Enchanted Beginnings

Todd Chaplin

Description

Enchanted Beginnings is the essential quickstart ebook for the Native American Style Flute, Drone Flute, and Mayan Temple Flute. Learn the skills required to get you started on your flute journey - how to setup the flute, introductory techniques and playing practices.Beautifully produced, with easy to follow instruction and a multitude of full colour photos, diagrams, and specially created flute playing notation and sheet music included, our ebook also contains links to the Southern Cross Flutes online learning suite, where you can watch and listen to the videos that support and extend learning at no extra cost!Southern Cross Flutes also publishes the comprehensive Native American Style Flute guidebook, 'Enchanted Journeys' containing in-depth playing information, exercises, music, bonus instructional DVD and links to online learning media for the NASF, Drone and Mayan Temple Flutes - all in one package that will advance your playing for years to come (available in print and ebook).

Informations

• Publié par: Saraswati Publishing NZ
• Date de parution: 16 avril 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9780473321789
• Langue: English

Extrait

Enchanted Beginnings – The QuickStart Guide for the Native American Style Flute
 
Published by Saraswati Publishing NZ
Book design by Todd Chaplin
Photography by Matt Hunt
Flute fonts by Clint Goss
Song arrangement by Clint Goss
Video icon by Appzgear
 
First Edition, published 2014
 
Copyright © 2014 Southern Cross Flutes LTD
All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
ISBN 978-0-473-32178-9
Printed by Fuji Xerox, Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand
 
Contents
Introduction
How To Use This Book
Flute Care
Troubleshooting
The Native American Style Flute
Getting Setup
The Basic Scale
A Simple Song
Next Steps With Your NASF
The Drone Flute
Getting Setup
The Basic Scale & A Simple Song
The Mayan Temple Flute
Getting Setup
First Exercises
Next Steps With Your Mayan Temple Flute
Find Out More
Catalogue
Southern Cross Flutes Online
Enchanted Journeys Playing Book & DVD


 
Introduction
The Native American Style Flutes that I craft are played by diverse people, for many purposes. Sometimes we play for heartfelt expression, sometimes we play for the deep resonating tones that soften the mind and bring peace, and sometimes we play for the healing of self and others. Southern Cross Flutes invites you to journey with us on these interweaving paths.
As a New Zealander, I had never met another flute player until I went to Australia in 2010. Matt Shooting Star, my first flute friend, was also my first flute teacher. It wasn’t until I left for the USA in April 2010 that I entered into a fabulously vibrant and diverse NASF community. How lucky and excited I felt! I met my NASF heroine, Mary Youngblood; I camped in the desert; and for weeks I played music with new friends, climbing in the mountains where wild bears listened and the canyons echoed to our music. It was a dream, and I feel such a deep sense of happiness and thanks for the NASF world and its growth here in Aotearoa/New Zealand. We are part of a new wave of musicians exploring an old instrument that captivates, fascinates and uplifts us.
Trusting in my journey with the flute, I was led towards two mentors: my new friend Matt Shooting Star and Guillermo Martinez, kind and compassionate men who opened their lives to share their craft. It is to these two generous people I offer my greatest respect, as they gave me the opportunity to develop my Southern Cross Flutes and further the NASF community in New Zealand. The name Southern Cross Flutes refers to the spirit, the deeper meaning and inspiration, behind these flute creations; the constellation that enchants my imagination under the Southern Stars.
Today the NASF is played widely throughout the world, though mainly in the USA, where NASF communities exist in most states. Flute players gather monthly at flute circles, where people share their new flutes and new songs, where they play together and experience the beauty of their flutes and their souls’ creations. There are also many professional recording artists who teach flute workshops and give one on one tuition. Here in Aotearoa/New Zealand we have our local flute community, an annual residential Flute Camp, and flute circles growing and developing in Wellington, Auckland, and Christchurch; be sure to check our website for updates, as well as our Facebook pages: Southern Cross Flutes and New Zealand Flute Circle .
How To Use This Book
This book is a beginner’s guide to flute playing and maintenance. You’ll find the Free Video Flute Tutorials useful, available via the Southern Cross Flutes website and YouTube Channel .