The Flute Suite Dr. Kathleen Weidenfeller

This is part two of my short series on practicing: How to help your students become more motivated to develop a personal practice. 
 
How to move from a 'telling' teaching style towards reflective questioning to develop awareness. The importance of being specific, lowering your expectations, and including movement, space, and awareness in lessons.
 
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I invite you to reflect on your own personal practice: not so much What you practice - but How you think and talk about it.

3 Pillars of good practice: Cultivating Joyful Curiosity, including Movement and Novelty, and remembering the need for Space and Time.
 
Some of the resources mentioned in this episode:


#music_360 #violincase (Hillary Hahn) #justanotherflutist Sophie Dufeutrelle: The Flutist's Way, book III #AmyLikar Reach out – you can find The Flute Suite on Instagram and Facebook, or me as Kathy Weidenfeller,flutist and at www.kathyweidenfeller.com
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Really nice to be back after a longer than planned break! 

A quick update and preview of up and coming episodes and other projects!

Nice to be back and talking with all of you - I'd love to hear from you as well!

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Reflections on this fall and the start of The Flute Suite as we reach the end of 2023! Thank YOU for listening!
 
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Best wishes for 2024!!

Here is part two of the wonderful conversation I had with Jaana Laasonen, flute teacher at the East-Helsinki Music Institute and developer of the Colour Flute method of early-instrumental teaching. 

2.10 Challenges in the Finnish instrumental education system
12.00 Our students are our best teachers
22.00 Solfege as a tool for musicianship and composition
27.00 The visual aspect of Kodaly

Jaana Laasonen is Lector of Flute at the East Helsinki Music Institute, and the creator of the ‘Colour Flute’ method, part of the 'Colourstrings' family: a method for beginning instrumentalists based on the theories and methods of Zoltan Kodaly. In this first part of our conversation, we talk about the importance of family and folk music in early instrumental education.
 You can find out more about the Colour Flute method here
2.25 Early musical experiences
9.51 Benefits of working with very young students
12.24 Connecting to Kodaly
22.34 Beginning with new flute students