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Flute Foundations

The Irish Flute: Ornamentation, Tone, Intonation and Breath

FLUTE FOUNDATIONS - BUILDING YOUR SKILLS

Continue your learning journey with the flute with this powerful Foundations course for those who already know how to play and/or have completed the Flute Basics course.

By the end of this course, you will have a repertoire of thirteen Irish tunes that sit very well on the flute, and a firm foundation in ornamentation, tone, intonation and breath. The course has 13 lessons, broken into 3 to 4 tutorials each, where tunes are taught phrase by phrase.

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  • 18 lessons teaching how to play 13 very popular Irish tunes
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Kirsten Allstaff
Kirsten Allstaff is one of the founders and directors of The Online Academy of Irish Music. She is an acclaimed flute and tin-whistle player and has played music throughout Ireland, Europe, North America and Asia with various Irish dance shows and groups: Gaelforce Dance, Celtic Legends, Rhythm of the Dance, The Fiddlecase and Clare based band Los Paddys De Los Pampas.In 2014, Kirsten released her solo album 'Gallowglass'. With master instrumentalists John Joe Kelly on Bodhrán and Eoin O'Neill on Bouzouki amongst many others. This album is a blend of traditional tunes from her two homelands of Ireland and Scotland.Originally…
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Course Structure

This course is aimed at those who already know how to play the flute but who want to improve on the basic foundations of their playing. These foundations include ornamentation, tone, intonation and breath. Tunes taught are picked from the repertoire of common session tunes enabling you to go to a local session and join in with confidence knowing that you will have tunes in common with other musicians. Each lesson will focus on a specific element of flute playing (see list below) and appropriate exercises will be given. The specific technique taught each week will then be applied to the week’s tune.

The traditional Irish tunes and corresponding techniques taught are:

  • The Fisherman’s Slip Jig (Ornamentation – The Cut)
  • Rolling In The Ryegrass (Ornamentation – The Cut)
  • Pigtown (Exercises for Tone and Breathing)
  • Connacht Man’s Rambles (Ornamentation: The Tap)
  • The Idle Road (Ornamentation: Taps, C♮. Tone: Strengthening of the low D)
  • Fig For A Kiss (Exercises to strengthen Tone and Embouchure)
  • The Coach Trip To Sligo (Ornamentation: Roll on a G)
  • The Mourne Mountains (How to Warm Up Before Playing)
  • The Rolling Wave (Ornamentation: The Roll)
  • The Pride Of Petravore (Ornamentation: Slides)
  • Off To California (Melodic Variation)
  • The Swallow’s Tail (Melodic Variation)
  • The Lass Of Ballintra (Ornamentation: The Roll on G and A)
Sample Sheet Music
Download Download The Fisherman’s Slip Jig ABC Sheet Music. Download Download The Fisherman’s Slip Jig Standard Notation Sheet Music.
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Flute Foundations Lessons

1
Basic
The Fisherman’s Slip Jig

Ornamentation: The Cut

Melody
D Major
Slip Jig
2
Basic
Rolling in the Ryegrass

Ornamentation: The Cut

Melody
D Major
Reel
3
Basic
Pigtown

In this lesson Kirsten will teach the reel, ‘Pig Town’. She will demonstrate an valuable exerci…

Melody
G Major
Reel
4
Basic
Connacht Man’s Rambles

The jig, ‘The Connaught Man’s Rambles’ is featured in this lesson. The ornament ‘th…

Melody
D Major
Jig
5
Basic
The Idle Road

Ornamentation: Taps, Cuts. Tone: Strengthening of the low D

Melody
G Major
Jig
6
Basic
Fig for A Kiss

Exercises to strengthen Tone and Embouchure

Melody
E Minor
Slip Jig
7
Basic
The Coach Trip To Sligo

This lesson will teach the jig, ‘Coach Trip to Sligo’. The roll on the note of G will be introd…

Melody
G Major
Jig
8
Basic
The Mourne Mountains

How to Warm Up Before Playing

Melody
G Major
Reel
9
Basic
The Rolling Wave

Ornamentation: The Roll

Melody
D Mixolydian
Jig
10
Basic
The Pride of Petravore

Ornamentation: Slides

Melody
E Minor
Hornpipe
11
Basic
Off to California

Melodic Variation

Melody
G Major
Hornpipe
12
Basic
The Swallow’s Tail

Kirsten’s study of variation continues in this lesson

Melody
A Minor
Reel
13
Basic
The Lass of Ballintra

Ornamentation: The Roll on G and A

Melody
G Major
Reel
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