Flute Music | Scales | Embellishments | Lessons

Playing your Native American Style Flute | There are no wrong notes! All notes harmonize melodically. Reading music is not needed.

Go HERE for handy playing tips, flute care & troubleshooting for Native American style flutes.

Music Learn to play songs using a unique way of ‘reading music.’ Pictures of what notes to cover and uncover are used instead of reading traditional music. This makes learning very easy to play. Here is the basic scale.

Fundamentals
- Scales and Arpeggios. Get started on the minor pentatonic and major scales. Enjoy advancing to arpeggios, the blues scale, mixolydian and mode 4 pentatonic scales. All on 1-page! Get a chart of musical terms and markings to read timing, embellishments, etc.
- Templates Julie devised in 2020 to write out your own music. Simply use the staff paper lines to make 6 vertical circles for each finger hole. Next, pencil in the circles to show which holes to cover. Lyrics go on the dotted lines in between. The half page format has room below for notes and instructions. Use the full page format for longer songs. Happy creating!
- Chakra Tone Chart See the yoga (Vedic) and Tibetan notes and tones used for balancing chakras by either increasing or decreasing their energy with sound. Yoga (Vedic) notes and tones are based on the diatonic scale. Tibetan tones and notes are based upon the perfect 5th. Try both to see what is best for you. Learn more about chakras here.
- Easy Hand Warm-ups Here’s a great 5-minute series of hand movements & mudras to help your fingers, wrists & hands with easy-to-remember names for each one. Great for musicians & anyone with stiff, painful fingers, hands or wrists. Learn the Hakini Mudra, Beak, Bug, Claw, Paw, Seed, Web, Wings, Eagle & Hridaya. Thank you Christine Stevens at Upbeat Drum Circles for interviewing me.

Songs

Embellishments
- Bird and animal sounds

Lessons | Learn to play music quickly and confidently with lessons. Here are some of our favorite teachers. Most teach online and in-person. Look for them on YouTube and get their newsletter.

Christine Stevens. Take her free course on 3 tips for playing Native Flute for Sound Healing, at Upbeat Drum Circles on YouTube and on the Shift Network.
Clint Goss Music Facilitation and World Flutes. He offers a free 800 page Flutopedia Manual that is amazing.
Julie Lusk offers online and in-person lessons to learn to play the flute as well as how to play the reverie harp, tongue drum, thumb piano, and other similar instruments. Music lesson details and registration or Contact Julie here.
Jonny Lipford Music
Miami Valley Flute Circle of Ohio
Stellar Flutes provide flutes, video lessons, and kits to make your own flute.