Native American Style Flute: For Beginners And Intermediates

A playful approach to learning the Native American Style Flute

What you’ll learn
How to play the Native American Style Flute right from the very beginning
How to improvise and come up with melodic phrases
Special techniques to bring the flute to life
Playing from the heart and expressing emotion
How to play with others
How to learn songs

Requirements
You will need a Native American or Native American Style Flute with either 5 or 6 holes
A desire to learn and express yourself with music

Description
Would you like to learn how to improvise and play beautiful music on the Native American Style Flute?This course is complete and to the point, teaching you all you need to know about this amazing instrument.My name is Andrew Ford and I have been teaching music to people of all ages for over 12 years. I first came across the Native American Style Flute in 2011 and immediately fell in love with its tone and expressiveness and how relatively easy it was to play.Playing the Native American Style Flute has taken me on quite a journey of self-exploration and emotional healing. Its music stirs something in the soul and it has become my mission to share this music with as many people as possible.The course is organised step by step and will take you through all the basics of playing the flute and get you improvising right away. Then later on in the course you will learn more advanced techniques that will take your playing to the next level and allow you to play with real feeling and emotion so that you can create your own beautiful music.To make things as simple as possible, throughout the course you will see diagrams and close up shots so that you can see exactly what my fingers are doing. Also included are a number of play-along backing tracks to help you on your journey.With a little bit of practice and commitment, you’ll soon become a master of the Native American Style Flute. So I look forward to seeing you inside.

Overview
Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Overview

Lecture 2 How to get the most out of this course

Lecture 3 Anatomy of the Flute

Section 2: Basics

Lecture 4 Playing the Native American Style Flute

Lecture 5 Getting to know the Pentatonic Minor Scale

Lecture 6 Building Technique

Lecture 7 Theory of the Pentatonic Minor Scale

Section 3: Special Techniques

Lecture 8 Vibrato

Lecture 9 Ornaments

Lecture 10 Pitch Bends and Pipers Grip

Lecture 11 Extending the Scale

Section 4: Expressing Yourself

Lecture 12 Playing from the Heart

Lecture 13 My Journey & Emotional Healing

Section 5: The Wayfaring Stranger

Lecture 14 Introduction

Lecture 15 Play-through

Lecture 16 Basic Form

Lecture 17 With Embellishments

Section 6: Playing with Others

Lecture 18 Playing with a Guitarist

Section 7: Alternative Scales

Lecture 19 The Major Pentatonic Scale

Lecture 20 The Spanish Gypsy Scale

Section 8: Bonus Content

Lecture 21 Bonus Content

Beginners taking their first steps in music and those who want to take their playing to the next level