Me and my fellow flutists just tuned 1 time and memorized the head joint placement so we can just adjust it to the same spot every day and be in tune :)
hey im hannah- You need to tune every day because the weather can affect how your flute tunes. Cold, it’s flat. Hot, it’s sharp. Memorizing where your head joint is, isn’t accurate.
You're so funny! I actually started doing vibrato by accident. I was always nervous when i was playing solos, so my whole body would start to shake and i would end up with an involuntary vibrato. One day my teacher asked me if i had learned vibrato and i didn't know what he was talking about. From then on i started doing it on purpose. But, based on your video, it looks like my vibrato is coming from the right part of my body--lucky for me it turned out that way!
omg I actually do the same thing. Everytime I have a solo, or a new solo suddenly handed to me I'll shake a lot and kinda have a vibrato sound to it. But tbh I want to actually learn vibrato the right way because I sound dumb lol
I played my first solo at a concert a couple months ago and I was so nervous. My breath was so shaky and I messed up so much. I asked a friend how bad I did and he said my vibrato was good. I was like whaaaatttt???? So I was so shaky, I was doing vibrato on accident😂
My vibrato comes naturally also. The first time I played a solo years ago, the judge commented on my beautiful vibrato. I didn't know what it was. It was actually anxiety, but I just learned to play that way.
I was interested in vibtrato on my flute, but I didn't understand how to it. one woman gave the suggesion: try to say "hahahaha" or "who who who" with flute. it works) My vibrato isn't very good, but I try)
The "too much vibrato", especially when it reaches quarter-tones, is actually a very beautiful technique that can be found in contemporary classical music. For example, if you listen to the second movement of Kaija Saariaho's "Aile du songe" (wing of the dream), it starts with that kind of vibrato over a high G.
Thank you so much for this! I'm a junior in my marching band and I was never taught this in elementary school, sadly. I have a solo part in my field show and they're asking me to use vibrato, which I barely have practice with. This helps me a lot!
I love this video! I love how to add a twist on your videos that gives it a bit of a humor element! I'm 14 and have been playing flute for 5 years. Thank you for these videos!
I am probably old enough to be your grandfather, yet I am captivated by your knowledge and your sense of humor. I don't yet have a flute, but if ever I get one, I'll be back to follow your lessons. Love it!
I've played flute for almost 7 years (I'm about 16 now). I've moved to 3 different schools, had 5 different directors, and 3 extremely talented section leaders, and no one has ever thought to teach or mention vibrato to me. This video helped so much. Thanks!
Wow, I'm a freshman and I'm trying to look for new ways to improve my vibrato and this has been the most helpful! Thank you so much! I can't wait to tell everyone else in my section
slow = diaphragm-generated vibrato. fast vibrato is from the larynx. The former is conscious. The latter is the autonomic nervous system. The former is positively controlled. The latter you have to just "think" what you want. Also, 2 aspects to vibrato: amplitude and frequency. Mix them for infinite variety.
Except, no flutist actually creates vibrato by pumping their abs five times/second. We witness their gently pulsating throats, not shirts and dresses fluttering like sails in the wind.
I just happen to stumble upon you teaching video. It is informative and your sense of humor is an added bonus. I have always avoided Vibato. Now its time to give it a try per your instructions. Thanks!
I follow you on Curious!!! Here you are! Hahaha. I love your videos. I had 10 years formal training..and about 7 off...picked up a flute a month ago and I'm pleasantly surprised that it is much like riding a bike, in the sense that I didn't forget...but obviously I'm rusty ...your videos are helping me get back to the status I left off! Thanks so much.
I'm trying to learn vibrato for my senior year marching band show, Paradise Reclaimed, because my friend (who is the trumpet section leader) suggested I ad vibrato to the sustained note at the end of the solo. Thanks for this!
Hey, 2 years that im lonely trying to learn flute and this is the first real tutorial of vibrato i found. Thank you for sharing and for the joyful video =D
Love your channel. Glad I found you! I've played flute for a year now (self-taught) and videos like this are so helpful. Also you're just a nice and quirky person. Keep it up :)
Omg this was so helpful. I have been playing flute for 9 years and never learned. It wasnt until i started making flute videos for youtube that people told me i should add it. Thank you
You are awesome and soo funny!! I just loved watching this, especially the end!!! I'm working on my vibrato at the moment and this lightened my mood so much, thank you!!!
