The Flute Practice just back again to thank you for this. I just showed somebody else and to see their face and hear their breakthrough was just fantastic. They are coming here soon. 🙏❤️🙏
Great! This is quite a common problem so you are not alone! Many who begin the flute again start off with too much tension...often because they are also frustrated that it is not happening as easily as they remember...but patience and the tone will come again :) good luck!
I'm a beginner and really been struggling with consistent 2nd octave notes - forget trying anything higher! But I watched, copied and there they all were, 3 octaves of G! Thank you so much!
I’m a cellist but also a classically trained vocalist and I found that as I’ve been helping my son during his flute practice (he’s only just started), I would try to play the flute myself and what you’ve said in this video were things I naturally experimented with because of my voice training! This is so fascinating to me. I am so grateful for your videos!!! You explain everything so well. Thank you!
I'm a professional singer, and I'm gratified that what I do when singing (i.e., support, open throat, relaxed mouth) all work when playing the flute as well! I liked your comment about opera singers. What they are doing on high notes is opening the throat, increasing support, and bringing the tone even further forward in the mouth (and into the sinuses). Sound familiar? Love your videos!
Thank you for making this video, I had been looking through many videos looking at tone and easier ways to produce high notes and yours helped me the most. I've been practicing a lot for a high part I was assigned to play for MPA, but I sounded really sharp and strained and your video helped fix that. There was a comment about piccolo below, and I hope you do make a video on it. It'd really help! I hope you continue making this videos! :)
*Ahem* For those of us not learning with an instructor (i.e. self-teaching via videos/books/etc), here's a really helpful tip on reaching those third register notes... remember that the fingerings change. Yeah, I'm letting you in on my egg-faced shame here... boy was I struggling for that third register E only to find out after beating my head against that proverbial wall for about 20 minutes... the fingerings change. When you do the correct thing on the flute and follow this awesome video - WOW - there's a high note. But... you know... first things first. -_- :D
From my experience I do what you say...loosen up and relax. I find I get a better tone through the way I breath and from where I let my breath flow from. I open my throat. The air comes from just below the back of my throat. Below my Adam's apple. If I have to for instance triple tongue then it's coming from my the centre on my mouth....just slightly back of the tip of my tongue. But if I had to give advise I would say the key to getting CONTROL of the sound quality is breathing and a strong diaphragm....strong tummy muscles...and a good lip position. Great vid. Love it. 😊😊😊😊😊
Although this video is quite old I just wanna comment that out of ALL the videos I've watched about high notes yours was the most effective one!! Before watching I couldn't reach second octave C and after watching I picked up my flute, applied what I learned from you then BAM INSTANT MAGIC! Thank u so much!
Can you achieve softer (less loud) higher notes using this same method as well? Or do you have to roll the embouchure in more? I realise though that rolling in the embouchure can change the pitch though which probably isn't the preferred method. Higher notes are naturally more sharper correct? What I want to do is eventually make them softer. I haven't studied dynamics yet, which might be related. I've only played the flute for 2 months now.
Started flute a few weeks ago. I couldn’t get consistent high notes. I watched this video and used your techniques. Within 30 seconds, I could play high register notes as I wish. Thank you very much.
I've been away from the flute for about 6 years and now that I'm playing again, I was so frustrated because I couldn't produce B3 and C4 anymore and the remaining 3rd octave notes were airy and ugly. Your tips made instant effect, I found the placing for these high notes again. Thank you sooo much for this video, it helped me tons!!!
I tried blowing air up my nose and fogging my glasses up. Of course I did not get a sound. I went back to regular flute playing and it improved my tone! Definitely will relax your lips. That's the first thing I do now as a warmup before I play is to blow air up my nose and fog my glasses. Thanks for the excellent instruction!!
As a very mature beginner flute player, This is very useful. I have had years of classic voice training. A lot of the same principles apply to singing high notes. Jeanne
Btw this video helped me soo much. I've im in 3rd year off flute and i've been playing high notes wrong. They sound much better and are much easier to play now! Thank you so much
I’ve been binging your videos over this quarantine. I’m in my senior year and I’m trying to improve (not only because I want first chair for pride reasons lol, but because it’ll help in college as I’m going for music education), and my tone has improved greatly in just two weeks of your advice! I honestly recommend these videos for beginners, advanced players, anyone who wants to improve!
