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Back to School Essentials for Teaching Flute

Whether your students are advanced or just beginning, focusing on the basics not only helps tone, but lays the foundation for playing dynamics and especially for learning to play in tune. 

Free Pneumo Pro Practice Sheets

• The Pneumo Pro Practice Sheet helps students to focus and record their progress. When new flutists begin, they often huff and puff over and over without much focus. The practice sheets help students to concentrate on improving both air direction and breath control. 
• Most students will begin by spinning the yellow fan. (Or the blue fan which is too high to make any sound on the flute.) Students should gradually work to spin the lowest green fan but should progress one fan lower at a time. Encourage them to carefully go through each of the steps outlined on the Pneumo Pro Practice Sheet.

Teaching Flutists: Foundations for Success with Kathy Blocki

Free Zoom Session Saturday, August 26^th at 6:00 EST

45 minutes + 15 minutes Q/A

(A video recording will be available to everyone who has registered.)

Videos for Band Directors and Students

Flute Embouchure Video

Teaching Air Direction Video

Pneumo Pro Exercises for Intermediate and Advanced Flutists

These essential exercises can be done during a band rehearsal while you are working with other students. The exercises focus on tone, flexibility, dynamics or double tonguing.  Doing a few minutes of silent practice in each rehearsal will have a significant impact on your flute section. 

 Flute Positioning: The Flute Flex Pro

2023 Winner of the NAMM Great Tools for Schools Award

• The Flute Flex Pro is like having an assistant for each student to keep positioning correct.
• To achieve a resonant tone, embouchure flexibility is imperative. Make sure your students don't roll their flute in/out to change octaves or cover too much of the embouchure hole.
• The Flute Flex Pro is designed to help flutists create a full and expressive tone by ensuring correct positioning every time they play the flute. This mimics the feeling of a flute teacher holding the student's flute in place.

Blocki Flute Method—Our Guarantee

The Blocki Flute Method is designed to give flutist the best start possible.  If you switch to this method and do not notice a huge improvement in your flute section, we will refund the cost of the books! 

Flute Zoo Books

Flute Zoo Books are the new fun, and engaging way to learn to play the flute. Flute Zoo books 1-3 and Five-Note Fun = Blocki Flute book 1.  These colorful books were written with elementary age students in mind (5^th grade and younger.) Winner of the 2022 National Flute Assoc. Newly Published Music Award.

Save a Bundle with Bundles!

The Pneumo Pro Classroom Pack: Ten Pneumo Pros, training straws, video links.

Teacher's Package Special: The Award-Winning Blocki Flute books and tools all in one package!

The Pro Classroom Pack: 5 Pneumo Pros Wind Directors, 5 Flute Flex Pros, and Great Beginnings video 

Beginning Flute Essentials: Blocki Flute Method Book 1, Pneumo Pro/DVD with training straws, Accompaniment track download cards for CD1, Crocodile Blowing Toy

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