I'm a flutist and I'm in a band in school, one of my flute friends can do great at Vibrato, but all of us know how to do it, but than I watch your video and now I know what to do better. This video is great and you made it sound so easy to learn how to do Vibrato. Thanks. You're really funny too. :)
You are a hoot!!! I played the flute in grade school and high school, and I could never achieve a vibrato......you made it look easy!!! I'm going to try this. Thanks for the pointers!!!
I was looking for several ways to describe how to do a vibrato properly/develop a good vibrato for my high school students, and this video gave me some new tips- thanks! Then again, having a good tone without vibrato, I think, is equally important, especially when practicing intonation :) Thank you for inspiring videos!
Haha, thank you! Got those earrings from a little stand that was about a 2-minute walk away from a rehearsal I was going to one day, HAHA! My guilty pleasure... :P
See also: Woodwind Vibrato from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Performance Practice Review, 8(1), 67-72. www.academia.edu/1980355/Woodwind_Vibrato_from_the_Eighteenth_Century_to_the_Present._Performance_Practice_Review_8_1_67-72 AND El Vibrato de Viento-Madera desde el Siglo XVIII hasta Hoy. Quodlibet Revista de Especialización Musical (Madrid), 18, 37-42. www.academia.edu/1980356/El_Vibrato_de_Viento-Madera_desde_el_Siglo_XVIII_hasta_Hoy._Quodlibet_Revista_de_Especializaci%C3%B3n_Musical_Madrid_18_37-42
Love your videos! I've started teaching private lessons but sometimes I struggle with explaining things to students and your videos have been very helpful not to mention funny :) thanks for all that you do!
I just wanted to let you know, this video helped me immensely to try and explain the basic concepts of vibrato to a room full of middle schoolers. thank you!!!!!
As Galway himself has correctly stated, "No one can train their diaphragm (abs) to do that (pulsate five times a second). Vibrato happens somewhere in the throat."
Haha, there's a lot more to vibrato than what I've covered in this video--this is just a very very preliminary overview because so many people were asking about it. ;) Glad I was of help, though!
Actually some singers use the vibrato made with the throat. Like Rihanna (Diamonds). It's very used in R'n'B, Jazz, sometimes in Pop music. We use it to make riffs for example - go to watch the videos of Natalie Wiess.
This helped me so much...Lol you're so funny. I've been looking for the right tutorial for like ever. I haven't been able to do vibrato for the 3 1/2 years that I've been playing and this helped a lot so thanks. :)
I think there is a way to tune your flute, by adjusting the cork position in the head joint, you could use the tuner to see if you are too sharp or too flat, but it doesn't get tuned like a guitar. I guess you would only do this if the tuning rod does not help.
Great video on Vibrato! This is also how I was taught and a few method books discuss it in this matter. Your examples of how not to sound are great for any flutist to hear. Thanks for your comments on my Orchestral Excerpts by the way! This also make me feel better about my vibrato in the Debussy hehe
A couple exercises help to develop control of vibrato, by making the diaphragm and rib cage muscles more controllable: 1) powerfully open your lungs to their absolute maximum and hold that for 3 seconds (first using the diaphragm only, then with rib cage only, then using both).....follow this by first relaxing and taking a few breaths for a minute and then completely expelling all air from your lungs and holding them closed/empty for a few seconds (using diaphragm only, first, then with rib cage only, then using both), try doing those exercises 5x each, and then 2) breath as fast as you can pumping air in/out/in/out back and forth as fast as you can. You can do this just using a little air to exchange in and out, or pumping 1/2 a lung-full of air in and out. These two exercises will wake up a sense of control of the nerves and muscles of the diaphragm and rib cage and when it comes time to do a vibrato, your control, your feel for it, should be more readily available. Oh, and flutes don't need tuners? That's right, I only buy records and go to concerts of bands that never tune any of their instruments. Good times in music stores! NOTE: the #1 exercise above, if you haven't been doing things like that or aren't a regular wind instrument player already, may give you a little temporary and normal post-exercise tightness or soreness in the lower abdomen or rib cage for a couple days if you're not used to such actions already (a contraction of muscles in one direction includes stretching muscles in the other direction), and this is a normal result of starting new muscle actions and including a little fast-twitch action exercises. The soreness and tightness go away after a couple days, as you know, but I wanted to remind people of this so that if you currently scheduling a performance, NOT to start new exercises of this type within 4 days before that public performance. Start after, so you've worked through that 2 days of possible soreness and tightness and your next performance isn't impacted EXCEPT by the great improvement in your lung control these exercises may give!