OMG! Thank you for these tips. On my own I have been struggling to hit a clean higher C, etc. Your tips got me there immediately : ) Hitting the F while visualizing the Hot Potato in my throat is brilliant. A clean high F on the first blow- Love you girlie🎉 Your program is remarkable. Thank you.
I am Laughing right now….So Hard I am That Crazy person …I just Started College Band And I wanted to play flute so bad ! I come from the Brass family , Tuba and Trombone and I Literally Blew My lungs out for 3 Days 😭
I tell you what...if you ever want a second skill or another way to perform you should be a comedian. I think youd be pretty fab. I do really. Great vid too. 😊😊😊😊
Being dehydrated certainly doesn't help either. I'm not saying it's going to negatively affect things, but I'm saying it's definitely not going to help.
Thank you. I play the flute and I am out of practice. I bought a new azumi open hole and need help playing higher register so this is a very lovely video
This is a really good video. Thanks. I'm just working on that. It' s getting better now. I'm a restarter after 22 yeaes of not playing at all and yes I also wanted to force it in the beginning. My son now says it sounds much better what I' m doing now and not so squeeky anymore. But I' m still struggling with Intonation in the third octave and also with playing those notes in pianissimo...... But probably just takes time. It's just 4 months that I resarted. I want to mich at once. Luckily I have a teacher who helps me very much
Rolling my lips.the way Tatiana showed, and it felt like the air was this tiny fragile perfectly round little glass ball rolling up and down as I moved my lips. I dunno if that was right but it felt good😊
good morning here is from Brazil I want to say that you are congratulating I am watching several videos of you I didn't understand the question of breathing and how to put the lips can you make a video trying to teach in another way? like that videos of crazy things to play!
I just learned to play the second octave cleanly like two days ago after struggling for over a week. It may have been harder for me because I'm teaching myself, and I have tmj, so my jaw can get super tense when I experiment with embouchure changes. I found there were two tricks that worked for me. The first trick is, make sure your headjoint is positioned so that the hole in your A key is lined up with the hole in the headjoint. It might sound unimportant, but this actually did matter for me. When I rolled my headjoint out, suddenly my higher notes became unplayable. Now, purse your lips a bit so that your embouchure feels just about big enough to hold a pencil in your lips. Your lips shouldn't be super tense. You don't need an embouchure small enough to hold a grain of rice, just a pencil. The second trick is, rather than blowing like a madman, move your tongue forward a little bit towards the aperture formed by your lips. This automatically speeds up the air coming through the embouchure in exactly the same way that putting your thumb over the end of a garden hose makes the water come out faster. That's all there was to it for me. Using this trick, I've found I can blow softly to get a quiet second octave and harder to get a louder one. The tongue thing works in my third octave too. For some reason, figuring out the second octave was much much harder for me than the third octave.
I struggled in the high register for so long time, it always goes too sharp in my most relaxed way to blow. But if I control it, I’m so tired and not loud. How can I fix this problem?
The second confusing thing is that you say bring jaw and lips forward while playing high notes but the tendency of high notes is to sound sharp when we bring jaw forward the pitch will not go upper more??
Great video! I will remember the hot potatoe and the image of you singing like an opera singer to explain 'going low to hit high'. Thank you very much for the kind lesson.
Really good! The part about keeping lips closed and then letting a little air escape. Popped my first G octave and have not even finished the video. (and I have looked at more than one of these high note vids)
I've just begun playing again (after a 40 year hiatus!) and have been struggling with the higher register and tone. This video is a game changer for me! I was so excited when I finally "got it" and the notes rolled out beautifully. Thank you so much for these great tips!
I think I have been overpracticing because I’ve developed a beautiful tone but I’ve been practicing multiple hours a day and my tone doesn’t seem as pretty/good anymore :/
Hi and thanks for all you do! I'm an older "flute doubler" recently drafted into teaching beginners and found the need to quickly improve my "classical-sounding" third-octave playing instead of my usual casual-jazz-guy approach. Succeeding in improving those high notes up to "C" I seem to have messed up my lower and middle-range embouchure, getting only whistling-air sounds sometimes trying to play notes between first and second G, so frustrating! Now trying to practice LESS 3rd octave to regain lower notes, is this a common problem and is it dangerous practicing TOO MANY high notes?
