That’s what I’m trying to do right now. And to get some purpouse to the whole thing, and to get some nice input and feedback, I’ve decided to start a blog on the whole thing. I hope I’ll get something out of it, and maybe someone else will too, if only a laugh, or feeling good in knowing that there is someone worse than yourself out there.
Basically I’ll record a tune monday, take in feedback and work on it for a week, picking it apart, and at the end of the week record it again to measure my progress and learn something from it, before moving on to a new tune the next week.
I just started it up today and recorded The Eavesdropper, maybe someone will be interested in this.
Not sure I’d go about this in the same way, rather than try and bash out a tune a week I’d spend more time on improving embouchure, breath control and all the other elements of learning to play the flute. I may be wrong but it seems to me that you’re main concern is getting lots of tunes under your belt.
I’d say that that is one of the main parts of working on a tune in detail, I suppose I wasn’t clear on that, but I felt that that was an obvious part of it.
Just to clarify things, the first post was just a short recap of what I have in fact written on the blog itself. This is not a quest to learn one tune per week sloppily to bolster my repertoir by about 50 tunes in a year. I will only do a limited number of tunes, intending to come back to each tune three times during the year, and taking what I have learned from the first tune, and incorporate that into the second tune, while learning something from that tune, and bringing everything to the third tune and so on, and this is not just a question of what the fingers are doing, it is a question of every aspect of the flute.
As I said, I missed out on including the embouchure thing in the introduction, thinking that this was obvious enough to not having to write explicity. This will be the most important part of this project, first building strenght and stamina enough to be able to both work on the tone itself and with the flutini to correct my intonation.
Nor will these tunes be the only thing I work on, I will of course do excercises to work just on my tone, just on my intonation etc.
I hope this clarifies things and makes certain people re-evaluate their standing on this project.
I may be wrong but it seems to me that you’re main concern is getting lots of tunes under your belt.
to learn one tune per week really isn’t much, so i totally disegree with your statement …
an odd way to go about things, rather narcissistic don’t you think?
disegree with this statement also , because it think that jager must have a lot courage to listen his own clips with mistakes, put those clips public and also to ask honest jugement about those clips from c&f members …
jager aproach will maybe be slower, but final result will be certanly better …
through those tunes he will certanly improve his embochure, tempo, ornaments etc …
so,he would correct ( or he intend to correct..) his mistakes at the beggining, and it is much better than learn huge amounts of tunes, but with bad tehnique, tone and rhythm…
marin
Jager, you do what you want, how you want. You will get way too many opinions around here. I went to your blog but don’t have the time to read it or listen to your song today. I will.
OK. I listened and read your blog. As the weeks go on, I would be interested in reading about how you feel about how you’re learning/playing and how you feel about the instrument and the progress and frustrations and that kind of stuff. Make it more human.
to learn one tune per week really isn’t much, so i totally disegree with your statement …
Ok fair enough - when I was starting the flute my main concern was learning tunes to join in at sessions, it was only later when I realised what crap I was playing that I concentrated more on playing the flute properly.
I am looking forward to hearing the next recording.
Well ofcourse one keeps working on the tunes after its’ week (well, weeks, as it will be) is over. In the end, I suppose you never actually stop working on the tunes you play.
The thought behind the whole one tune per week-thing is mostly to give myself something new to wrap my head around as not to get bogged down in a single one, because I know myself, and I’m never quite happy no matter how much work I put into something. And also, variation to keep it FUN. I seem to recall some wise dude or dudette saying that once. Something about playing supposedly was something one should do for fun.
Yeah. One of the first tunes I learned was George White’s. Easy enough tune right. About a week ago I got Kev’s d flute album and it’s the first track. Sigh, I’m thinking of taking up knitting.
I’ve had a number of helpful comments on the blog, with good excercises that I will try to incorporate in my daily practice, all of them being tone- and intonation related. I’ve also sat down with flutini and analyzed the original recording, as well as three subsequent ones over these past days. What I can say for certain is that I’m all over the place, but I’ve managed to quite consistantly bring down my D to at least no more than 15 cents sharp, to be compared with the 31 (!!!) cents sharp in the first recording.
Feels real good to have this much to work on and think about in the future.
an odd way to go about things, rather narcissistic don’t you think? 