A great teaching video - and made me smile all the way through. At 6.03 when you feel sick and fall over, I'd love to see a two-second clip inserted of you throwing up into a bucket.
Tu simpatía es tan pedagógica! Y como la acompañas con un profundo conocimiento de lo que hablas, tu vídeo es imprescindible!! Me encanta Yeah I love this video
thanks for the tip... you make sense, not to mention you're funny too... i was able to do it just watching your video... love the video, it's helpful! thanks again!
I have seen many of your flute videos and they have been so helpful. I have watched tons of videos from various flutists/ flautists, many of which have been great, but I have to say that yours are totally my favorite! They have helped me with my personal playing, as well as my teaching. The way you explain the concepts of playing is so clear and easy to understand. I also love the product videos you post and how you describe the product as well as similarities and differences between other similar products (headjoints, flutes, etc). I always wish I could be in the videos trying them with you! Now, on-to this particular video… You almost made me pee my pants I was laughing so hard! 😂😂😂 I love the “how not to do vibrato” section. It was hilarious and helpful at the same time! Anyway, keep up the great content! I look forward to your next videos. And keep being you because you’re great! 😃 You don’t actually know me but if you did, we would best friends! 😊
Hey, thank you so much for the kind words! To be fair, this video is pretty old, so I have some new things to say about vibrato. Maybe another video in the future. :)
I have tried simply applying a sinusoidal-shaped volume limit/adjustment on some of the flute (and other woodwind) signals in some orchestra mixes that I have created in the past, and it does not sound as authentic as a real-time recording of a vibrato. I think the pulsating breath speeds- which change the velocity of the air going through the instrument- also change the tone slightly. I'm sure there are a couple other very fine technical details that come through with the mechanics of a woodwind vibrato, but I'd just like to at least include that observation for physic's sake.
Hello JustAnotherFlutist! I am flutist at university and I loved your video on vibrato! I thought it was charming and hilarious! Good for you for making instructional videos like this one. I was wondering if you could give an instructional video on how to do the percussive, airy type of articulation as done on Jasmine Choi's recording of the Paganini Caprice No. 24 at 3 minutes 10 seconds Paganini Caprice No.24 (arr. for solo flute) - Jasmine Choi and in Christina Jennings' recording of Rochberg's Caprice Variations at 3 minutes 31 seconds Christina Jennings Caprice Variations by Rochberg Thank you!
I taught my taught my self vibrato on accident in middle school when I was hold a note longer then my lungs supported then it made a waves sound and I thought it was good so I continued thinking I invented something new, thennn my friend called me out saying it's a vibrato I guess I practiced it after by say hah while breathing out then I did it to a flute I still laugh at this story today!
For me I am a intermediate flutist, it is hard for me. The way I think of it is playing a long note and see if the noise is shaking or note. JustAnotherFlutist
When I play in front of my class I get nervous like any normal musician, so I produce a vibrato sound and my teacher compliments me on it when in reality I'm just shaking
Hi! Although I like all the other videos I have seen on vibrato, this is the one that made it the easiest for me to learn. I wasn't trying to pulsate my stomach in and out as I tried to pulse 4 times per beat feeling like I was bumping up and down riding on horse rather than playing beautiful music even though it's very good advice what the other videos were showing. Thank you!
Exactly, flutists don't actually pump their abs for vibrato, they create gentle air-pulses through the throat. For some reason most don't want to admit they use their throats to create and control their vibrato.
Interesting take on this. I feel like it comes completely from the diaphragm, not the whole respiratory tract. When I start a section with slower vibrato I tend to let out some air through my nose which helps me control the vibrato speed.
I just feel in love with you. You are so cute and funny and obviously brilliant. You're young enough to be my daughter and I may have a few from my tour of duty on Okinawa while on active duty in the USMC but anyway that you keep demonstrating your kindness, modesty and generosity for putting out these videos free hopefully you'll achieve fame and fortune and I hope that you don't have some now HaShem will bless you with perfect children. Thank you for shining with such a beautiful warm light.
I had a similar experience with a person at a music store. We had brought in my flute (there was something wrong with the head and it was making it hard to play/tune). Anyway, my mom told her that we wanted them to clean it as well and she said that flutes don’t really need to be professionally cleaned, just clean at home. But then I watched a TH-cam video of a flute being professional cleaned at a music store so I’m really confused now. Do flutes or do flutes not need to be professionally cleaned?
