Playing Native American Flute - With Other Musicians

..Play Your Native American Flute ...................................

You can accompany musicians from around the globe.

Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Croatia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece		India, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Turkey, U.S.A, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

	It's Fun. It's Easy. *Let us teach you how.*

Lisa and Jerry Fretwell
of Fretwell Flutes

It's been a busy year. We have a new music CD that we are releasing this year as well as working on the new book series. We hope to have the new book series entitled: " Learn To Play Along With Other Musicians", available for purchase soon.
Peace Be With You,

Lisa Fretwell
08-11-2010

You Can Play Along

If you've never experienced the awe that fills you when you play music with other people, you need to. It's proof positive that we are all connected.

The songs in the music player on this page, are a diverse collection of very talented musicians from around the globe. They are a lot of fun to accompany. The songs are instrumentals. These are original pieces of work written and performed by the artists themselves.

Discover how your Native American Flute is a diverse instrument. It blends well with instruments from all around the world. You will play along with these different instruments such as: guitars, drums, pianos, keyboards, strings, synthesizers etc.. All of the songs are completed pieces of work that are a joy to listen to. They also lend themselves to easy flute accompaniment.

Choosing A Song

1. Read through the information on this page as you scroll down.

2. Located in the World Music Song Chart near the bottom of this page, find the songs that match the key of your flute. Use the fingering pattern that we suggest.

3. Click on the title of the song in
the music player, near the bottom of this page and start enjoying playing along with these wonderful musicians.

Know Your Flute

You need to know what key your flute is tuned to. It's the note you are playing when all the holes are covered on your flute. It is called the root note. Knowing what key your flute is tuned to, will help you choose which songs your flute will play easily with.

If your flute was made by us, this note is burned onto the back along with our signature,date, and flute number.

You can listen to the single notes played on flutes below to determine the key of your flute. Play the note, play your flute and you can hear when you have a match.

* NOTE - Breathing Pressure Effects Pitch

Breathing Pressure
The pressure that you are using to blow into the flute comes from using your diaphragm to control it. Don't confuse pressure, with amount of air. It's not the amount of the air, it's the pressure behind it.

A. Push Harder = the pitch will rise ( between 1/4 to 1/8 of a step )
Hear an example - Click Here
The 1st flute is played on pitch. The 2nd flute starts out FLAT, but as I add more pressure the pitch rises. Then, the two flutes sound like "one" flute.

B. Push Softer = the pitch will fall ( between 1/4 to 1/8 of a step)
Hear an example - Click Here
The 1st flute is played on pitch. The 2nd flute starts out SHARP, but as I decrease the air pressure the pitch lowers. Then, the two flutes sound like "one" flute.

Click Here to listen to how much you can raise and lower one single note on your flute by changing the pressure that you are using.

What Key Is Your Flute Tuned To?

1. Click on a blue letter below to hear that key of flute played.
2. Cover all the holes on your flute and blow into your flute. When your flute sounds the same as what you are hearing being played by us, that is the key of your flute.

Bass Flutes

Large Flutes

Medium Flutes

Small Flutes

What Notes To Play On Your Flute
You can use the Minor Pentatonic Scale illustrated below, to play along with some of the songs in the music player. There are fingering pattern variations that you can play, too.

A group of notes, played together is called a Phrase. You can change how the song feels and sounds just by Starting and Stopping in a different place. The Start/Stop place, I call the Pivot Note.

Below are examples of how changing the Pivot Note can change the feel of the song. Listen to the differences. Play them on your flute.

Minor Pentatonic Scale

Fingering Pattern ~ Original
Listen Click Here

5 Hole Flute
Native American Flute - Fingering Chart

6 Hole Flute
Native American Flute - Fingering Chart

Sometimes you will want to play the scale by starting in a different position. The note that you start on, does make a difference in how the song you are playing sounds. You can start and stop on any note on your flute. Try playing the fingering pattern variations shown below.

Minor Pentatonic Scale

Fingering Pattern ~ Variation One
Listen Click Here

5 Hole Flute Native American Flute - Fingering Chart

6 Hole Flute Native American Flute - Fingering Chart

Fingering Pattern ~ Variation Two
Listen Click Here

5 Hole Flute
Native American Flute - Fingering Chart

6 Hole Flute
Native American Flute - Fingering Chart

Some of the songs in the music player on this page require that you know how to play different scales on your flute. Our book, "Getting To Know Your Native American Flute", has easy to read fingering charts for the different fingering patterns/scales that you can play on your flute.

Do you want to learn more about your Native American Flute?