I have had the same problem! Unfortunately the issue might be a lack of flexibility in your baseline embouchure technique where you tighten and stretch your lips to achieve higher octaves instead of rolling the airstream higher without stretching your lips tight. The embouchure should be relaxed and coming from a person who has yet to fully learn to relax my embouchure, that's easier said than done as we are fighting years of muscle memory. The mind boggling and hard work pay off though! Good luck!
This was a great exercise ... it worked!! Have to keep practicing this technique so it becomes automatic. High notes have always been a challenge and your explanation of why that is, helped greatly.
I found something interesting while trying to get high notes: Provided there's also air support, I've been able to jump octaves by aiming the air stream down by pulling the jaw back (basically exaggerated overbite lol). Is there a reason to prefer aiming the air stream up rather than down?
Such a good question. Are you speaking about the 3rd register? I also had this revelation a while back. When you play in the third register with reasonably loud sound (fast air) you will actually start angling the air down again. Dropping the jaw is also always good for opening full sound and keeping the pitch down. But It comes down to balancing the angle and speed of air in all the registers. This (th-cam.com/video/2-pUCSOhuac/w-d-xo.html) explains it a bit more.
Just realised this octave exists during this vid, and your tip about the middle of the lips and rolling upwards made it really simple. Now, if I could only learn to roll my r's I'd be a happy chappy. That bein' said, after two decades of tryin' methinks I may just never get the knack tbh.
I have a student who's really struggling with the middle octaves. Everything I've tried just doesn't help her. This helps me a lot personally, so excited to experiment this with her 😄
thank you, this video was very interesting and useful even though i already knew how to play high notes. could you please make a video about the piccolo please? i mean how to be confident when you play it, how to play high notes with it and how to make a piano without losing the sound. i would really apreciate it
Lips combine with jaw combined with breath combined with back throat and much more. I tried what you say and I can feel the difference. A larger picture than I ever knew. Thank you.
Your technique works well for me up through high A. But I have trouble getting an easy sounding high B-flat. By squeezing a smile, I can get a loud or shrill high B-flat, but not by using a relaxed embouchure and throat. Any suggestions?
Worked for me! Thanks! I borrowed a flute in high school for a week. With no instruction but a book that barely taught the basics of posture and hand positions for 4 instruments, I managed to not only get the 2nd octave, but play the Lover's Waltz a couple times before getting winded. Now in my 30s I bought a Yamaha 222 and hadn't managed to get the 2nd octave after all!
My third octave E is registering as B flat E, B flat E, it won't stabilize. My third octave F is doing the same thing: F A, F A. What am I doing wrong.
You are simply amazing!!! Today I was struggling doing the exercise 10 of Gariboldi 58 etudes in switching notes. This is exactly what I would have needed!! Tomorrow im gonna try !
Hi Tatiana! Thank you for the video! I have a question: I feel like when I am rolling my lips forward, my throat closes and I can't do that "hot potatoe" exercise. Do you have an advice?
This video is just what i needed to move on from the middel D. :D Your channel are my go to. I am self taught, and started about 3 weeks ago. :D Also a patreon. You do amazing work with the channel. :D
Great vid! Got it straight away afetr seeing yours and a couple others, I even went OMG I've just got it finally HAHA. So generous of people to freely share their knowledge. Thank you so much.
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This helped so much, my cat is much more happy. The lip roll and forward pout are so subtle, lots to play with thanks.
Glad to hear it! Yes it is very subtle but there is so much possibility in it :) Enjoy and good luck experimenting and playing !
The Flute Practice just back again to thank you for this. I just showed somebody else and to see their face and hear their breakthrough was just fantastic. They are coming here soon. 🙏❤️🙏
It's weird how as a kid I was able to hit the high notes with no trouble but now I'm struggling after re-learning... this video was really helpful
Great! This is quite a common problem so you are not alone! Many who begin the flute again start off with too much tension...often because they are also frustrated that it is not happening as easily as they remember...but patience and the tone will come again :) good luck!