I learned vibrato in 6th grade after playing for 2 years. I have only played in a band though, I have never had private lessons. My sectionals teacher kind of mentioned it and everyone else didn't get it but I've been doing it ever since! I think I'm doing it right! It doesn't sound like what you did when you used your mouth/throat! Anyways I don't play without it ever and I always do it kind of fast! Anyways I'm still the only one in varsity high school band that can do it... I'm a freshman... but there aren't very many of us...
Wooo, interesting! I know that when I want to make a super clean, soft attack, I let air through my nose to "get the air going" so I don't crack the note. I suppose it would be the same for vibrato! :D
I've been playing flute for EIGHT years and no one could explain this to me till now. This sounds horrible I know, but I was taught by a brass player with a flute book who barely could play flute. I learned a lot but never anything about this. Now I'm in college and still didn't understand but have been trying for a long time and all those I ask merely say they just did it. Others say you say ha but that didn't work right. Now that I feel like a musical moron I just have to say you explained that very well. Hopefully my new teacher, who is a string player, won't think of me as stupid.
This video helped me so much!! I have been bugging my section leader on how to play vibrato but he couldn't really help me considering that he developed it on his own so this video was really helpful and funny!!
OMG I’ve been playing vibrato for years unintentionally. I thought I just had a really weak diaphragm and sound. I always liked the sound it made but I thought I wasn’t doing it correctly.
Shop assistant: "Flutes don't need tuners."
"Umm, what's your name?"
Shop assistant: "My name is Amber. With a K."
Mohawk Gaymer maybe she went to Starbucks and they spelled her name with a k and she took it WAY to seriously 😂
So true
😂😂😂
"Flutes don't need tuners." When she acted out the salesgirl, I almost died laughing. I tune my flute almost every day -.-
Tuning the school band is a grueling process
Lilac Petal I always tune my flute generally I can do it without a tuner and it’s more or less accurate
LMAO SAME
Me and my fellow flutists just tuned 1 time and memorized the head joint placement so we can just adjust it to the same spot every day and be in tune :)
hey im hannah- You need to tune every day because the weather can affect how your flute tunes. Cold, it’s flat. Hot, it’s sharp. Memorizing where your head joint is, isn’t accurate.
"Flutes don't need tuners," employee at music store.
gosh.
Wow. Just wow.
Cleo Moseley ...
*facepalm*
Cleo Moseley cuz flutists all have perfect pitch
Cleo Moseley exactly...
You have a unique talent, you can entertain and teach at the same time.
You're so funny! I actually started doing vibrato by accident. I was always nervous when i was playing solos, so my whole body would start to shake and i would end up with an involuntary vibrato. One day my teacher asked me if i had learned vibrato and i didn't know what he was talking about. From then on i started doing it on purpose. But, based on your video, it looks like my vibrato is coming from the right part of my body--lucky for me it turned out that way!
omg I actually do the same thing. Everytime I have a solo, or a new solo suddenly handed to me I'll shake a lot and kinda have a vibrato sound to it. But tbh I want to actually learn vibrato the right way because I sound dumb lol
I played my first solo at a concert a couple months ago and I was so nervous. My breath was so shaky and I messed up so much. I asked a friend how bad I did and he said my vibrato was good. I was like whaaaatttt???? So I was so shaky, I was doing vibrato on accident😂
My vibrato comes naturally also. The first time I played a solo years ago, the judge commented on my beautiful vibrato. I didn't know what it was. It was actually anxiety, but I just learned to play that way.
all my auditions for musical curriculars had me so nervous that when i went to play the piece, the vibrato came from my shaking body 😭
I was interested in vibtrato on my flute, but I didn't understand how to it. one woman gave the suggesion: try to say "hahahaha" or "who who who" with flute. it works) My vibrato isn't very good, but I try)
The "too much vibrato", especially when it reaches quarter-tones, is actually a very beautiful technique that can be found in contemporary classical music. For example, if you listen to the second movement of Kaija Saariaho's "Aile du songe" (wing of the dream), it starts with that kind of vibrato over a high G.
Goats are cute
#potato
When you realize you've been accidentally playing vibrato for years...
Kass Collins Yup.. some people just have natural vibrato.
