Description
Expansion Packet for Modal Flute Warmup
The Expansion Packet for the second version of Modal Flute Warmup introduces a wealth of new tools, duets, and creative exercises to deepen your practice and exploration. Designed for flutists of all levels, this material emphasizes collaboration, curiosity, and expressive freedom while expanding on the original warmup exercises.
A duet part has been added to the original Modal Melodic Patterns (Part 6), allowing teachers, students, or friends to warm up together side by side.
In addition, seven newly composed duets provide opportunities for equal partnership, encouraging dialogue, phrasing exploration, tonal color development, ensemble listening, and improvisation, all while introducing modal concepts and extended techniques.
The Discovery Flute Cards are included as part of this expansion, offering short prompts grouped into Noticing, Imagining, Experimenting, and Expressing. These prompts spark curiosity, enhance awareness, and support expressive exploration, making them ideal for practice, warmups, lessons, or creative breaks.
To further support practice and collaborative work, new drone recordings are available for all six parts of the warmup, as well as for the duets. Drones for the warmup can be found on YouTube, and drones and duet recordings are available on Bandcamp, providing flexible tools for practice, improvisation, and ensemble development.
The Expansion Packet enriches the Modal Flute Warmup experience by creating new opportunities and space for questions, discoveries, and musical insight.
Discovery Flute Cards
Created in collaboration with flutist and educator Anastasia Mousouli, Discovery Flute Cards is a set of 80 thoughtfully designed prompts that build on the philosophy of discovery central to Modal Flute Warmup. These cards are crafted to inspire and support students, teachers, and performers at all levels in cultivating awareness, mindfulness, and expressive connection in their playing.
Organized into four thematic categories—Noticing, Imagining, Experimenting, and Expressing—each containing 20 prompts, the cards guide musicians in exploring breath, tone, emotion, and artistic voice. Noticing encourages reflection and awareness of body, breath, and sound, moving toward habits, mindset, and interpretation. Imagining fosters creative visualization and emotional connection, from internal sensations to outward projection of energy and sound. Experimenting invites playful curiosity, exploring physicality, tone, improvisation, and collaborative interaction. Expressing deepens artistry, guiding players to connect emotion, personal voice, and interpretive intention with expressive technique.
Designed to be versatile, the cards can be used to structure lessons, inspire warmups, prompt improvisation, or encourage reflective practice. They can be drawn at random, chosen deliberately, or incorporated into interactive activities—such as “paper fortune tellers”—as a playful way to let chance determine the card choice.
A blank page at the end of the set encourages creating custom prompts, allowing the set to grow with your practice and creative ideas.
Whether for individual practice, studio teaching, or ensemble work, Discovery Flute Cards cultivate the habit of tuning in—paying attention to oneself, one’s instrument, and the moment—helping players connect more deeply with their sound, imagination, and expressive voice.
