Expert Advice

Flutey, It’s Cold Outside! Cold Weather Tips for Flutes and Piccolos

Cold winter weather can be harmful to our instruments, especially our wooden piccolos! Rachel Geier gives her best advice for how to care for your instruments in these cold temperatures.

Practice Blueprints - Faure Fantasie

Follow these practice blueprints to learn Faure's Fantasie, a standard in our French flute reprtoire.

How To Get the Most Out Of a Masterclass

Masterclasses provide so many opportunities for learning - about yourself, about your playing, about the flute, about the clinician. Learn how to get the most out of this experience to become a bet...

Dare to Be Visible - Navigating the Online Flute Community

In this day and age, promoting yourself online can feel difficult and confusing. Demystify this experience with expert advice from Rachel Taylor Geier.

Just Breathe - Breathing Exercises to Combat Performance Anxiety

My little secret is that I, like many flutists out there, suffer from crippling performance anxiety. My stomach turns in knots before a performance, sweat drips from my brow (even in the dead of wi...

Sound Rainbow - Creating a Tone Color Plan

Do you think of color when you play your flute? Do you associate colors with a certain emotion or tone quality? Building on ideas introduced by flute pedagogue Trevor Wye, Rachel Geier leads you in...

Piccolo Powers - Piccolo Playing Tips

Small yet mighty, one of the loudest instruments in the orchestra is also the most compact. The piccolo offers a powerful sound that can rival any booming brass instrument. Cultivating and controll...

Scale Games

Learn your scales and have fun with these scale games! Learn how to play these games with instructions provided by Rachel Geier.

Practice Blueprints - Chaminade Concertino, Op. 107

The Chaminade Concertino is a flute fan favorite and, for many of us, one of our first forays into the virtuosic world of the French Flute School. Commissioned by the Paris Conservatoire in 1902, t...

Recital Roadmap - Tips for Recital Preparation

Preparing for a recital? Follow this roadmap to success to feel polished and confident by the date of your performance.