Benji Rose

Benji Rose's Virtual Studio


About This Space

As a multi-instrumentalist, I'm interested in where worlds collide. I explore these ideas through performance, writing, and teaching.

The basic principle of my artistic philosophy is getting away from standardisation and ideas of virtuoso. Music isn't about flawless execution. It's about finding your voice, understanding your instrument, and making something that matters to you.

Breathing

Master Your Breath, Master Your Music

Breathing for Wind Instruments transforms an unconscious biological function into a powerful musical tool. This evidence-based resource cuts through the confusion of traditional pedagogy to reveal what actually happens when professional wind players breathe.

Flute Embouchure

The French gave us embouchure, a polite term for the art of not letting air escape where it shouldn't. This guide cuts through the myths about flute positioning: there is no universal 'correct' placement, centred embouchures are often wrong, and your face simply doesn't work like anyone else's.

Resonance

Resonance and Sound Production reveals the secret that transforms good wind players into great ones: your body is not just supporting your instrument, it is the instrument.

This guide demystifies the art of resonance, showing you how to consciously create richer, more projecting, and colourful sound. Drawing on voice science research and acoustic principles, it explains what's actually happening inside your body when you produce beautiful tone.

Altissimo: The Complete Harmonic Manual

Many woodwind players struggle with extended range techniques because they're taught what to do without understanding why it works. This  guide changes that by revealing the acoustic physics underlying tone production across saxophones, flutes, and recorders, from fundamental notes to the highest reaches of each instrument's range.

Starting with the basics of sound waves, this manual builds a complete understanding of how woodwind instruments create pitch.

Improvisation

There is a moment every musician knows. Your fingers are poised over the instrument, the chord progression drones beneath you, and someone says: improvise. In that instant, all those hours of scales and arpeggios, all that technical mastery, seems to evaporate like morning mist. The gap between what you can play and what you can create yawns before you, vast and terrifying.

This method is about closing that gap.