Buy This Book
Click Here - $19.95

"Getting To Know Your Native American Flute"

For those of you who already have our book,
we have listed the page number next to the songs in World Music Song Chart shown below. The pages in the book will show you exactly what fingering pattern to use to play along.

Fingering Patterns include: .Blues Scale, Diatonic Scale, Dorian Scale, Major Scale, Natural Minor Scale, Pentatonic Major Scale, Pentatonic Minor Scale, Phyrygian Scale, Romanian Minor Scale, Spanish Gypsy Scale,
Chromatic Scale

The Music Player

Accompany Talented Musicians
With Your Flute

Click on a song title below.

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Minor Pentatonic Scale

Variation One

5 Hole Flute Native American Flute - Fingering Chart

6 Hole Flute

Minor Pentatonic Scale

Variation Two

5 Hole Flute
Native American Flute - Fingering Chart

6 Hole Flute

What do the columns in the chart below mean?

1.	The column entitled: Use Your Flute In The Key Of It is the key of your flute's root note ( All holes covered ). You can play your flute along with songs written in many different keys. The fingering pattern that you will play is what changes from key to key.

2.	The column entitled: The Notes To Play On Your Flute A. The Minor Pentatonic Scale ~ Variation One or Variation Three B. The numbers in this column are the page numbers in our book ("Getting To Know Your Native American Flute"). If you have a copy of our book turn to that page and use the fingering pattern on that page. If you want to order a copy of the book - Click Here. C. New Book - The unique Fingering Pattern Charts for these songs will be included in the new book/cd series that we will have completed and release in 2010. Email us at: Jerry@FretwellFlutes.com and we will let you know when the series is available for purchase.

World Music Song Chart

Use Your Flute In The Key Of	Song #	Song Title	Artist Name Learn about these artists at the bottom of this page.	Artist Location	Song Date	The Notes To Play On Your Flute

A	01	June	Calypsos	Italy	2008	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation Two Shown Above
A	02	Lilly's Lullaby	Marty McKimmey	The World	2008	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation One Shown Above
A	03	Carefree	Mukesh Lobo	United Arab Emirates	2008	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation One Shown Above
A	04	Never Know	Blucas	U.S.A	2007	Our Book - page 16
A	05	Prayer From The Heart	Josec Neto	Brazil	2008	Our Book - page 19
A	06	Drifting	Jobar 44	Australia	2007	New Book Release Date 2010
A	07	Nova Tango	Komnas	Greece	2006	New Book RRelease Date 2010

Bb	08	Turkish Delight	Homeless Balloon	Norway	2007	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation One Shown Above
Bb	09	Doggie Follow De Nose	Paul Adams	U.S.A.	1990	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation Two Shown Above
Bb	10	Angel	Arnaldo Lopez	Netherlands	2006	Our Book - page 19
Bb	11	Part Of My Life (Piano Solo)	Manju	India	2007	New Book Release Date 2010
Bb	12	Sweet Remembrance	Andrei Birsan	Spain	2005	Our Book - page 19
Bb	13	Just A Matter Of Time	Basem	Egypt	2004	New Book RRelease Date 2010
Bb	14	Piano Jam recorded on 22/08/2008	Oli Bell	United Kingdom	2008	New Book Release Date 2010

B	15	A Song For Lisa	John Lava	United Kingdom	2007	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation Two Shown Above
B	16	Into The Blue Wide Open	Andre G	Germany	2008	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation One Shown Above
B	17	Return Of The Red Kite	Rob Starkey	Australia	2007	Our Book - page 18
B	18	Fayethe	Paul Adams	U.S.A.	1990	New Book Release Date 2010
B	19	Song for a little Girl in Flames	Stefan Leipziger	Germany	2003	New Book Release Date 2010

C	20	Rain of Sorrow	Piano Soulos	U.S.A.	2006	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation One Shown Above
C	21	The Metropolis	Basem	Egypt	2004	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation Two Shown Above
C	22	Ode To A Pelican	Rob Van Niel	U.S.A.	2005	Our Book - page 21
C	23	El llanto	Efrain	Mexico	2007	New Book Release Date 2010
C	24	Water Falls	Glen Heffner	U.S.A.	2007	New Book Release Date 2010
C	25	Hurry Slowly	Homeless Balloon	Norway	2008	New Book Release Date 2010
C	26	New Adventures	Steve Mulhern	United Kingdom	2006	New Book RRelease Date 2010