How is it going now? Do you have an update?
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I'm just starting to learn flute at the age of 65 and I've found your instruction very helpful and fun.
That is a great time to start -- the prime of your life! I took my first flute lesson at age 69. I am now 77 and doing great.
I'm 52. Got my flute for my Christmas present 30 years ago. Getting used to it.
Commenting on your comment from 2 yrs ago. I am 69 and just started my second year. Thank you so much for the motivation. @@daviddiamond2415
I'm a beginner and really been struggling with consistent 2nd octave notes - forget trying anything higher! But I watched, copied and there they all were, 3 octaves of G! Thank you so much!
I’m a cellist but also a classically trained vocalist and I found that as I’ve been helping my son during his flute practice (he’s only just started), I would try to play the flute myself and what you’ve said in this video were things I naturally experimented with because of my voice training! This is so fascinating to me. I am so grateful for your videos!!! You explain everything so well. Thank you!
I'm a professional singer, and I'm gratified that what I do when singing (i.e., support, open throat, relaxed mouth) all work when playing the flute as well! I liked your comment about opera singers. What they are doing on high notes is opening the throat, increasing support, and bringing the tone even further forward in the mouth (and into the sinuses). Sound familiar? Love your videos!
I’m 36 and just starting to learn the flute. Your videos have been an amazing resource. Thank you so much!
I got scared when you did the HAAAAAAAAAAAH sound
Thank you for making this video, I had been looking through many videos looking at tone and easier ways to produce high notes and yours helped me the most. I've been practicing a lot for a high part I was assigned to play for MPA, but I sounded really sharp and strained and your video helped fix that. There was a comment about piccolo below, and I hope you do make a video on it. It'd really help! I hope you continue making this videos! :)
Thank you for this comment and I am SOOOO glad to hear that it helped. I am going to get my piccolo out this week I think and get going :D
Thanks this video helped so much l like how you explained it
This is the part I'm having the most trouble with, but I'm going to work on it until I get it right!
*Ahem* For those of us not learning with an instructor (i.e. self-teaching via videos/books/etc), here's a really helpful tip on reaching those third register notes... remember that the fingerings change. Yeah, I'm letting you in on my egg-faced shame here... boy was I struggling for that third register E only to find out after beating my head against that proverbial wall for about 20 minutes... the fingerings change. When you do the correct thing on the flute and follow this awesome video - WOW - there's a high note. But... you know... first things first. -_- :D
From my experience I do what you say...loosen up and relax. I find I get a better tone through the way I breath and from where I let my breath flow from. I open my throat. The air comes from just below the back of my throat. Below my Adam's apple. If I have to for instance triple tongue then it's coming from my the centre on my mouth....just slightly back of the tip of my tongue. But if I had to give advise I would say the key to getting CONTROL of the sound quality is breathing and a strong diaphragm....strong tummy muscles...and a good lip position. Great vid. Love it. 😊😊😊😊😊
Although this video is quite old I just wanna comment that out of ALL the videos I've watched about high notes yours was the most effective one!! Before watching I couldn't reach second octave C and after watching I picked up my flute, applied what I learned from you then BAM INSTANT MAGIC! Thank u so much!
Can you achieve softer (less loud) higher notes using this same method as well? Or do you have to roll the embouchure in more? I realise though that rolling in the embouchure can change the pitch though which probably isn't the preferred method. Higher notes are naturally more sharper correct? What I want to do is eventually make them softer. I haven't studied dynamics yet, which might be related. I've only played the flute for 2 months now.
Started flute a few weeks ago. I couldn’t get consistent high notes. I watched this video and used your techniques. Within 30 seconds, I could play high register notes as I wish. Thank you very much.
I've been away from the flute for about 6 years and now that I'm playing again, I was so frustrated because I couldn't produce B3 and C4 anymore and the remaining 3rd octave notes were airy and ugly. Your tips made instant effect, I found the placing for these high notes again. Thank you sooo much for this video, it helped me tons!!!
I tried blowing air up my nose and fogging my glasses up. Of course I did not get a sound. I went back to regular flute playing and it improved my tone! Definitely will relax your lips. That's the first thing I do now as a warmup before I play is to blow air up my nose and fog my glasses. Thanks for the excellent instruction!!
