosen instructor.
• Before the lesson, spend time playing your flute and really listening to your own playing. Decide on something that you would like to improve better such as finger fluidity, breath control, structuring a song, mastering a fingering technique, playing with more notes or any other any other area you would like to improve.
• Take a voice recorder with you to record the lesson so that you can refer back to it. Ask the instructor if this is okay. Most of them will say yes.
• Take some blank tablature paper so that you can record any suggestions for playing a technique or a scale for future reference.
• If you have an interesting technique you would like to learn or have heard on a recording somewhere, bring that with you on your Iphone, MP3 player, CD player if you can. The instructor maybe able to help identify the technique and show you how it is done.

Aritcle can be reprinted, please acknowledge Terry Mack, www.gonefluting.com

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Posted By on February 28, 2010

Rich Dubé has been teaching music at inner city schools in Saskatoon for over 14 years. Both his Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal middle years and high school students put their heart and soul into creating their very own Native American style flutes. They take great pride in learning how to play a version of the authentic instrument that was created by North America’s First People. He has put together inexpensive kits that schools can purchase and have students make their own Native American Flute.

To visit his website, click here

An example of this process can be seen by clicking the link below.

Make a Native American Flute in five minutes

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Posted By on February 18, 2010

Her is a short video interview from R. Carlos Nakai, Native American Flute Player, Composer and Visionary.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3nhbnQR8WU

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Posted By on February 9, 2010

David Darling, a true innovator in the field of music improvisation and free creative expression has developed a musical bill of rights that supports any human being with an interest in making music. Along with flautist Bonnie Insull, they created the Music for People program in 1986.

A Bill of Musical Rights Developed by David Darling/Music for People

Human beings need to express themselves daily in a way that invites physical and emotional release.

Musical self-expression is a joyful and healthy means of communication available to absolutely everyone.

There are as many different ways to make music as there are people.

The human voice is the most natural and powerful vehicle for musical self-expression. The differences in our voices add richness and depth to music.

Sincerely expressed emotion is at the root of meaningful musical expression.

Your music is more authentically expressed when your body is involved in your musical expression.

The European tradition of music is only one sound. All other cultures and traditions deserve equal attention.

Any combination of people and instruments can make music together.

There are no “unmusical” people, only those with no musical experience.

Music improvisation is a unique and positive way to build skills for life-expression.

In improvisation as in life, we must be responsible for the vibrations we send one another.

NEWS ABOUT DAVID DARLING

David Darling has won his first Grammy for Best New Age Album at the 2010 Grammy Awards. Congratulations David!!!!!!!!

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Posted By on February 9, 2010

As I research more about how to promote your music, I am learning little tidbits that are useful to use when you start the process of creating an MP3 file. I am looking for tips and tricks to add to all of the categories that I will be adding to Gone Fluting. I invite you to contribute.

TIP #1
Tagging MP3 versions of your songs
For anyone posting a song as an MP3 version, it is important name it so that it can be easily found in the world of computers. There is a standard format that places sites like ITunes like to see. The format is:
Artist_Name_of_Song_mp3. An example from my duo Wind Weaver would be.
Wind_Weaver_Aerial_Wandering.mp3

Notice the use of the underscore_ to separate words. Most computers don’t read punctuation marks and spaces well. Using an underscore_as a space holder makes it easier for computers to look for your music file. Once you decide on a format, be consistent with it. Use it everywhere, even when sending your link to friends and family.

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