Flute playing techniques and methods to practice - This session, we'll take a look at the types of ornamentation and gamaks in flute playing both from an Indian classical and western music point of view.To give your playing and melodies more life, color and motion, we’ll cover a few aspects to like :

• Embellishments like gamaks, meend, grace notes, oscillations
• Rhythmic ornamentation
• Volume control & dynamics

This is open to all levels of flute players, all instrumentalists and vocalists as well. Do send in your questions before the sessions. I'd love to cover them during the class and/or at the interactive Q&A section at the end of the sessions. See you soon!

Flute playing techniques & practice methods - We’ll be looking at some methods to decode, transcribe and play your favorite tunes on the flute. These methods and exercises are powerful for ear-training and adding technique and vocabulary to your playing. I’ll take a few tunes and decode them in the session so we can go over things like :

• Breaking down a tune into its rhythmic and melodic components
• Different ways to write down notations
• Ear-training exercises to help you decode songs better
• Applying these to further enhance your playing

This is open to all levels of flute players, all instrumentalists and vocalists as well. Do send in your questions before the sessions. I'd love to cover them during the class and/or at the interactive Q&A section at the end of the sessions. See you soon!

Flute playing techniques & practice methods - For Part 3 of this three part masterclass, we'll bring concepts together to merge together into tools for improvisation. We’ll be looking at different ways to approach this. Whether you want to compose, or you want to play along with your favorite songs, or you want to add some color, we’ll cover a few approaches :

• Get creative with melodic ideas
• Get creative with rhythmic ideas
• The raga approach
• Improvisation Tools - Call & response, free form, repetition, convey emotions

This is open to all levels of flute players, all instrumentalists and vocalists as well. Do send in your questions before the sessions. I'd love to cover them during the class and/or at the interactive Q&A section at the end of the sessions. See you soon!