Great tips!! I was able to reach the second octave B which I've been struggling with for a while. Thank you!!
OMG! It works perfectly. I'm all smiles after being able to get the high notes easily without much stress following your tips. Thank you soooo much :)
I have looked at youtube after youtube to help me with my high notes. Your instruction was not any others and it helped so much!! Thank you.
Thank you tatiana! At 6:50 lips and chin shifting air direction down and gradually up... first time seeing this!!!!! Can’t wait to try this!!!😊❤️👍‼️
As a very mature beginner flute player, This is very useful.
I have had years of classic voice training. A lot of the same principles apply to
singing high notes.
Jeanne
I love your organic approach to sound production , it makes so much more sense to me!
Btw this video helped me soo much. I've im in 3rd year off flute and i've been playing high notes wrong. They sound much better and are much easier to play now! Thank you so much
So glad to hear it :)
I’ve been binging your videos over this quarantine. I’m in my senior year and I’m trying to improve (not only because I want first chair for pride reasons lol, but because it’ll help in college as I’m going for music education), and my tone has improved greatly in just two weeks of your advice! I honestly recommend these videos for beginners, advanced players, anyone who wants to improve!
OMG! Thank you for these tips. On my own I have been struggling to hit a clean higher C, etc. Your tips got me there immediately : ) Hitting the F while visualizing the Hot Potato in my throat is brilliant. A clean high F on the first blow- Love you girlie🎉 Your program is remarkable. Thank you.
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I love your style
I am Laughing right now….So Hard I am That Crazy person …I just Started College Band And I wanted to play flute so bad ! I come from the Brass family , Tuba and Trombone and I Literally Blew My lungs out for 3 Days 😭
I tell you what...if you ever want a second skill or another way to perform you should be a comedian. I think youd be pretty fab. I do really. Great vid too. 😊😊😊😊
Being dehydrated certainly doesn't help either. I'm not saying it's going to negatively affect things, but I'm saying it's definitely not going to help.
moving the jaw forward is what helped me reach the high octave in the end. great tip! i was hitting the high octave by the end of the video!!
Thank you. I play the flute and I am out of practice. I bought a new azumi open hole and need help playing higher register so this is a very lovely video
This is a really good video. Thanks. I'm just working on that. It' s getting better now. I'm a restarter after 22 yeaes of not playing at all and yes I also wanted to force it in the beginning. My son now says it sounds much better what I' m doing now and not so squeeky anymore. But I' m still struggling with Intonation in the third octave and also with playing those notes in pianissimo...... But probably just takes time. It's just 4 months that I resarted. I want to mich at once. Luckily I have a teacher who helps me very much
Rolling my lips.the way Tatiana showed, and it felt like the air was this tiny fragile perfectly round little glass ball rolling up and down as I moved my lips. I dunno if that was right but it felt good😊
good morning here is from Brazil
I want to say that you are congratulating I am watching several videos of you
I didn't understand the question of breathing and how to put the lips
can you make a video trying to teach in another way? like that videos of crazy things to play!
Thanks a lot. It is very helpful for me ❤
I just learned to play the second octave cleanly like two days ago after struggling for over a week. It may have been harder for me because I'm teaching myself, and I have tmj, so my jaw can get super tense when I experiment with embouchure changes. I found there were two tricks that worked for me. The first trick is, make sure your headjoint is positioned so that the hole in your A key is lined up with the hole in the headjoint. It might sound unimportant, but this actually did matter for me. When I rolled my headjoint out, suddenly my higher notes became unplayable. Now, purse your lips a bit so that your embouchure feels just about big enough to hold a pencil in your lips. Your lips shouldn't be super tense. You don't need an embouchure small enough to hold a grain of rice, just a pencil. The second trick is, rather than blowing like a madman, move your tongue forward a little bit towards the aperture formed by your lips. This automatically speeds up the air coming through the embouchure in exactly the same way that putting your thumb over the end of a garden hose makes the water come out faster. That's all there was to it for me. Using this trick, I've found I can blow softly to get a quiet second octave and harder to get a louder one. The tongue thing works in my third octave too. For some reason, figuring out the second octave was much much harder for me than the third octave.