I can relate. Now I wish triple tounging came as easy. :/
Kass Collins same all the time I play vibrato I knew what vibrato is because I sing but I didn’t know you could do it on an instrument
Exactly
Kass Collins ikr
Flutes don't need tuners... *tries a piccolo
Lmao
Thank you so much for this! I'm a junior in my marching band and I was never taught this in elementary school, sadly. I have a solo part in my field show and they're asking me to use vibrato, which I barely have practice with. This helps me a lot!
Shelby Proud I have a solo that I need to learn vibrato for too!!
Shelby Proud I have a solo that I need to learn vibrato for too!!
agender.wolf.16 my teacher taught me how in elementary
I'm practicing and watching this at the same time and then I'll just start laughing so hard 😂 thanks for adding fun into practicing flute :)
I love this video! I love how to add a twist on your videos that gives it a bit of a humor element! I'm 14 and have been playing flute for 5 years. Thank you for these videos!
I'm 12 and have played for 4 (nearly 5 now) years.
Yes. Best line in the video. "Flutes don't need tuners". Complete with "the look". I love it!!!
I am probably old enough to be your grandfather, yet I am captivated by your knowledge and your sense of humor. I don't yet have a flute, but if ever I get one, I'll be back to follow your lessons. Love it!
I've played flute for almost 7 years (I'm about 16 now). I've moved to 3 different schools, had 5 different directors, and 3 extremely talented section leaders, and no one has ever thought to teach or mention vibrato to me. This video helped so much. Thanks!
ohemgee you're hilarious.. I not only watch ur videos for flute but also your humor :D
Wow, I'm a freshman and I'm trying to look for new ways to improve my vibrato and this has been the most helpful! Thank you so much! I can't wait to tell everyone else in my section
slow = diaphragm-generated vibrato. fast vibrato is from the larynx. The former is conscious. The latter is the autonomic nervous system. The former is positively controlled. The latter you have to just "think" what you want. Also, 2 aspects to vibrato: amplitude and frequency. Mix them for infinite variety.
Except, no flutist actually creates vibrato by pumping their abs five times/second. We witness their gently pulsating throats, not shirts and dresses fluttering like sails in the wind.
As a trombonist, I laugh manically with my infinite vibrato.
Music theory police dont jail me plz :P
I just happen to stumble upon you teaching video. It is informative and your sense of humor is an added bonus. I have always avoided Vibato. Now its time to give it a try per your instructions. Thanks!
my band teacher played this for my class and said don’t comment at the end so here I am commenting hi
I follow you on Curious!!! Here you are! Hahaha. I love your videos. I had 10 years formal training..and about 7 off...picked up a flute a month ago and I'm pleasantly surprised that it is much like riding a bike, in the sense that I didn't forget...but obviously I'm rusty ...your videos are helping me get back to the status I left off! Thanks so much.
I'm trying to learn vibrato for my senior year marching band show, Paradise Reclaimed, because my friend (who is the trumpet section leader) suggested I ad vibrato to the sustained note at the end of the solo. Thanks for this!
Hey, 2 years that im lonely trying to learn flute and this is the first real tutorial of vibrato i found. Thank you for sharing and for the joyful video =D
Love your channel. Glad I found you! I've played flute for a year now (self-taught) and videos like this are so helpful. Also you're just a nice and quirky person. Keep it up :)
Omg this was so helpful. I have been playing flute for 9 years and never learned. It wasnt until i started making flute videos for youtube that people told me i should add it. Thank you
love the "seasick" slapstick. really makes the point, too...
You are awesome and soo funny!! I just loved watching this, especially the end!!! I'm working on my vibrato at the moment and this lightened my mood so much, thank you!!!
Huh... I already knew how to vibrato without even knowing what it was... Strange...
+Eishiro Rakuya same haha
Eishiro Rakuya If you have naturally good tone then it comes naturally
U think u know but u probably aren't doing exactly right if u learned it urself
Thank you for this video! I am a freshman in high school in band with upperclassman and one of them told me I should learn how to use vibrato.
I'm a flutist and I'm in a band in school, one of my flute friends can do great at Vibrato, but all of us know how to do it, but than I watch your video and now I know what to do better. This video is great and you made it sound so easy to learn how to do Vibrato. Thanks. You're really funny too. :)
I laughed so much watching this video! Thanks!
