Master Flute Playing: Intermediate Instruction Made Simple! (Udemy.com)
Move beyond beginner with MusicProfessor's intermediate Flute course. A year's worth of lessons in just a few hours!
Created by: MusicProfessor Online Music Lessons
Last updated July 2022
What you will learn
- Play the full, natural range of the flute
- Flutter tongue
- Interpret when, where, and how to use vibrato
- Play for longer periods without fatigue thanks to numerous strength-building exericses
- Interpret dynamic markings
- Play expressively with phrasing, dynamics, and vibrato
- Read complex rhythms and meters like 6/8 and Cut Time
How it compares
Against the other 270 rated Udemy courses in Music on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.7 out of 5higher than 61% of them
- Reviews243#118 of 271 by number of reviews
- Length5 hourslonger than 63% of them
- Last updatedJuly 2022earlier than 61% of them
Course Description
|| COURSE DESCRIPTION ||
Looking to improve your flute playing? MusicProfessor can help you make the most of your practice. Pick up where MusicProfessor's Beginner Flute course leaves off, adding more complex rhythms, scales and tone exercises to your repertoire.
And save money while you study with us! Private lessons are expensive. Each MusicProfessor Flute course provides an entire year’s worth of lessons, for a fraction of the cost, and at your own convenience.
Join over 18,000 fellow MusicProfessor students and begin your studies today!
|| COURSE FEATURES ||
- 100+ video lessons
- Downloadable sheet music
- Animated fingering charts
- Flute equipment recommendations
- Flute-specific troubleshooting tips and advice
- Multiple warm-up techniques
- A guide to flutter tonguing
- Dozens of melodies and songs
- Technique-building exercises
- Major scales and scale exercises
- Produce and implement vibrato
- Music Theory
MusicProfessor's curriculum is used in nearly 100 schools and school districts throughout the United States and by more than 18,000 students and music teachers throughout the world. Nowhere else can you find the level of detail and professional instruction of MusicProfessor's curriculum.
Fulfill your musical destiny by enrolling today!
|| NOTABLE REVIEWS ||
“Lisa (flute), with her sense of humor, enthusiasm and at the same time, maintaining professionalism, keeps it interesting!"
-nppotdar
"I struggle with going flat the softer I get on higher notes, so I opened up Music Professor and sure enough they had a lesson to help me with my problem. I highly recommend that you use Music Professor if you are having any types of problems on your instrument."
-E. Doctor
“The intermediate course is really effective, and covers the essentials. The instructor does an exemplary job in presenting the materials, and she is very pleasant and personable. I worked hard, so my results might not represent the norm, but I feel that I am at a lower intermediate level, perhaps ready for the advanced course. Both the beginning and intermediate courses were essentials for me, as I had never held a flute, much less attempted to play one. “
-Bruce Henderson
|| ABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR ||
Lisa Garner Santa currently serves as Artist-Performer and Professor of Flute at Texas Tech University where she enjoys a diverse career as teacher, recitalist, soloist, and chamber musician. Performance highlights include the world premiere of Mike Mowers Concerto for Flute and Wind Ensemble and a Carnegie Hall debut recital featuring Chamber Works for Flute.
As an active member of theNational Flute Association, Dr. Garner Santa recently served as Program Chair for the 2011 convention in Charlotte, NC, and continues to serve as a member of the NFA Executive Committee. She has been a featured performer at the Boston, Atlanta, Phoenix, Dallas, Nashville, Kansas City, and Las Vegas conventions as well as an adjudicator and/or coordinator for many NFA events and competitions including the High School Soloist Competition, the NFA Newly Published Music Competition, the NFA Professional Flute Choir Competition, and as the NFA General Competitions Coordinator.
As a pedagogue, Lisa Garner Santa presents masterclasses throughout the United States and abroad. Recent international exchanges include masterclasses at the Royal College of Music in London, England and Victoria University in Wellington, New Zealand. Presentations and performances at various regional and national conventions include invitations from theTexas Music Educators Association, the Texas Music Teachers Association, the National Association of Wind and Percussion Instructors, and theCollege Music Society. Her research and pedagogical articles are frequently published in The Flutist Quarterly, Flute Talk, and The Instrumentalist.