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Verry frustrating the "support"thing.trying .not easy.
Very good lesson.thank you.
I struggled in the high register for so long time, it always goes too sharp in my most relaxed way to blow. But if I control it, I’m so tired and not loud. How can I fix this problem?
Thank You very much Dear Tatiana, You are a flute wizard :-) Your videos are sooooooo good!
Thank you!
The second confusing thing is that you say bring jaw and lips forward while playing high notes but the tendency of high notes is to sound sharp when we bring jaw forward the pitch will not go upper more??
Thank you for the fabulous tips. You have helped me improve greatly this summer!
So great to hear! I hope you can continue to grow and learn here :)
The lesson was very helpful! I'm learning to play an indian flute (Bansuri), but blowing technics are the same. Thank you!
Thank you! Useful to know that it is similar :)
This is so helpful. I admit I started laughing when I was trying to do the HAs though... my laugh muscles got engaged!
1:28 Galway....
this is why he has a horrible tone
Great video! I will remember the hot potatoe and the image of you singing like an opera singer to explain 'going low to hit high'. Thank you very much for the kind lesson.
Really good! The part about keeping lips closed and then letting a little air escape. Popped my first G octave and have not even finished the video. (and I have looked at more than one of these high note vids)
Can you please do a video like this for low notes!? Im havings tons of trouble playing low c, below the staff. I'm in my 3rd year of flute playing
This is exactly what I needed! Thank you!
is there any reason that a 3rd octave E is much harder to get that a 3rd octave C,C#,D D# and F ?
Thank you so much!! I was in urgent need of learning high notes FAST and you just helped fix my problem completely ❤
Yay!!!! So glad it helped!!!
Thank you so much, very helpful tips.
Pleasure!
Really appreciate . Thanks. Ive benn struggling with high notes. are there any lip strength excercises
thank you so much for all your videos so helpful and I like you style
Thank you :)
Really appreciate these tips - just starting out and this has been so helpful have improved consistency in high notes over last 24 hours
Feels magical. Your tips made everything just work. Thank you so much!
I've just begun playing again (after a 40 year hiatus!) and have been struggling with the higher register and tone. This video is a game changer for me! I was so excited when I finally "got it" and the notes rolled out beautifully. Thank you so much for these great tips!
Wooooohooooo! These are my favorite types of comments! Welcome back to the flute! So excited you are picking it up again 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼🎶🎶🎶💕💕💕
I think I have been overpracticing because I’ve developed a beautiful tone but I’ve been practicing multiple hours a day and my tone doesn’t seem as pretty/good anymore :/
T Series ur embouchure that’s the problem, ur lips get to numb
Im in ameb grade six and I’m still struggling with this tysm
Hi and thanks for all you do! I'm an older "flute doubler" recently drafted into teaching beginners and found the need to quickly
improve my "classical-sounding" third-octave playing instead of my usual casual-jazz-guy approach. Succeeding in improving
those high notes up to "C" I seem to have messed up my lower and middle-range embouchure, getting only whistling-air sounds
sometimes trying to play notes between first and second G, so frustrating! Now trying to practice LESS 3rd octave to regain lower
notes, is this a common problem and is it dangerous practicing TOO MANY high notes?
I have had the same problem! Unfortunately the issue might be a lack of flexibility in your baseline embouchure technique where you tighten and stretch your lips to achieve higher octaves instead of rolling the airstream higher without stretching your lips tight. The embouchure should be relaxed and coming from a person who has yet to fully learn to relax my embouchure, that's easier said than done as we are fighting years of muscle memory. The mind boggling and hard work pay off though! Good luck!
Very helpful tips!
Really helpful, beautifully explained.
hello. can you please show us the fingering for the third octave? i wanna play a song by ear but it contains high notes... chaminade concertino :(
I will try do this I the next few days and upload as soon as possible!
The Flute Practice thank youu ❤😘
Video is up :D
You wanna Play the Chaminade Concertino by ear? Wow... that's quite a difficult piece
it works! thanks 💕
Great tips thank you. I really liked your comments that practice should be about testing boundries too
Thank you and yes, it really changed my practicing when I first heard about this idea :)
thank you sssooommuch! This really made some difference for my high notes!
