Enchanted Journeys: The Essential Guide for the Native American Style Flute

By Todd Chaplin, Simon Delahunt and Alys Titchener

Learning to play the Native American Style Flute?
Did you buy a flute and found it came with inadequate instruction? Have you tried numerous other books, DVDs, or YouTube videos, but found them all confusing, limited or outdated?
Are you looking for a product that brings it all together in a step-by-step way?

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Enchanted Journeys ePub provides detailed, easy-to-follow instruction on topics including:

Native American Style Flute History
The Basics of Playing
How to Care for your Flute
Rhythm for Flute
Scales
Melodies & Songs (with specially created flute-specific musical notation)
Techniques & Embellishments
How to Play with Others
Improvisation
Drone Flute as well a Mayan Temple Flute playing
And much more!


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• Language: English
• Publisher: eBookPartnership
• Release date: Jan 28, 42
• ISBN: 9780473308810

Book preview

Enchanted Journeys: The Essential Guide For The Native American Style Flute

Published by Saraswati Publishing NZ

Book design by Todd Chaplin

Photography by Matt Hunt

Flute fonts by Clint Goss

First Edition, published 2014

Copyright © 2014 Southern Cross Flutes LTD

All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

ISBN 978-0-473-30881-0

This book is dedicated to my teachers Matt Shooting Star and Guillermo Martinez for their generosity.

With thanks to my teachers, my editors Simon Delahunt and Naomi Knight, contributions and feedback from Clint Goss, to Matt Hunt photography, videography by Warren Butcher, and my loving and supportive Aly.

Contents

Enchanted Journeys: The Essential Guide For The Native American Style Flute

Overture

How To Play Along using This Book

The Native American Style Flute: Beginning

Origins

Know Thy Flute

Breathing With Your Flute

Troubleshooting

Your First Scale – The Basic Scale

Your Next Steps With The Basic Scale

Basic Scale Practice – New Finger Pattern

Introducing Rhythm & Note Duration

Practicing Intervals

Flute Tuning

Flute Note Fingering Chart

Flute Care

Beyond The Basics: Advancing

Techniques & Embellishments

Scales For The Flute

Blossoming As A Player

Improvisation

Playing With Others

Song Structure

Healing With Flutes

Music For Flutes

The Drone Flute

Origins

Know Thy Drone Flute

Drone Flute Playing

Mayan Temple Flute

Origins

Know Thy Mayan Temple Flute

Your First Melody

Next Steps With Your First Melody

Advancing With The Mayan Temple Flute

Mayan Temple Flute Care

Mayan Temple Flute Tuning

Find Out More

Recommended NASF Solo Artists & Groups

References

Appendices

Posture

Stretches

Using Technology

Learn To Read Nakai Tablature

Catalogue

Southern Cross Flutes Online

Overture

My journey with the Native American Style Flute began in South Korea, 6000 miles away from my homeland of Aotearoa New Zealand, and 6000 miles away from the homeland of the Native American Flute on Turtle Island – the North American continent.

During those early months in South Korea, for reasons I still don’t know, a friend gifted me a CD to listen to. After an initial listen I loaded it onto my mp3 player and it never left my side. It was a haunting music that sent shivers up my spine, as I had never before heard the soft sound of wind traveling through wood. While my friends were listening to popular folk bands from Canada, I was alone listening to the spacious melodies created by the flute. We bonded, this music and I, as I walked the streets going from teaching job to teaching job, as I bounced along on the subway in crammed isolation, and as I traveled into the mountains during my free time. It was a step out of the busyness of my working world, and for the next four years that flute music continued to sooth and relax me.

I remember a poignant moment in Seoul, South Korea: the rush of cars within the towering concrete jungle competes with the bustle of food vendors selling hot food to warm the crowds coming home from work or school; I press through this swirling milieu and pass on to a woodland park and hill-side, hoping to escape from the urban intensity. I follow a slim forest path as it meanders towards the small Buddhist temple overlooking the city.  I plug in my mp3 player, sit back on the stone temple stoop, and slip into the tranquil smell of sweet incense and the soulful sounds of the flute.

A few more albums came my way during the next years on the road, Carlos R. Nakai, Mary Youngblood, and Lawrence Laughing filled my mp3 player. From South Korea, back to New Zealand, and on to Australia, every spare moment I had was spent listening to the sound of the Native American Style Flute. In Australia during the winter of 2007, while working at an inspiring outdoor education facility, a new fire kindled in me as I finally decided to purchase my own Native American Style Flute. The instrument was waiting for me when I returned to New Zealand, and I vividly recall the evening I took my first breath with the flute. Four years of listening ceaselessly to the music opened into a flood of expression that