You are a hoot!!! I played the flute in grade school and high school, and I could never achieve a vibrato......you made it look easy!!! I'm going to try this. Thanks for the pointers!!!
I love your humor... "Don't shoot me" that look was hilarious.
im gonna use this to my succes, I play the flute and this really helped
I was looking for several ways to describe how to do a vibrato properly/develop a good vibrato for my high school students, and this video gave me some new tips- thanks! Then again, having a good tone without vibrato, I think, is equally important, especially when practicing intonation :) Thank you for inspiring videos!
"Have you ever heard singers go like WaAaAaAaAaAa" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Haha, thank you! Got those earrings from a little stand that was about a 2-minute walk away from a rehearsal I was going to one day, HAHA! My guilty pleasure... :P
Flutes don't need tuners...... -______- lool
the "meaty flute" sound made me think of mario brothers theme music I legit laughed out loud
See also: Woodwind Vibrato from the Eighteenth Century to the Present. Performance Practice Review, 8(1), 67-72. www.academia.edu/1980355/Woodwind_Vibrato_from_the_Eighteenth_Century_to_the_Present._Performance_Practice_Review_8_1_67-72 AND El Vibrato de Viento-Madera desde el Siglo XVIII hasta Hoy. Quodlibet Revista de Especialización Musical (Madrid), 18, 37-42. www.academia.edu/1980356/El_Vibrato_de_Viento-Madera_desde_el_Siglo_XVIII_hasta_Hoy._Quodlibet_Revista_de_Especializaci%C3%B3n_Musical_Madrid_18_37-42
Love your videos! I've started teaching private lessons but sometimes I struggle with explaining things to students and your videos have been very helpful not to mention funny :) thanks for all that you do!
This is my first year and time playing the flute at my school and i now know that i was playing the vibrato this whole time 😂
I just wanted to let you know, this video helped me immensely to try and explain the basic concepts of vibrato to a room full of middle schoolers. thank you!!!!!
As Galway himself has correctly stated, "No one can train their diaphragm (abs) to do that (pulsate five times a second). Vibrato happens somewhere in the throat."
It had to be Guitar Center...
Haha, there's a lot more to vibrato than what I've covered in this video--this is just a very very preliminary overview because so many people were asking about it. ;) Glad I was of help, though!
Actually some singers use the vibrato made with the throat. Like Rihanna (Diamonds). It's very used in R'n'B, Jazz, sometimes in Pop music. We use it to make riffs for example - go to watch the videos of Natalie Wiess.
i find your videos highly funny
This helped me so much...Lol you're so funny. I've been looking for the right tutorial for like ever. I haven't been able to do vibrato for the 3 1/2 years that I've been playing and this helped a lot so thanks. :)
U were great! ur sense of humor kept me interested throughout the video,unlike other tutorials!
Very helpful. Thank-you. I hear it demonstrated by teachers up and down scales. Your flute sounds so lovely. Not airy at all. Great. Your a pro.☺
You're awesomely spectacular! Love the sense of humor! Just subscribed and I look forward to more videos!
I think there is a way to tune your flute, by adjusting the cork position in the head joint, you could use the tuner to see if you are too sharp or too flat, but it doesn't get tuned like a guitar. I guess you would only do this if the tuning rod does not help.
Great video on Vibrato! This is also how I was taught and a few method books discuss it in this matter. Your examples of how not to sound are great for any flutist to hear. Thanks for your comments on my Orchestral Excerpts by the way! This also make me feel better about my vibrato in the Debussy hehe
A couple exercises help to develop control of vibrato, by making the diaphragm and rib cage muscles more controllable:
1) powerfully open your lungs to their absolute maximum and hold that for 3 seconds (first using the diaphragm only, then with rib cage only, then using both).....follow this by first relaxing and taking a few breaths for a minute and then completely expelling all air from your lungs and holding them closed/empty for a few seconds (using diaphragm only, first, then with rib cage only, then using both), try doing those exercises 5x each, and then
2) breath as fast as you can pumping air in/out/in/out back and forth as fast as you can. You can do this just using a little air to exchange in and out, or pumping 1/2 a lung-full of air in and out. These two exercises will wake up a sense of control of the nerves and muscles of the diaphragm and rib cage and when it comes time to do a vibrato, your control, your feel for it, should be more readily available. Oh, and flutes don't need tuners? That's right, I only buy records and go to concerts of bands that never tune any of their instruments. Good times in music stores!
