1:03 | #1 - easy to carry 1:55 | #2 - it is so beautiful 2:37 | #3 - no reeds needed 3:07 | #4 - not very loud 4:17 | #5 - sound is beautiful 5:19 | #6 - relatively easy to pick up 6:32 | #7 - low maintenance 7:40 | #8 - no spit 8:34 | #9 - easy to tune 9:03 | #10 - so versatile
@@andsalomoni "for realz". When I go on vacation/travel, I usually take the flute with me because of that. Not being so loud is another bonus to be able practice at someone's house, or at a hotel
'Not very loud'? Wait until you see me in my second week of learning blowing like crazy to try and get the notes in the upper half of the middle octave...
Even as a working pianist I totally agree. Yes. You floutists are much more beautiful than my big bossy instrument. Haha. You can actually make an evening turn into a love kind of night. And waking up the sound of a beautiful flute beeing played. We can not say that about the piano. The notes on the piano are just their and their is no vibrato to them. And the piano actually in regards to all of this the sound of it sounds to much like a boss not something really beautiful it has a bossy tone to it. But a flute is more of the humble girl piano is like full 88 keys and it shows itself to bee beefy and a monster. It is kind of a prideful instrument. Where as a flute is well she is much more humble. And the notes on a flute are not just beautiful but pretty as well. It sounds like a jule every time it is played. Even a jazz flute. You can’t say that about the huge piano. The piano actually is kind of a jerk and hot headed instrument. When playing a note even. It is almost like it is saying “well, it is what it is here I am big and beefy their is no other way.” And also if the piano had an attitude actually it would bee stuck up little brat. Hahaha. And i am talking about my instrument. Hahaha. I don’t think my fellow pianists would tell you this but I am. The flute in all her glory doesn’t even have that type of attitude. The flute is talking like “here I am I am pretty…. I am happy to bee with you.” The piano can’t say that. Actually if you want to know the truth about the piano it is a peace of work. Stretching across her keyboard we break our backs just to play her. Oh by the way. My digital piano at home is named Anna. She is sprawled out against the wall. But yea. She is a big instrument and has that I can do everything attitude. Playing the piano actually is a pain in the ass because you are breaking your back practically to play the thing but you flute players don’t have to do all of the dramatic movements like we do. You might move but not like we have to across that huge ass keyboard on the piano. The piano actually is a demanding little sucker. You have to bee a certain way to play it sitting not to far, but not to close. You can’t pick it up either. Hahaha. You have to go to it. With the flute she is humble and will let you hold her she is easy to array. So enjoy that humble girl… the best friendship you could have with an instrument and that will always love you is the flute.
Flute fits in effortlessly with a lot of other instrument, but how many instrument can fit in effortlessly with just as many other instruments as the flute?
It gives your lungs PEEP (positive end-expiratory pressure). The use of PEEP mainly has been reserved to recruit or stabilize lung units and improve oxygenation in patients who have hypoxemic respiratory failure. It has been shown that this helps the respiratory muscles to decrease the work of breathing and the amount of infiltrated-atelectatic tissues. The beneficial effects of the use of PEEP include: the improvement of oxygenation, recruitment of lung units, and improvement of compliance. Other effects can be adverse, like decreasing cardiac output, increased risk of barotrauma, and the interference with assessment of hemodynamic pressures. I have damaged my lungs from military service and began playing the flute instead if inspirometers or peak-flow meters as a form of lung therapy. The pursed lips required to play a flutes causes a back pressure pressure that keeps the alveoli in the lungs expanded which is her L0ful,for asthma, COPD and emphysema.
THE reason I play the flute is the beautiful sound... Well, I'm a bit squeeky in the top octive cause you know... Experiance... but that beautiful mellow low and lovely mid octive... I'm hoping to buy a bass flute soon... Will see how I go with that... But have loved that glorious sound since a young child....
My daughter, begged me to buy her a flute for the reasons you gave. She after a month stated it was too difficult to play. So when she went off to summer camp I tried to teach myself, to see if it was indeed so difficult ( I play cornet and violin). I have been hooked ever since and my daughter has now moved on to piano
It's a shame that this is such an underrated instrument because it can be used in just about any style of music (rock, pop, R&B, jazz, etc.), and I intend to experiment with as many different genres as I can find.
I’ve never played the flute before but I’m starting as a way to help my depression/anxiety! My only experience before is playing the clarinet in middle school - now I’m 25 and I’m so excited to start! It’s a cheap one off of amazon but I’ll get a better one from my local music store if I like it!
