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Sight Reading

Many people probably already know about the "18 Exercises for Flute but I'm currently trying to get my reading to a very proficient level and I ran across the 18 Exercises for Flute by B.T. Berbiguier. What a gold mine! Here's the sight where they are free and in my opinion some of the best reading material available for vibe players is right on that site and it's endless so I thought I'd share.

https://www.flutetunes.com/tunes.php?q=18+exercises

8WOB - Blue In Green - Simple Dampening Etude With Lines by Behn Gillece

Chinese Translation is for Chinese students
如果你還沒看過"止音Dampening"那一系列的中文課程,先去看,然後再回來練習。

這是一個很好結合練習止音、即興、耳朵(音感)二合一的練習方式。
踏板踩到底,只用棒子止音,讓所有旋律線條不要髒掉。

8MAD - Developing A Turnaround Line - Day 1

Turnaround lines are very important in jazz because we see progressions all the time like 2-5-3-6, 1-6-2-5 etc. The more vocabulary you learn over turnarounds, the better! Turnarounds aren't just at the ends of forms, but can be anywhere within a tune. Start off this week with this simple line I came up with. It's very diatonic, and it's supposed to be a lesson in how you can still make the changes without too much altering of chord tones.