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    Enchanted Beginnings: The QuickStart Guide for the Native American Style Flute
    Enchanted Beginnings: The QuickStart Guide for the Native American Style Flute
    Enchanted Beginnings: The QuickStart Guide for the Native American Style Flute
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    Enchanted Beginnings: The QuickStart Guide for the Native American Style Flute

    By Todd Chaplin

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    Enchanted Beginnings is the essential quickstart ebook for the Native American Style Flute, Drone Flute, and Mayan Temple Flute. Learn the skills required to get you started on your flute journey – how to setup the flute, introductory techniques and playing practices.

    Beautifully produced, with easy to follow instruction and a multitude of full colour photos, diagrams, and specially created flute playing notation and sheet music included, our ebook also contains links to the Southern Cross Flutes online learning suite, where you can watch and listen to the videos that support and extend learning at no extra cost!

    Southern Cross Flutes also publishes the comprehensive Native American Style Flute guidebook, 'Enchanted Journeys' containing in-depth playing information, exercises, music, bonus instructional DVD and links to online learning media for the NASF, Drone and Mayan Temple Flutes – all in one package that will advance your playing for years to come (available in print and ebook).
    LanguageEnglish
    PublishereBookPartnership
    Release dateApr 16, 2015
    ISBN9780473321789
    Enchanted Beginnings: The QuickStart Guide for the Native American Style Flute

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      Enchanted Beginnings - Todd Chaplin

      Introduction

      The Native American Style Flutes that I craft are played by diverse people, for many purposes. Sometimes we play for heartfelt expression, sometimes we play for the deep resonating tones that soften the mind and bring peace, and sometimes we play for the healing of self and others. Southern Cross Flutes invites you to journey with us on these interweaving paths.

      As a New Zealander, I had never met another flute player until I went to Australia in 2010. Matt Shooting Star, my first flute friend, was also my first flute teacher. It wasn’t until I left for the USA in April 2010 that I entered into a fabulously vibrant and diverse NASF community. How lucky and excited I felt! I met my NASF heroine, Mary Youngblood; I camped in the desert; and for weeks I played music with new friends, climbing in the mountains where wild bears listened and the canyons echoed to our music. It was a dream, and I feel such a deep sense of happiness and thanks for the NASF world and its growth here in Aotearoa/New Zealand. We are part of a new wave of musicians exploring an old instrument that captivates, fascinates and uplifts

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