Best Double Tongue EXCERPT Practice - Saint-Saëns Volière - Flute Tube, Episode 80

The Saint-Saëns Volière flute solo from his Carnival of the Animals can be an important daily technique exercise for us. Many serious flute students at Cincinnati College-Conservatory and The Juilliard School have used it to work on double tonguing; it was part of Brad Garner's "Big Ten Daily Exercises" routine for his students at those schools.

Here are some of the thoughts you'll find in this video:
0:00 Introduction to the Big Ten Daily Exercises
0:54 Best Double Tonguing Excerpt "Runner Up"
1:27 Be Double-Tongue-Aware!
2:42 Stay Light with Fingers, Too
4:19 Dynamics of a Small Bird
5:32 Know Your Typos
6:37 Have Your Mozart Moment
7:16 Back to Typos--
7:53 One More Tip to Practice This
8:17 My Personal Payoff from Practicing this Excerpt
10:41 Coda to my Story

Here is an IMSLP link, if you need to get hold of the Saint-Saëns Volière. I know these links can be finicky! If it doesn't work, you can always search for Saint-Saëns Volière flute part, IMSLP. It's a free flute part!

Saint-Saëns Carnival of the Animals, Volière:
https://imslp.org/wiki/Le_carnaval_de...)

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