Welcome to Week 12 of flute lessons in the music coach program. You made it. Here we are at the end of the program. I want to congratulate you on doing a great job and following through and getting all the way to the end. This week, we're going to work on putting together all of the skills that you've built through the entire program, playing the melodies for both sections, being able to play the bass notes for both sections, being able to improvise by using your scale patterns and embellishing the melody. And the last new thing we're going to work on is the building of your solo.

Part of what makes a solo solo dynamic when it's being improvised is it has the ability to truly change the shape of the song in real time. Meaning at the beginning of someone's solo, no one really knows how it's going to go including the person playing it. So it can build in energy it can pull back, it can be played higher and louder, or it can be played soccer and lower. So playing with these shapes is a is a great way to add energy and interest in your solo. So when you're practicing along the practice video, try and think about directions that you want to go in by starting low and finishing high, or starting high and finishing low. And you can also begin your solo by embellishing the melody or and your solo by embellishing the melody or both.

It can be a great cue for other people in your band that you're finished taking your solo when you play the melody at the end. You've not just added a great musical skill by getting to the end of the program. It's a great life skill to be able to follow through with something all the way to the end. And my hat is off to you don't even have to have a great work and we'll see in the practice video.