I've now had a Pandora account for over 20 years! What I love about Pandora is that you can put in a song you like, and then it makes an educated guess as to which music you'll like and it plays those songs. When you 👍or👎a track it gets even better at guessing! One of my favorite stations is Om Namo Bhagavate Radio. Sometimes these radical flute solos come on and I just love it! But usually I am so in the flow when I'm listening that I never think, "who's playing that flute? I want to listen to this again!" Tonight I noticed this song with some really awesome flute and paused to take note for you!! So awesome that I made a new category of posts here: 🔊Listening List🎼! This is for sharing recordings of your favorite flutists... Help me fill it with videos of your favorite performances & performers! Don't forget to tell us why you love it. ☺️ I'm pretty sure this is Manose Singh playing flute on this recording! What I love about it: 🪈 The flute is really subtle in the beginning... low & slow. I love this texture. 🪈 The flute is the perfect compliment to the voices. I feel like the voice is there representing the spirit of the wind, like some mythical creature like a faerie, or an earthly flying creature like a dragonfly or butterfly. 🪈 I love how "free" the flute feels in the solo time & garnish time. Free-flowing, unencumbered... I envy this level of freedom and try to emulate it in my own playing! 😮 I'm jealous of those pitch bends! 🔷 Have you ever tried playing a bansuri flute? 🔷 What's a specific example of something you like about this recording?

Piccolo (one octave higher than concert flute) Concert Flute (standard) Alto Flute (one fourth lower than concert flute) Bass Flute (one octave lower than concert flute) Anybody played Contrabass Flute??

When you're playing along with this track, make sure to watch out for the G# in the E-major chord! This song is in a-minor which usually has no sharps or flats, but sometimes they add G# to make the Fifth chord sound Major instead of minor! I started by playing the notes on the screen. Then I played the notes a 3rd above them with a slightly new rhythm. Then I played the notes a 5th above them with some occasional scale segments. Then I played more or less the rhythm of the melody but with different notes. "Right rhythm, wrong notes." Then I explored more of the same, but mixed up played the rhythm of the melody and making up a complimentary rhythm. I explored mixed in more blue notes instead of just the rhythm notes. I dug the run at 1:33 but wish it had cleaner timing. It was fun to explore exaggerated big articulation at the end! Will you try some of these techniques?