This was a great exercise ... it worked!! Have to keep practicing this technique so it becomes automatic. High notes have always been a challenge and your explanation of why that is, helped greatly.
Wonderful! Doing a happy dance for you! That is fantastic 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I found something interesting while trying to get high notes: Provided there's also air support, I've been able to jump octaves by aiming the air stream down by pulling the jaw back (basically exaggerated overbite lol). Is there a reason to prefer aiming the air stream up rather than down?
Such a good question. Are you speaking about the 3rd register?
I also had this revelation a while back. When you play in the third register with reasonably loud sound (fast air) you will actually start angling the air down again. Dropping the jaw is also always good for opening full sound and keeping the pitch down. But It comes down to balancing the angle and speed of air in all the registers. This (th-cam.com/video/2-pUCSOhuac/w-d-xo.html) explains it a bit more.
Omg this is so helpful! Thank you~~
Just realised this octave exists during this vid, and your tip about the middle of the lips and rolling upwards made it really simple.
Now, if I could only learn to roll my r's I'd be a happy chappy. That bein' said, after two decades of tryin' methinks I may just never get the knack tbh.
Yay! That is wonderful! 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
I wish you are my flute teacher!
Thank you so much! I haven't played in 40 years and started to play again and those high notes, oy! You really helped! :)
was she biting her flute in the intro lol
Useful side view to see the lips in motion
Hi
Very very beautiful❤
I have a student who's really struggling with the middle octaves. Everything I've tried just doesn't help her. This helps me a lot personally, so excited to experiment this with her 😄
im probably that student to my teacher lmao.
Good wishes Thanks
Do you use facebook or instagram? I would love to add you as you play so well just love that way
Siddharth Thakur hi I know this is late and you may of found it out already, but her insta and other social media accounts are in her description box.
thank you, this video was very interesting and useful even though i already knew how to play high notes. could you please make a video about the piccolo please? i mean how to be confident when you play it, how to play high notes with it and how to make a piano without losing the sound. i would really apreciate it
Thank you! That is a wonderful idea. I need to get my picc going again so I will start planning a video on this soon :)
That flutter intro was siiiiickkk
Lips combine with jaw combined with breath combined with back throat and much more. I tried what you say and I can feel the difference. A larger picture than I ever knew. Thank you.
Your technique works well for me up through high A. But I have trouble getting an easy sounding high B-flat. By squeezing a smile, I can get a loud or shrill high B-flat, but not by using a relaxed embouchure and throat. Any suggestions?
Worked for me! Thanks!
I borrowed a flute in high school for a week. With no instruction but a book that barely taught the basics of posture and hand positions for 4 instruments, I managed to not only get the 2nd octave, but play the Lover's Waltz a couple times before getting winded.
Now in my 30s I bought a Yamaha 222 and hadn't managed to get the 2nd octave after all!
That was great!
Sometimes is very difficult to explain thigs like that, and you do an AWESOME job!!! Thaks for the tutorial
My third octave E is registering as B flat E, B flat E, it won't stabilize. My third octave F is doing the same thing: F A, F A. What am I doing wrong.
This really helped. Especially the comment about relearning and getting frustrated.
You are simply amazing!!! Today I was struggling doing the exercise 10 of Gariboldi 58 etudes in switching notes. This is exactly what I would have needed!! Tomorrow im gonna try !
Really thanks for you are here!! 💕
Pleasure :)
Hi Tatiana! Thank you for the video! I have a question: I feel like when I am rolling my lips forward, my throat closes and I can't do that "hot potatoe" exercise. Do you have an advice?
This video is just what i needed to move on from the middel D. :D Your channel are my go to. I am self taught, and started about 3 weeks ago. :D
Also a patreon. You do amazing work with the channel. :D
Super nice
Great vid! Got it straight away afetr seeing yours and a couple others, I even went OMG I've just got it finally HAHA. So generous of people to freely share their knowledge. Thank you so much.
Thank you sooo much - your teachings are very helpful 😃👍😃
so helpful and funny ! tnks !
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Nice description. Very helpful. Thank you!
I’m learning baroque - rather than modern - flute, but I nevertheless find your tips very useful for this instrument! Thanks! 😊