C#	27	1112	Wahur	Estonia	2005	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation One Shown Above
C#	28	Livin' backing	Wahur	Estonia	2005	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation Two Shown Above
C#	29	Far Off East	M Bennett	United Kingdom	2005	New Book Release Date 2010
C#	30	Gently, oh, so gently	Stefan Leipzige	Germany	2004	New Book Release Date 2010
C#	31	Rocky Valley	John Paul Butterworth	United Kingdom	2006	New Book Release Date 2010
C#	32	Por siempre	Efrain	Mexico	2007	New Book Release Date 2010
C#	33	Home	Glen Heffner	U.S.A.	2004	New Book Release Date 2010

D	34	Blue Groove	Kirk Lorange	Australia	2005	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation Two Shown Above
D	35	Reverend Blues 2	Andreas O'Carrol	Denmark	2007	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation One Shown Above
D	36	Koh Samui	Stoman	Germany	2007	Our Book - page 19
D	37	Northern Lights	Open Source	Netherlands	2004	Our Book - page 19
D	38	Wach auf	Simon Oeller	Austria	2008	Our Book - page 19
D	39	Seven Candles in the Darkness	Josec Neto	Brazil	2008	Our Book - page 19
D	40	Ocean Blvd. Blues	Blucas	U.S.A.	2008	New Book Release Date 2010

Eb	41	Last Chance	Bruce Forrest	United Kingdom	2007	New Book Release Date 2010
Eb	42	Nana 1985	Manuel Galan	Spain	2007	New Book Release Date 2010

E	43	On With The Show	Bob Speidell	U.S.A.	2005	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation Two Shown Above
E	44	Ode To Olivia	Ozan Gurhan	Turkey	2006	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation Two Shown Above
E	45	Spanish Romance	Byron Zeliotis	Greece	2007	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation One Shown Above
E	46	Bad Day Instrumental	Seniah	United Kingdom	2006	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation Two Shown Above
E	47	Nightfall	Guido Negraszus	Australia	2006	New Book Release Date 2010

F	48	Point of No Return	Roger Subirana	Spain	2007	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation Two Shown Above
F	49	Whatever You Want	Maarten Janssens	Netherlands	2005	New Book Release Date 2010
F	50	Mellow Waltz	Wahur	Estonia		New Book Release Date 2010

F#	51	Tangosation	Edison (Cro)	Croatia	2008	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation One Shown Above
F#	52	Helen	Komnas	Greece	2006	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation Two Shown Above
F#	53	Dance Of The Forest Fruits	Paul Adams	U.S.A.	1990	Our Book - page 23
F#	54	Ephemeral	Rob Starkey	Australia	2008	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation One Shown Above
F#	55	Un momento eterno	Roger Subirana	Spain	2006	Our Book - page 17
F#	56	Pianot	Alcedo	Sweden	2007	New Book Release Date 2010
F#	57	Joy	Silent Stream	Belguim	2006	New Book RRelease Date 2010

G	58	Freedom At Last	Ken Egervari	Canada	2008	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation One Shown Above
G	59	Princess	Daniel Farjoun	Brazil	2004	Our Book - page 19
G	60	Something Blue	Jazz n Samba	Netherlands	2008	Minor Pentatonic Scale Variation One Shown Above
G	61	Little Lullaby	Stefan Leipzige	Germany	2007	Our Book - page 19
G	62	Life	Acapulco Brothers	Australia	2006	New Book Release Date 2010
G	63	Journey of Dreams	Guido Negraszus	Australia	1998	New Book Release Date 2010

Ab	64	Alone	OoDee	Finland	2005	New Book Release Date 2010
Ab	65	Piano Jam recorded on 22/08/2008	Oli Bell	United Kingdom	2008	New Book Release Date 2010

Breathing - Using Your Diaphragm - Creating Vibrato Effect

Play Native American Flute

Breathing from your diaphragm is paramount to getting the most out of your Native American Flute playing experience. Below are some instructional sound clips to get you started.

1. How do I tell whether I am breathing from my diaphragm?

Hear the Answer: Click Here

2. What is the difference in sound when you play a note plainly versus playing a note using vibrato?

Hear the Answer: Click Here

3. What does it sound like to "hold a note", using my diaphragm?

Hear the Answer: Click Here

4. What do slow vibrato and fast vibrato sound like?

Hear the Answer:Click Here

5. Here is an example of where to use vibrato in your phrasing.

Click Here

Yes, let me know
when the series is available.
Click Here

"Learn To Play Along With Other Musicians"

New Book/CD Series ~ Available in 2010
The series contains: music from 26 countries, 50 talented artists, and 130 songs.

