New release, a melody companion to the Roots Jam drum rhythm series.

Learn how to improvise on flute or pennywhistle, for solo or group jams.

Have you ever wanted to improvise with your pennywhistle or bamboo flute and didn’t know where to start?

What are some of the more popular Western scales? How do they compare with the flavor of music from Japan, India, or the Middle East?

Is there a handy reference chart for transposing from one key to another?

Which notes are best to play when switching modes in jazz?

Flutes Jam helps you over the hurdles to free your playing while sounding good.

Here are some pointers from the book:

Nowick’s Nuggets

• Find a lonely beach to practice.
• Rent studio space if necessary.
• Play as often as you can. Your brain will keep learning in between, in the background, or getting new insights and inspirations.
• “Make it beautiful.”
• Feel free to risk mistakes.
• “There are no mistakes”—play with that.
• private: Dance with the shadow.
• public: Introduce the shadow to beauty.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Eugene Neptune for stellar flutes and other instrumentation, organization, sound engineering, and videography for the Strange Moon recordings in the Audio/Video section, as well as feedback on this manuscript. Thanks also for helpful comments by Eric Onasick and flautist Suryaneel Khan (Étienne Lauth).

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Flutes Jam Haiku

Keep asking one thing:
what is the core vibration
inside all that is?

Keep playing that note
riding in that frequency…
all else will follow.