Jade Bultitude 
Breathing is the most important technique to get right when you play the flute, or any wind instrument! So let’s explore how to teach breath control effectively! I mean, if you cannot breathe or control the air, you cannot make a sound and playing your instrument will be infinitely harder! But what exactly do we … Read more
I don’t know about you but this covid-19 crisis has got me working at a million miles an hour. With a full teaching schedule, baby twins and my own practice to do, there really seems to be no respite from the craziness! Work life is very much blending into home life and it seems impossible … Read more
Sight reading… these two words always seem to send students into a stressed frenzy! But just how do we achieve high marks in this often-feared aspect of a music exam or test. It is very important to go into your exam with a plan of how you will approach the sight reading. If you don’t, … Read more
We’ve have had a pretty stressful time of it recently and this week was the last straw for us because our boiler decided to explode boiling water everywhere and fall off the wall… not once but twice! What a drama! As you can imagine this caused us a real unprecedented amount of stress…I started thinking … Read more
Following on from last week’s post about why we should practise our scales, I thought it might be nice to look at how we can keep this fun! If you haven’t had a chance to read last week’s, take a look now. Playing your instrument should always be enjoyable even if we are practising something that … Read more