play the flute again

BP has completely weakened my mouth, and therefore, my ambesure. But I hope practice will get things back to normal. And I enjoy making music.

I’ve just realised how annoying my lip piercing is going to be.
Plus, I can’t even remember where my flute is… I need to dig that out and give it a go.

I played the flute from age 9 to age 16 or so, and then on and off since then. I still have my flute, and can still make a nice sound on it, but I hardly ever practice. i want to get back into regular practice, and I would really like to play with some sort of ensemble again.

It took me 2 months to complete this since I needed a fair bit of practice before my sister’s concert. I did play there, and it went very well. The other flutist played a couple pieces that I easily could have done, and I should have told G I’d do them from the start. Oh, well. I’d like to keep playing – I’ll just have to torture Mom and the cat with my high notes. Have to dig up the music soon!

I should never have given this up.
Luckily I still have the flute, but as I stopped play about 10 years ago, all the music books have bitten the dust already. Actually that’s probably a good thing, I tended to repeatedly play the pieces I liked and knew blindfolded back then, so it’s probably best I find some new ones to give me a kick start.

My sister has asked me to play along with her high school choir at their holiday concert on December 4. Whew – that’s not far away! Time to get going on this, since I told her I’d be happy to play for them – it was their suggestion, which I thought was sweet.

Like a total MORON, I packed up the flute music and sent it to storage. And I have no IDEA where in there it is. So I’ve added the goal of going there and digging it out. Sigh. MAD at myself.

I knew I held on to my flute for a reason. So now it is in the shop getting pampered. Cleaned, groomed, pads rehydrated and soon will be back in my hands to relearn.

I printed off a bunch of 3rd grade (lol) lessons to work on it on my own. But I can still get the notes out so that is great!

I can do this.

Dug out all my old music and boy, do I have a PILE of it for flute. Should be fun to go through and remember all those old tunes.

i have completed two steps toward this goal:

1. located flute i’ve had since high school
2. found local music teacher

next steps:
get flute tuned, etc…
call music teacher