* A book for each key of flute (A,Bb,B,C,C#,D,Eb,E,F,F#,G,Ab)
* Fingering Charts and Phrasing/Lick Charts for each song.
* Get to know the musicians personally.
* Play along with: guitars, drums, pianos, keyboards, strings, synthesizers etc..
* Each book comes with a Double CD of 20 songs plus additional instructional music.

"I want to thank all the musicians who have contributed their music to this exciting book/cd project. They come from countries all around the world. They are some of my favorite musicians to accompany, using my Native American Flutes. You will have fun playing along with them too. Their music is inspiring."
Lisa Fretwell - Native American Flute Player

Lisa Fretwell - Native American Flute Player

~ Lisa Fretwell - of Fretwell Flutes ~

Bookmark this page or email us. We will let you know when the series is available for purchase. Jerry@FretwellFlutes.com

Want to Learn More About Your Flute?

If you want to learn more about the notes you can play on your Native American Flute and you want to learn some already written songs for the Native American Flute, please order our easy to use instructional books.

Easy to read flute playing diagrams, (tabs) throughout the books. You do not need to know how to read music to learn how to play the Native American Flute.

Available for the 5 or 6 hole flute.

Getting to Know Your
Native American Flute

13 Original Songs for the
Native American Flute

$19.95 + s&h
Order Book

In this 46 page spiral bound book you will find instructions for beginner, intermediate, and advanced flute techniques, flute care, musical scales, and song charts.

The easy to read flute playing diagrams (tablature) make it possible for you to start playing your flute right away. You do not need to know how to read music to use this book.

Traditional Scale Songs
" Lemon Grass "
" Waving Wind"

11 Popular Songs
"Amazing Grace"
"America the Beautiful"
"Auld Lang Syne"
"Aura Lee"
"Down in the Valley"
"Greensleeves"
"Happy Birthday"
"La Bamba"
"Scarborough Fair"
"Shenandoah"
"Sweet River Flows"

11 Music Scales
Blues Scale
Diatonic Scale
Dorian Scale
Major Scale
Natural Minor Scale
Pentatonic Major Scale
Pentatonic Minor Scale
Phyrygian Scale
Romanian Minor Scale
Spanish Gypsy Scale
Chromatic Scale

SONG SOUND SAMPLES

Click Here		Amazing Grace

Click Here		Greensleeves

$19.95 + s&h
Order Book

CD included

In this 15 page spiral bound book you will find instructions on beginner playing. You will be able to play these Native American flute songs with ease due in part to the simple to read flute playing diagrams (tablature).

You do not need to know how to read music to use this Native American flute song book. This book comes complete with a CD of the songs played by us.

There are 13 Native American Flute Songs included in this book.

SONG LISTING
"Ursa - She Bear"
"Selleb Trebor"
"Rescue"
"Old Man"
"Moon Faze"
"Hint Of Ceremony"
"Delicate Dream"
"Nature's Face"
"Equine Step"
"Golden Light"
"Fragile No More"
"Shyela"
"Lautirips Contact"

SONG SOUND SAMPLES

Click Here		Old Man

Click Here		Delicate Dream

Artists	Website

Acapulco Brothers	Click Here
Alcedo	Click Here
Andreas O'Carroll	Click Here
Andre G	Click Here
Andrei Birsan	Click Here
Arnaldo Lopez	Click Here
Basem	Click Here
Bob Speidell	Click Here
Blucas	Click Here
Bluesman (DK)	Click Here
Bruce Forrest	Click Here
Byron Zeliotis	Click Here
Calypsos	Click Here
Daniel Farjoun	Click Here
Edison (Cro)	Click Here
Efrain	Click Here
Glen Heffner	Click Here
Guido Negraszus	Click Here
Homeless Balloon	Click Here
Jazz and Samba	Click Here
Jobar 44	Click Here
John Lava	Click Here
John Paul Butterworth	Click Here
Josec Neto	Click Here
Ken Egervari	Click Here
Kirk Lorange	Click Here
Komnas	Click Here
Paul Adams	Click Here
Piano Soulos	Click Here
Manju	Click Here
Maarten Janssens	Click Here
Manuel Galan	Click Here
Marty McKimmey	Click Here
M Bennett	Click Here
Michel Griffin	Click Here
Mukesh Lobo	Click Here
OoDee	Click Here
Oli Bell	Click Here
Open Source	Click Here
Ozan Gurhan	Click Here
Rob Starkey	Click Here
Rob Van Niel	Click Here
Roger Subirana	Click Here
Seniah	Click Here
Simon Oeller	Click Here
Silent Stream	Click Here
Stefan Leipzige	Click Here
Steve Mulhern	Click Here
Stoman	Click Here
Wahur	Click Here