NOTE: the #1 exercise above, if you haven't been doing things like that or aren't a regular wind instrument player already, may give you a little temporary and normal post-exercise tightness or soreness in the lower abdomen or rib cage for a couple days if you're not used to such actions already (a contraction of muscles in one direction includes stretching muscles in the other direction), and this is a normal result of starting new muscle actions and including a little fast-twitch action exercises. The soreness and tightness go away after a couple days, as you know, but I wanted to remind people of this so that if you currently scheduling a performance, NOT to start new exercises of this type within 4 days before that public performance. Start after, so you've worked through that 2 days of possible soreness and tightness and your next performance isn't impacted EXCEPT by the great improvement in your lung control these exercises may give!
OMG! You are awesome girl! I learned new things and LMAO!!! Thanks for being so entertaining!
A great teaching video - and made me smile all the way through. At 6.03 when you feel sick and fall over, I'd love to see a two-second clip inserted of you throwing up into a bucket.
Makes perfect sense. But.... how do you get rid of natural vibrato?
Tu simpatía es tan pedagógica!
Y como la acompañas con un profundo conocimiento de lo que hablas, tu vídeo es imprescindible!! Me encanta
Yeah I love this video
thanks for the tip... you make sense, not to mention you're funny too... i was able to do it just watching your video... love the video, it's helpful! thanks again!
Thank you! The use of the metronome was so useful.
When it said "Sing your fav. Song", AND IIIIIII WILLL ALWAYS LOVE YOUUUU!
I have seen many of your flute videos and they have been so helpful. I have watched tons of videos from various flutists/ flautists, many of which have been great, but I have to say that yours are totally my favorite! They have helped me with my personal playing, as well as my teaching. The way you explain the concepts of playing is so clear and easy to understand. I also love the product videos you post and how you describe the product as well as similarities and differences between other similar products (headjoints, flutes, etc). I always wish I could be in the videos trying them with you!
Now, on-to this particular video… You almost made me pee my pants I was laughing so hard! 😂😂😂 I love the “how not to do vibrato” section. It was hilarious and helpful at the same time!
Anyway, keep up the great content! I look forward to your next videos. And keep being you because you’re great! 😃
You don’t actually know me but if you did, we would best friends! 😊
Hey, thank you so much for the kind words! To be fair, this video is pretty old, so I have some new things to say about vibrato. Maybe another video in the future. :)
You are a fantastic teacher with a cute sense of humour . God bless you !
I have tried simply applying a sinusoidal-shaped volume limit/adjustment on some of the flute (and other woodwind) signals in some orchestra mixes that I have created in the past, and it does not sound as authentic as a real-time recording of a vibrato. I think the pulsating breath speeds- which change the velocity of the air going through the instrument- also change the tone slightly. I'm sure there are a couple other very fine technical details that come through with the mechanics of a woodwind vibrato, but I'd just like to at least include that observation for physic's sake.
Hello JustAnotherFlutist! I am flutist at university and I loved your video on vibrato! I thought it was charming and hilarious! Good for you for making instructional videos like this one. I was wondering if you could give an instructional video on how to do the percussive, airy type of articulation as done on Jasmine Choi's recording of the Paganini Caprice No. 24 at 3 minutes 10 seconds Paganini Caprice No.24 (arr. for solo flute) - Jasmine Choi and in Christina Jennings' recording of Rochberg's Caprice Variations at 3 minutes 31 seconds Christina Jennings Caprice Variations by Rochberg
Thank you!
Thank you! I can't promise covers though, but I will keep it in mind! :)
FINALLY SOMEONE WHO CAN TEACH IT WITH MY UNDERSTANDING!!!! THANKS SO MUCH!!!! :D
"Sounding Like A Sheep" Ha, Ha, just about fell off my chair !
I taught my taught my self vibrato on accident in middle school when I was hold a note longer then my lungs supported then it made a waves sound and I thought it was good so I continued thinking I invented something new, thennn my friend called me out saying it's a vibrato I guess I practiced it after by say hah while breathing out then I did it to a flute I still laugh at this story today!
Omg thank you sooo soo much!!! My vabrito isnt perfect but i can still manage to play it!!! Still working on it thought but thank soo much again!!!
For me I am a intermediate flutist, it is hard for me. The way I think of it is playing a long note and see if the noise is shaking or note. JustAnotherFlutist
Excellent way to start on Vibrato. Good tips.
