What Can You Learn from the Other Musical Instruments?

I teach both flute and piano. When I’m in piano world and tell people that I also play flute, pianists remark on how well flutists know their ornamentation. When I’m in flute world and tell people that I also play piano, the other flutists remark on how pianists tend to find patterns and think in chords.

It’s good to know who to talk to when you get stumped on something. Certain instruments are better at teaching certain things better than others for 3 reasons:

1.) The design of their instruments

2.) The most common music written for their instrument

3.) The types of people that certain instruments attract

Here’s a list of what I’ve observed. I’ll try to go in concert order, but there will be some skipped instruments because either I haven’t had enough access to them or because I haven’t had a recommendation.

Singers – Tone and Breathing.

Flutes – Ornamentation

Oboes – Anything about reeds

Clarinets – Organization (of anything)

Saxophones – Playing with attitude

Trumpets – Confidence (only ask the nice ones)

French Horns – Keeping off-beats from going onto the on-beats

Trombones – Articulation

Percussion – Rhythm

Pianos – Hearing the entire song, not just the melody. Thinking in chords and patterns.

What have you heard about the strengths of other instruments?

Author: Tarah

I started playing flute in 1988 and piano in 1991. In 1996, my high school chose me to teach flute and piano to a partner grade school. I was chosen for a similar program in college. Tarah Schoell has always loved sharing her music and guiding others to learn new things. Because of this, she went to college to be a music teacher and has a B.S. in Elementary Education with a Concentrate in Music from Martin Luther College in New Ulm, MN. Tarah uses her music education degree to teach from her flute and piano studio, play in various professional and community ensembles, and run a blog on practice techniques at thequarternotes.com. She is active in the Omaha Music Teacher’s Association because she likes to support her fellow music teachers and use the monthly continuing education opportunities.

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