Meditative Flute: Learn how to play the Native American flute to enhance your Yoga, Meditation, Biking, Walk/Run, Pilates, Tai Chi, Workout, or Feldenkrais practice

Very good book for beginners-to-Intermediate skill on the NAF. This is a surprisingly thick little book and fairly comprehensive, in that it covers more material than simply giving you song tabs. There is a short chapter about Native American flutes as well as a short chapter about meditation....(these can be skipped if you like)....and a section on the basics of playing the NAF. The variety of songs included in this book run from simple practice 'sing-song' tunes, to meditative 'chant' sounds, to the more traditional Native American songs. LOTS of music for a very modest price.Claassen walks you thru reading NAF tablature, as well a sections on breath control, note shaping, and various sound techniques. There are many practice exercises, each emphasizing a slightly different skill. The book provides download links for videos, and mp3 sound files of all the songs and exercises. Quality of the sound files is excellent and quite helpful.A quick caution.....the overall writing style of the book uses frequent references to meditation, yoga, breathing, stretches, etc. . If you are into this sort of thing, then the book will flow. If you are not, then you may find the writing style a bit tedious.If you fall into the later camp, I strongly urge that you not dismiss the book because of the writing style. The flute techniques, exercises, tablature reading, and general flute tutorials are actually quite good. The song selection contains enough varied material that anyone will find enough flute tabs to their liking to make it worth the price of the book.

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2 stars because I admire anybody that gets something published, but there's better stuff out there. The frequent references to a flute made out of toilet bowl material (pvc pipe) is oddly out of place in this Patchoulli reeking piddle. Buy this if you're friends of the author, he's probably a nice guy, otherwise search elsewhere. Try Scott August for one- and there are others.

à priori, la méthode n'est pas mal faite. et, même si la lecture du livre -en anglais - reste dans une certaine austérité, c'est encore acceptable pour qui veut s'accrocher. Le prix de cette méthode est relativement élevé et semblait se justifier puisque sur la deuxième de couverture il est précisé "Included in the price of this book is a video tutorial as well as 85 audio files ..."Malheureusement, je n'ai reçu que le livre et aucune video ni fichiers mp3.. Heureusement en lisant le livre "normalement" c'est-à-dire en ne l'ouvrant pas au milieu, j'ai trouvé l'adresse où télécharger vidéo et mp3 et, après quelques tatonnements, j'ai réussi à avoir sur mon ordinateur tout ce qui étéit promis. Donc je révise à la hausse ma notation !!!!