In recognition of her creative teaching, she was awarded the Texas Tech Big 12 Fellowship as well as the Texas Tech Alumni Association New Faculty Award and is also an elected member of Texas Tech University’s prestigious Teaching Academy.
With co-authors Matthew Santa and Thomas Hughes, Lisa Garner Santa developed theFlute/Theory Workout, a method that efficiently introduces full-range scalar and chordal flute technique while introducing music theory fundamentals at the same time. The Workout, which comes with an entertaining accompaniment CD, is available throughCarolyn Nussbaum Music Co., and Flute World.
Dr. Garner Santa holds performance degrees from West Texas State University, Florida State University, and The Shepherd School of Music at Rice University. Her teachers to whom she is eternally grateful include Carol Wincenc, Charles DeLaney, Sally Turk, Helen Blackburn.
In addition to her active role as a flutist, Lisa Garner Santa is also a certified Kripalu Yoga Instructor and member of theYoga Alliance. She teaches Yoga for Musicians at the TTU School of Music and Kripalu Yoga classes at various locations throughout Lubbock.
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Instructor Details
- 4.7 Rating
243 Reviews
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Nowhere else can you find the level of detail and professional instruction of MusicProfessor's curriculum. Fulfill your musical destiny by signing up today.
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Reviews
By Althea Told-Me Garcia on 8/8/2021
I 100% recommend this flute course. The value for the number of lessons and amount of information is excellent. I am self-taught and read music. My level is beginning intermediate. I love the teacher and the program, and I am quite picky. Thank you!
By Claudia Hammann on 11/14/2020
After finishing the first course I just started the second and it's simply perfect! Adequately small steps, brillantly explained, very nice teacher with just the right amount of humour. Couldn't wish for more! Well - after half of the course things become really challenging and worth practicing! Absolutely wonderful for a straight progress!
By Amy Lambert on 9/10/2020
This is a very thorough training. I learned a lot about playing the flute. I especially appreciated her instruction on 6/8 time! I also liked learning about alternative fingerings for the third octave. Now I want to return to taking more flute lessons and playing in a group again.
By George Sonu on 6/18/2020
It's good to see the fingering from a different angle. Also, the teacher explains everything in detail. However, I feel like if there were writings on the video, it would be super helpful.
By Skip Taylor on 5/22/2019
I was very surprised at learning the new Bb fingering. This teacher is very good at teaching and gives very clear and understandable instructions. I like how she takes things slow at first and lets me listen to her before I start playing.
By SDavid Munozvilla on 4/25/2019
This flute course has helped me in ways I never imagined. I can play faster and better with ease I didn’t have before. I recommend this course for every flute player to touch up on their skills. It was definitely a good match for me.
By Shanni Bee on 2/23/2019
Love this teacher. I began with zero flute skills, but after completing her beginner course and committing to daily, disciplined practice to master the skills taught in this intermediate course, I am so pleasantly surprised at how well I am starting to play.
By Jan Stafford Clark on 11/26/2018
yes yes this course is a good match for me. I've been playing flute for 4 years now at church. I've been playing piano for 30 years so I knew many of the fundamentals. I know I have gaps since I've never taken any lessons. This level is an excellent match for me.
By Carissa Martus on 3/27/2018
Very helpful and informative course. My main objections come with playing the exercises; the teacher expects the students to be able to play fast scales and songs at full speed the first time through. It would be extremely helpful if she played scales slowly and gradually worked up the speed; as it is, I really have to learn the scales and songs myself.
By Bruce Henderson on 3/12/2016
The intermediate course is really effective, and covers the essentials. The instructor does an exemplary job in presenting the materials, and she is very pleasant and personable. I worked hard, so my results might not represent the norm, but I feel that I am at a lower intermediate level, perhaps ready for the advanced course. Both the beginning and intermediate courses were essentials for me, as I had never held a flute, much less attempted to play one. I think I started in June or July with the beginning course, purchased the intermediate in November, and now, in mid March, I have made a great deal of progress relative to my expectations. I don't much care for the pricing structure of Udemy, because it appears that they charge separately for the first two, then charge another hundred dollars more for "all three courses", when I already own the first two...Oh, well, perhaps they will explain the logic of that to me someday.
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