Thanks T - wish I'd heard that 35 years ago; I might've made some progress by now. Oh, another top tip for us old guys (following on from Patrick's comments below) - biggest improvement to my sight-reading came when I focused on improving it, but the second biggest was when I got a pair of "occupational" glasses, somewhere between reading and distance ones. Suddenly those dots were sharp and stopped slithering around the page.
Hello Tatiana! I just want to say that your videos have helped me a lot! I've only been playing flute for 19 days and watching your videos makes my flute journey less daunting! I uploaded my videos on this account. I've been playing piano since I was 16 and I can definitely say that the flute is my new lover haha. Anyway, thank you again and please don't stop helping poor flutists like us! lol
I had right hand problems until I did the Rocktro position for many years (with the thumb on the side of the tube not under it) but then I started playing traverso and ironically (as I'm pretty sure Rockstro was writing about a traverso and not modern flute... modern flute is pretty heavy for that thumb position (I play a Guo Grenaditte)) the Eb key on my traverso is the wrong length to do this position so without realizing my thumb went back under the flute and now on modern flute my thumb is under like most people but I have no more problems in my right hand... however, when I got for the Ab key with my left hand there is play; I juggle the flute a bit, it can make the notes uneven, and I don't know how to fix it. I haven't taken lessons since the pandemic but the two teachers I ran this by before didn't have any concrete suggestions that I remember. The other thing that's been bugging me lately is the E at the top of the staff and sometimes the F and G but mostly just the E is extremely delicate. If I blow too hard, try to get it louder, it becomes unstable, cracks down to the low octave but as a multiphonic where the harmonics are out of phase with each other, some of both octaves are in the note but they come and go rapidly, like a tremolo. This especially happens when I approach the E from a well focused C below it in an arpeggio. I know I should be able to do this without stopping and starting the air, which I guess I was doing for years and masked this problem by doing it, but when I do the arpeggio with steady air this happened. Acoustically the multiphonic is fascinating and might be desirable if I could do it on cue, but I'd rather not be doing it by accident. I've tried making a rounder, taller, less flat, less wide embouchure, thinking forward, thinking "oo", aiming less down and more forward, and on different days sometimes all of these things work to some extant but then it feels less like 'my tone' or when I want to make a dark, heavy, complex tone on that note that I'm moving away from that by doing all of these things. For a time this would happen on nearly every E in a piece, and then then one day I woke up and played and it was fine, the note was just normal and worked well all day... and now it is coming back but it's not as bad or as often as it was before. I don't understand the mechanism that causes this, and I've tried to. As far as I can tell I did nothing different on the day where it was absolutely fine vs the days when it was troublesome.
@@TheFlutePractice I guess that means you like to see? BTW I finally figured out why I had trouble getting to the B key and the C gizmo with my right hand thanks to you. Now to figure out why my high E sounds A and the A sounds E most of the time!
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You are talking about it in very charming way. I like it. Regards from Zagreb Croatia!
Thanks T - wish I'd heard that 35 years ago; I might've made some progress by now. Oh, another top tip for us old guys (following on from Patrick's comments below) - biggest improvement to my sight-reading came when I focused on improving it, but the second biggest was when I got a pair of "occupational" glasses, somewhere between reading and distance ones. Suddenly those dots were sharp and stopped slithering around the page.
Learning how to practice efficiently is so important, and many people don't realise it.
Thank you Tatiana, so clear, so simple, so evident, so musical...and so opposite to how I've been practicing !!!
Hello Tatiana! I just want to say that your videos have helped me a lot! I've only been playing flute for 19 days and watching your videos makes my flute journey less daunting! I uploaded my videos on this account. I've been playing piano since I was 16 and I can definitely say that the flute is my new lover haha. Anyway, thank you again and please don't stop helping poor flutists like us! lol
Excellent advise!! Thank you so much!
I had right hand problems until I did the Rocktro position for many years (with the thumb on the side of the tube not under it) but then I started playing traverso and ironically (as I'm pretty sure Rockstro was writing about a traverso and not modern flute... modern flute is pretty heavy for that thumb position (I play a Guo Grenaditte)) the Eb key on my traverso is the wrong length to do this position so without realizing my thumb went back under the flute and now on modern flute my thumb is under like most people but I have no more problems in my right hand... however, when I got for the Ab key with my left hand there is play; I juggle the flute a bit, it can make the notes uneven, and I don't know how to fix it. I haven't taken lessons since the pandemic but the two teachers I ran this by before didn't have any concrete suggestions that I remember. The other thing that's been bugging me lately is the E at the top of the staff and sometimes the F and G but mostly just the E is extremely delicate. If I blow too hard, try to get it louder, it becomes unstable, cracks down to the low octave but as a multiphonic where the harmonics are out of phase with each other, some of both octaves are in the note but they come and go rapidly, like a tremolo. This especially happens when I approach the E from a well focused C below it in an arpeggio. I know I should be able to do this without stopping and starting the air, which I guess I was doing for years and masked this problem by doing it, but when I do the arpeggio with steady air this happened. Acoustically the multiphonic is fascinating and might be desirable if I could do it on cue, but I'd rather not be doing it by accident. I've tried making a rounder, taller, less flat, less wide embouchure, thinking forward, thinking "oo", aiming less down and more forward, and on different days sometimes all of these things work to some extant but then it feels less like 'my tone' or when I want to make a dark, heavy, complex tone on that note that I'm moving away from that by doing all of these things. For a time this would happen on nearly every E in a piece, and then then one day I woke up and played and it was fine, the note was just normal and worked well all day... and now it is coming back but it's not as bad or as often as it was before. I don't understand the mechanism that causes this, and I've tried to. As far as I can tell I did nothing different on the day where it was absolutely fine vs the days when it was troublesome.
Love those earrings and see you are wearing your glasses more often.
🤓 I think I like them more and more!
@@TheFlutePractice I guess that means you like to see? BTW I finally figured out why I had trouble getting to the B key and the C gizmo with my right hand thanks to you. Now to figure out why my high E sounds A and the A sounds E most of the time!
Thank you
Yay! We use the same metronome!
Hehe! That is very cool!