piano. The thing I think that was most of interest to me is that through my own breath, and by having my breath go into the flute, I could make sounds of my own. And for me, it was like coloring. And it became more like coloring. You color the sound, and you have to find your own way of how to do that. And again, I think for me, it was the fact that the flute became my best friend. Well there's a poem in the book. I don't have it off hand, but you talk about shaping the air. Shaping the sound. Shaping the sound. And you can shape the sound by how much energy you put into your blowing across the embouchure. The embouchure is means the place where you make the sound. So for me, that was just what I've always tried to do is to make sounds that carry meaning. How much of your training came from being taught, and how much of it was improvisational, just playing around with the instrument on your own? Both, I would say. I played around on the instrument, and I had a rigorous training with a (7/37)
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