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Now that you have learned how to make six different sounds (notes) on your flute it is time to start using these notes to make music. Our body, mind and soul love new experiences. The desire and capacity for learning new things is just amazing. And, it’s fun too. We will begin by building on what you have learned in lesson one.
Breathing correctly

Before you start playing your flute, let’s make sure you are using your breath properly. Stand up and put your right hand over your solar plexus or stomach area. Now take a breath in and let it go out through the mouth. You should feel your solar plexus rise as you breath in and fall back down as you breath out. To do this you do not need to take a big, deep breath. Just be sensitive to the rise and fall as you breath in and out. Remember, it’s not your chest that rises and falls; it’s the stomach area. When you feel this rise and fall you know that you have a foundation upon which all the rest of your playing can be built.

Blow into your Native American flute and sound the fundamental note. Pause and breathe in and blow again after raising the ring finger of the right hand to sound a second note. Keeping the ring finger up take and breath and raise the middle finger off of it’s hole and blow into your flute again to sound the third note. Do the same with the index finger. Skip the ring finger of the left hand and raise the middle finger of the left hand and blow into the flute to sound the last note on the pentatonic scale. Pause and raise the index finger of the left hand and blow to sound the second octave fundamental or sixth note.

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from How to Play the Native American Style Flute, released April 7, 2008

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Bill Leyden is a prolific composer of ambient music and an accomplished modern-day interpreter of the Native American-style flute.

His music has become a fast favorite with massage therapists, healers and practitioners of meditation and Yoga.

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