The Flute's Magical Music

In my opinion, this book would not be a successful tool for a beginning flutist. The first half of the book is completely read-only, whereas Takahashi has assumed that by reading such the student will understand and formulate his/her own way of playing. For a student new to music, text-only is very difficult to comprehend, especially when there are words that both the child as well as the parent may not know. This is coupled by the fact that the original book was written in Japanese, so the translati

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He only mentions that forcing a child to “practice, practice, practice” makes it worse. This includes tone, phrasing, and sensitivity. The second portion of Takahashi’s book is the music section. This is apparently the purpose of the book, more explained later. It should be handled on a case-by-case basis. This is mainly because of cultural differences between the orient and the Americas, but weaknesses nonetheless. I come to this conclusion due to the language and brevity of each explanation.

Exercises

The last section of the book contains the actual music he has inserted to supplement his ideas. Children learn to speak via listening, and from memory recite things that they begin to understand, so eventually show their true potential long before learning to read what they are comprehending and saying. The child observing sees how well (or not so well) his sibling is doing, and either becomes interested in helping his sibling or catching up to his/her level. At a very young age, listening would be the way to go, but as the pupil gets to older starting ages, music on a page can be used as well.

The very first couple of exercises are simple in nature, covering basic quarter note/eighth note rhythms and a very small range of the flute. Then it only gets worse, within three pages of his volume one book, technique needs to be reaching a level that I still see college students struggle with.

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Approximate Pages = 9 (250 words per page double spaced)

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