My Fluting Skills

I’ve been practicing my flute a lot lately. More than I practice my piano. Sad, I know. But I’ve been inspired by the people in the high school band who play so well. They can play sixteenth notes in an allegro tempo easily, even if they don’t know what a tenuto is.

And the high school band also has a chamber music group for the best people in the regular Wind Ensemble. I’d try out if I could actually play any of it. I’ve tried the music.

It’s required that we go to band at lunch to practice at least once a week or so, and the other day, the small practice room was being worked on or something, so me and Mr. First-Chair-and-also-in-the-chamber-music-group shared the room with the other instruments who had come to practice. And most of the people there were in the chamber-music-group, and since we all shared the practice room, we played the chamber music. I could play it slowly. Maybe as fast as some eighth notes on a moderato speed, but the Chamber Winds people played it with a blur of fingers. Ms. Other-First-Chair-flute came in too to play with finger blurs, and a girl I know who is two years above me and is the only person who so far signed up for the audition of the vacant flute place of the Chamber Winds came too and played.

I feel inferior. But I really want to audition for the chamber music group. I’m not good enough. That’s why I’ve been practicing so much.

…Can anyone recommend a book of etudes, or something?