VISUAL PERSPECTIVE
Zoom sessions use an overhead camera, so my Innato position precisely reflects your playing perspective.
Inside presence & connection
ETUDE
LEARNING
Short, melodic mini pieces created to open new pathways for your Innato playing.
Twelve brief Etudes progress from accessible to complex, revealing skills that could otherwise take years to discover. Every one is meant to be fun.
Alan TowerInnato co-designer & teacher
A direct way in
IMPROVE THROUGH
VISUAL PERSPECTIVE,
GEOMETRIC FORM
AND STRONG MELODY
Sessions occur live over Zoom
THIS IS GOLDWorking with the Etudes naturally brings you back to the Innato each day.
GEOMETRY
We use Xs, triangles, and other forms for clarity and memory.
MELODY & FORM
The Innato has six different tones, four octaves, and two unisons. Within this limited palette, Etudes use memorable melody and simple AB form—helping lock it all in so you can improvise and generate your own riffs.
Player responses
WHAT ETUDE
PLAYERS SAY
“These Etudes help you develop finger independence and a deep understanding of harmonic structure and progression. They have also inspired my own melodic riffs and compositions.”
Beth Friedman–RomellMusician & soundwork practitioner · Ohio
Your Etude coach
ALAN TOWER
Alan Tower and maker Hans Houkes designed the Innato together in 2015. Alan began playing the Huaca in the 1990s—the complex, three-chambered instrument on which the Innato is based.
His eighteen albums of original acoustic music include two solo Huaca albums and an Innato album created with Hans Houkes.
Begin the fun
READY
TO PLAY?
I am very passionate about turning players on to these Etudes because I really see the difference they can make. My goal is to have the wind section of an orchestra all become Innato players, learning Etudes faster than lightning!