Welcome to From Intonation to intuition, a 14-day challenge designed to help you become a more confident, flexible and intuitive in your intonation.

Intonation is one of the most important—and often one of the most frustrating—aspects of playing the flute. Working on it can sometimes feel like a visit to the dentist: necessary, but not something we naturally look forward to. A tuner seems to expose every tiny imperfection in our playing, and discovering how often we're out of tune can be discouraging.

Fortunately, intonation is much more than matching a needle on a tuner. Thinking of playing in tune as a musical act, not a mechnical one, is key. Learning to tune your ears to what surrounds us, and sometimes, what we have to imagine surrounds us.

A tuner can tell you whether a note is at A=442, but it cannot tell you whether a chord feels balanced, or whether an interval feels right. Those are things that only careful listening can teach.

During these two weeks, we will train not only your flute, but more importantly, your ears.

The structure is:

Days 1-3 — Unisono & octaves

Days 4–6 — Fourths & Fifths

Days 7–9 — Thirds & Sixths

Days 10-12 — Harmonies

Days 13-14 — Extended intonation

And the work is done through technical exercises, etudes and excerpts, which will gradualy help us "Tune" our ears better and become more intuitive when it comes to intonation.

Looking forward to meeting you in the challenge!

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