Anasazi Flute Scale, the basic scale
Learn how to play
the Anasazi flute
and the scale of the Ancients
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The
Basic Scale of the Anasazi Flute The
Anasazi
flute,
currently recreated by Michael Graham Allen, is
starting to gain popularity among players of the
modern "plains" style Native American flute. It's
haunting sound and ability to maneuver through the
overtones of the harmonic series creates a very
seductive sound. Since more people are becoming
interested in them let's take a closer look at how
the basic scale is set up on this flute and how it
differs from the modern NAF. A
DIFFERENT PENTATONIC SCALE Let's
listen to examples of both these scales starting on
F#.
by
Scot
August
First here is a quick look at how a Anasazi flute
is held. As you can see the lower half of the
mouthpiece end of the flute is set in the middle of
the jaw. The player blows across the top part of
the rim with the flute held at a 45û angle. We'll
take a closer look at this later. For now let's
take a look at the basic scale.
The
Anasazi flute, like the modern Native American
flute, has a pentatonic scale as it's basic scale.
However, it's not the NAF's minor version of the
pentatonic but the major version. A pentatonic
scale has five notes (from the Greek pente: five)
plus the octave.
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Scott
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