When I play in front of my class I get nervous like any normal musician, so I produce a vibrato sound and my teacher compliments me on it when in reality I'm just shaking
And I thought violin vibrato was tough
Yea buddy 😂 flutes are way harder 👌
Granted, this video doesn't explain EVERYTHING about vibrato. That would take... many more videos, haha. But I'm glad I was of help! :)
I wonder if it might be better to focus on the diaphragm initially for beginners? that's what pushes the air out, or am I missing something??
Try practicing it the way I showed in the vid! I did it this way, and I was able to "relearn" it too! :D
Hi! Although I like all the other videos I have seen on vibrato, this is the one that made it the easiest for me to learn. I wasn't trying to pulsate my stomach in and out as I tried to pulse 4 times per beat feeling like I was bumping up and down riding on horse rather than playing beautiful music even though it's very good advice what the other videos were showing. Thank you!
Exactly, flutists don't actually pump their abs for vibrato, they create gentle air-pulses through the throat. For some reason most don't want to admit they use their throats to create and control their vibrato.
You make flute playing fun to learn. This one made me laugh. I love your energy.
I’m not sure if this is on the internet but Dr. Gary Garner’s vibrato exercises are incredible!
Interesting take on this. I feel like it comes completely from the diaphragm, not the whole respiratory tract. When I start a section with slower vibrato I tend to let out some air through my nose which helps me control the vibrato speed.
LOLOLOLOL easily the funniest video of yours I've seen yet. Brilliant!
Uh! Finally learned Vibrato!! I just cannot keep for so long, and unluckly me band teacher gave me a song to hold for 8 beats... 😭
Really you have told one of the best method to use of Vibrato in flute.. Thanks for.
"Flutes don't need tuners?" WHAT?!?!
I just feel in love with you. You are so cute and funny and obviously brilliant. You're young enough to be my daughter and I may have a few from my tour of duty on Okinawa while on active duty in the USMC but anyway that you keep demonstrating your kindness, modesty and generosity for putting out these videos free hopefully you'll achieve fame and fortune and I hope that you don't have some now HaShem will bless you with perfect children. Thank you for shining with such a beautiful warm light.
I had a similar experience with a person at a music store. We had brought in my flute (there was something wrong with the head and it was making it hard to play/tune). Anyway, my mom told her that we wanted them to clean it as well and she said that flutes don’t really need to be professionally cleaned, just clean at home. But then I watched a TH-cam video of a flute being professional cleaned at a music store so I’m really confused now. Do flutes or do flutes not need to be professionally cleaned?
Your flute tips are awesome and I must say that they really help my much more than the "guidance" of my so called "teacher"! Thumbs up, babe! :)
I learned vibrato in 6th grade after playing for 2 years. I have only played in a band though, I have never had private lessons. My sectionals teacher kind of mentioned it and everyone else didn't get it but I've been doing it ever since! I think I'm doing it right! It doesn't sound like what you did when you used your mouth/throat! Anyways I don't play without it ever and I always do it kind of fast! Anyways I'm still the only one in varsity high school band that can do it... I'm a freshman... but there aren't very many of us...
I weirdly, learned vibrato on my own in sixth grade, and I started playing with my band teacher who plays professionally
Wooo, interesting! I know that when I want to make a super clean, soft attack, I let air through my nose to "get the air going" so I don't crack the note. I suppose it would be the same for vibrato! :D
I've been playing flute for EIGHT years and no one could explain this to me till now. This sounds horrible I know, but I was taught by a brass player with a flute book who barely could play flute. I learned a lot but never anything about this. Now I'm in college and still didn't understand but have been trying for a long time and all those I ask merely say they just did it. Others say you say ha but that didn't work right. Now that I feel like a musical moron I just have to say you explained that very well. Hopefully my new teacher, who is a string player, won't think of me as stupid.
Added to my list of upcoming videos... :)
This video helped me so much!! I have been bugging my section leader on how to play vibrato but he couldn't really help me considering that he developed it on his own so this video was really helpful and funny!!
My flute teacher always tells me to open my throat, like I'm yawning, and add the pulses.
OMG I’ve been playing vibrato for years unintentionally. I thought I just had a really weak diaphragm and sound. I always liked the sound it made but I thought I wasn’t doing it correctly.
Even my flute teacher couldn't teach me this as well as you did!
Thanks (now I can pass my next song)! :)
So happy. ^.^
You're cool too!!