Modal Flute Warmup: Sound Discovery and Color Palette Expansion

Do you want to discover color and emotion in your playing?

Is something missing in your practicing?

Here is an essential book for any flutist who is eager to explore a new warmup approach that invites a sense of discovery and sparks joy in the process. Based on modes, this book is for flutists (high school level and up) and their teachers.

Through six different types of exercises, all based on modes, this unique warmup book engages the flutist’s mind at every turn, encouraging and guiding them to explore and reflect on their playing.

Lentz engages the flutist’s attention and imagination, encouraging awareness, curiosity, and creativity throughout the book. She guides readers to use the exercises in a way that mindfully nurtures reflection and guides the flutist to spend time absorbing information and receiving/analyzing feedback about how we play.

She also invites flutists to explore how movement and awareness of both what we are doing and what we are thinking helps us connect more to our physical and musical expression.

In addition, the use of modes engages the flutist’s attention and imagination, allowing an exploration of colors and tonalities they might not be familiar with—and simultaneously expanding technical flexibility with intervals and fingerings not common in tonal music—in a structured and imaginative way.

It is an essential work for any flutist who finds themselves eager to explore a new warmup approach that invites a sense of discovery, and sparks joy in the process.