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Summary: Learn blues music secrets about playing solos on the flute in the key of E flat from a professional flutist in this free music lesson video about musical instruments and music theory.
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Kiely Griffin Kiely Griffin is a third-year music management and jazz flute student at the Hartt School of Music in West Hartford, CT. She has previously served as vice pre... read more
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Questions & AnswersOne of the secrets to soloing is to always keep in mind a story with what you're playing. It is good to have, it is good to know where you're going with the solo and to plan out how long you're going to take. This will help develop your sound, musical contour, and solo. If you start out make sure tell how many choruses you are going to take. In all my solos I have been just taking one chorus. Make sure that you know how many choruses or forms of the blues head, forms or how many blues forms that you should take when you're doing your solo. It is also good to think about your story and to have your ideas connected to something. One good tip to do is to have a musical idea that you're going to play. Plan it and try to make your story connect to that so you can play that idea. For example in the ninth measure when it goes into the last set of four bars I'm going to this idea in my solo. It is good to play this idea in the solo. It will be a good idea to play this idea in the solo to help connect your phrases. I will now play another solo in E flat using that in the ninth measure. So, let's take a listen and try to remember about contours, phrases, ending, and story. Through my solo I had tried to make a story and worked and put a similar idea to the one I thought of at the ninth measure. So, that way I had something to work towards. Try to keep these things in mind when you're developing a solo over the B flat, E flat blues.
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