Celebrate the Native American Flute: Learn to play the Native American flute! (EarthFlute) - Softcover

Claassen, Dick

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1483908194 ISBN 13: 9781483908199

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

The Native American flute tutorial, "Celebrate theNative American Flute", is a comprehensive system for learning to play this instrument, regardless of previous music knowledge or experience. If you have ever had the desire to play the Native American flute, this book is exactly what you are looking for.

Dick Claassen, master music teacher of various popular folk instruments, will teach you how to play the Native American flute from scratch, even if you have no music background. Dick introduces you to the Pentatonic scale, the most basic of all scales. He starts you with easy tunes hidden in this scale, and before you know it, you will sound like a true pro on this noblest of folk instruments.

The book features an easy to learn “tablature”, a tried and true method for reading notes that has been around for hundreds of years. You will learn traditional tunes of the Native American, meditative tunes, campfire tunes, sacred tunes, a special section on how to play the blues, as well as the booklet, “The Native American Flute: DECODED”.

Also included are recordings of some of the more challenging tunes in the book that illustrates tips and tricks that give you that Native American flute sound. The book also covers two major scales that give you even more power over the flute.

Whether you are a seasoned musician or someone who has always wanted to play a musical instrument but just didn't have the time to devote, "Celebrate the Native American Flute" will more than meet your needs. And you will have a tremendous amount of fun in the process.

NOTE: The included audio files can be exported to and played on any computer and any mobile device, including smart phones, MP3 players, and tablets.

Other how-to music books by DICK CLAASSEN:

Earth Flute - A comprehensive how-to book that includes tunes from many genres such as traditional, the blues, folk, songs for children, romantic tunes, meditative tunes, classical music, and tunes from many cultures. Also included are sample tunes from the book playable on any device.

Meditative Flute - A how-to book devoted to soul stirring tunes that when played will help take you into a meditative state. Also included are sample tunes from the book playable on any device.

Sacred Native American Flute - A comprehensive book that covers hymns, Christmas carols, the blues, and meditative loops. Also included are sample tunes from the book playable on any device.

Ukulele Finger Picking - A comprehensive how-to book that teaches you how to play melody, chords and bass, all at the same time, on the ukulele. Also included are sample tunes from the book playable on any device.

5-String Banjo Hot and Wild! - A comprehensive how-to book that teaches you how to play full solos and backup in the folk banjo style of Pete Seeger. Also included are sample tunes from the book playable on any device.

About this title

About the Author

Dick Claassen has written everything from a math textbook for Houghton-Mifflin, to high-end magazine articles about darkroom photography, (back when they still used film in cameras), to magazine articles about dulcimer building and miniature carnivals, to romance novels, to how-to books on how to play the Native American flute. With the support of his parents, Claassen began writing as a young child. Claassen's earliest memory of writing was his mother helping him write notes to breakfast cereal companies to ask them to send him their latest box-top toy. Of course, a quarter and a box-top was enclosed in the envelope, along with his carefully penned note his mother helped him write. Eventually Claassen found his way to serious writing as an adult, and in 1999, Claassen and his business partner, Kathryn Struck, began an online e-book publishing company called, "Awe-Struck E-Books". During the ten years the publishing company was in operation, Claassen took the time to write his first Native American flute how-to book: "Celebrate the Native American Flute". He has honed this book over the years, constantly updating it to what you now see in this book. Claassen has written other how-to books: "Meditative Flute", "Native American Flute DECODED" (included at the end of this book), "JumpStart Flute", "Earth Flute", "Christmas Carols for the Native American Flute", "Blues on the Native American Flute", and "Hymns for the Native American Flute". He has also written the book, "Meditation: A Personal Journey".

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1483908194
• ISBN 13: 9781483908199
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 148