Meditative Musical Pathways Through Learning Native American Flute And Recorder - by Philip Gay

COURSE

Meditative Musical Pathways Through Learning Native American Flute And Recorder

With Philip Gay

This course provides a roadmap with guided lessons for playing the Native American-style flute and the Recorder. No musical background is necessary; students will need to have access to a musical instrument in order to experience the full benefits of the course. Students will be exposed to a variety of different styles of flutes, and will learn how to play the minor pentatonic scale on both the Native American Flute and the Recorder. Techniques for self-expression and improvisation will be introduced, along with a tutorial on how to create backing tracks for enhancing practice and performance. This course will touch on how music and spirit can intersect to create a transformative state of consciousness with the potential to relieve stress and promote a greater sense of calm and well-being. Through listening to a variety of instruments and insights from indigenous artists and storytellers, students will be encouraged to express their own unique voice through music.

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Meet your Teacher

Philip Gay
Boston, MA, USA

Philip Gay is a self-taught musician with a passion for a variety of musical instruments. He discovered the Native American Flute while visiting the Southwest, and found its innate and haunting voice to be a calming window into a mindful meditation practice. It is a very foundational instrument to learn and play, but the sound of the flute has the potential to create a transformative state of mind. Learning to play the Recorder becomes a very affordable entry point into creating similar sounds, and teachers can apply the lessons from this resource to their own classrooms where students have access to Recorders. Both instruments offer a unique pathway into musical expression. Philip's work as a video and documentary producer in Public Television has enabled him to interact with a variety of musicians, artists, and communities across the country. This course includes samples of that work with a few shared stories that touch on worldview, indigenous identity, and self-expression. Philip also has a background as a video producer for online learning projects in higher education, and the design of this course takes into account that experience.

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7 min / day

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Lesson 1

A Sense Of Being: Indigenous Perspectives, Chants, And Beliefs

The central theme for this lesson is to help you think about your place in the world, where we come from, and how music can be a link to something greater than ourselves. The goal of this lesson is to show how indigenous beliefs, and connecting with a higher power, are experienced and expressed in different Native cultures. The chants and melodies provide pathway to a more connected sense of place and being. Hopefully, these voices will resonate with our own sense of purpose and being, and provided a sense of how music can begin to be a transformative pathway for you as you explore and express your own identity and connection to the world through music.

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Lesson 2

Demystifying Sounds Of The Native American Flute And The Recorder

This lesson introduces the sounds of a variety of different types of Native American Style Flutes, each with a unique key, maker, and design. Demonstrations of different tones are featured, along with a comparison to the sound of the recorder. The Recorder has the ability to produce a similar sound to the Native American flute, and is a very affordable and available option for creating meditative music. In order to progress in the course, it will be necessary to have access to one of these types of instruments.

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Lesson 3

Introduction To The Minor Pentatonic Scale: Playing Notes On Native American Style Flute And Recorder

This lesson introduces students to the basics of holding and fingering the Native American Style Flute and the Recorder, and how both can play a basic five note minor pentatonic scale. This demonstration uses a right handed orientation. The minor pentatonic scale uses the following notes from the major scale, 1, flat3, 4, 5, flat7. This lesson demonstrates the similarities and differences for fingering between the Native American Flute and the Recorder when playing the minor pentatonic scale. This lesson also illustrates the fundamentals for holding both instruments.

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Lesson 4

An Introduction To Improvisation, Embellishment, And Vibrato

This lesson introduces techniques that allow you to add your own unique style and voice to playing the Native American Flute and the Recorder. The concept of embellishment is introduced to illustrate how specific fingering techniques can achieve a variation of energy and vibrancy. This lesson also demonstrates how to create the sound of vibrato through covering all of the holes and adjusting the tone through breath control. By adding waves of breath that trail off, and then gain intensity, the fundamentals of vibrato can be achieved. These techniques allow for the ability to play more self-expressive and meditative musical ideas.

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Lesson 5

Create Your Own Backing Tracks Using Garage Band

This lesson guides you through a step by step tutorial on using the Apple application, "Garage Band", so that you can create background musical tracks that can be used for accompaniment. You play the flute and recorder along with these tracks for practice and performance. Two tracks are created in this lesson. One track involves playing just one note, and the other uses the computer keyboard to play two basic three note chords, D minor and C major. This lesson also shows how to use Garage Band's built in Looper, so that short musical phrases can be repeated. This lesson also includes a short review of the minor pentatonic scale. This lesson does not require any previous musical training or any additional musical instruments.

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