Index of articles....

      I wish to share more with you than comfortably fits on a single page, so each topic is discussed separately. Just click on the title of the article you wish to read....

• Familiarize yourself with the common naming conventions of the Native American style flute. You may either view this online, or download the PDF:
  • Naming conventions, as presented on my "Nomenclature" web page.
  • Naming conventions, presented as a downloadable PDF (free).
  
  
• Introduction — "Playing from the Heart"
  
• Quick Start
  
• Making sure your flute is working properly
  
• Holding your flute
  
• Forming an embouchure
  
• Breathing properly
  
• An introduction to few scales
  
• An introduction to notes, half steps, and flute keys — oh my!
  
• Identifying Notes by Interval Names

Online Resources....

• Naming conventions, presented as a downloadable PDF (free). (Note: This is the same PDF listed above.)
• One of the better introductions I have seen to the various scales we may wish to play is found on Clint Goss' web site. Go to his http://www.clintgoss.com/zion08handouts.html page and under the heading "Instructional Handouts" of click on "Basic and Exotic Scales" to down load this PDF. I found it to be quite informative, and easy to use.
• An already massive, and always growing, online resource for "all things flute" may be found on Flutopedia.com and I highly recommend you spend time browsing through this wonderful web site!

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Please note, while I admire much of the Native American culture, I am not a Native American Indian. So far as I know, my bloodlines are 100% European, including Welsh, English, Scottish, Irish, Holland, and German... along with a number of unknowns, I'm sure. One may properly refer to me as an European-American Mutt ;^) Although, in truth, I consider myself an American, not an European-American. My mother's bloodlines here in North America pre-date the American Revolution and my great-great-grandfather on my father's side was a circuit preacher in Kansas around 1900.