I just have a problem with flute being easy it is not well yes if you are playing for fun and its a chill activitie you are good to go but playing it profassionaly oh boy you need to get intonation right and spend houers trying to get a good sound its very hard to sound beautiful.
Sepanta Fathi I actually totally agree with you on that point. I think the flute is easy to get started on but really finding the nuanced details on it is difficult. And to be professional is all about being a master at the instrument!
As I child and teenager, I studied the clarinet and taught myself to play the flute and bassoon. My dream was to play one of these instruments in a symphony orchestra. Life took me in a different direction. About 25 years ago, I seriously began studying the flutes (concert, piccolo, and alto). The flute, particularly the alto, is hauntingly and delicately beautiful. More recently, I began playing the clarinet again (the Bb, Eb, and the tiny piccolo Ab clarinet). The clarinet, like Mozart reportedly said, can have the quality of the human voice and is a deeply expressive instrument. I love both the flute and clarinet. I personally find the clarinet so much easier to play than the flute (assuming you have a good reed; and yes, reeds are a pain). This is likely due to me learning the clarinet first. I tend to use a clarinet embouchure when playing the flute, which doesn’t work well. I also love the bassoon. I’ve never played the oboe. But a well-played oboe is stunning beautiful.
I'm a saxophone player. After years of frustration regarding reeds and mouthpieces, I went ahead and ordered myself a reasonably priced cosed hole flute today. Aside from liking the sound of it, no reeds was my main reason for purchase😊 I hope I'll be able to play it decently🤗 I've never tried playing a flute before...
The flute is such a beautiful instrument. I plan on learning the western flute. I'm learning the dizi flute and after 4 days of practice I'm pretty proud of myself. It's out of this world!
Just wanted to tell you that because of this video i’ve decided as my 2nd instrument [following piano] to be flute and it was the best choice. The maitenance and transportability is pure haven, not speaking of sound and expressivness. I am in debt to you!
There is something magical and haunting about its tone, even Mozart agree to that. On the negative is the cost but you get a good one and it will last forever.
Honestly reason number four has been my biggest motivation. I grew up playing the trumpet and despite loving band I never practiced because the noise would really upset my family. As a result I never really excelled. Now that I'm an adult I miss playing an instrument, and the flute fits right in to the life of moving around multiple apartments.
Definitely! The flute is so much softer and quieter than some other instruments that would drive your family or neighbors crazy: drums, brass, or electric guitar or bass--because who's going to have the discipline to leave the amp turned down and play those quietly? :D
Reason no. 11: Flute is ACOUSTIC instrument (as mainly amateur bass player, i know what i am talking about. And i own second hand Conn Selmer Prelude FL-710 for only about a week...kind of heavy to get that first "D", but after i realised how EASY is to tune it just by pulling mouthpiece part out and use a cellphone tuner...whaaA :) Reason no. 12. Ian Anderson plays flute. Reason no. 13. Ed Cawthorne plays flute...yes, Tenderlonious. Reason no. 14. Herbie Mann played flute. Reason no. 15. Ronald Snijders plays flute (yess, jazzy funky man with Surinam background) And more and more reasons....
Hey Tatiana, you are such a joy to watch! I love your videos! I am 64 and haven't played flute since I was in high school. I recently bought a new flute because my old flute was in such bad shape and because I always wanted a 17 hole flute with open hole keys. I have to admit, it's been difficult getting used to the open holes but its coming along. And just yesterday I purchased my first Alto flute, which is on order and I will get in a few weeks. I can't wait to try it out. Anyway, please keep the videos coming, I have learned so much from you. Thank you!
I play recorders mostly, but I'm about to take up flute. Always loved the sound. But I like the sound of ALL the woodwind. And brass. And strings. And... Well I'm going to learn flute.
Nice video! I can't resist to ask: Will you do a video about why a flute is not that easy to play? For example: - Find first embouchure - Cost of air (>>Circular breathing on it
David Coulombe I need to screenshot this comment! So many great ideas that I will take up. When Corona passes and I have the funds to travel again I want to get to a bass and contrabass flute 😃😃😃 great idea about why the flute is difficult to play! Can I quote this comment in the video?
David Coulombe Finally someone, who supports recorders and not just blindly criticize them... It´s obvious that when they are played by little kids the recorders will sound really bad. But once you learn how to play it, it sounds beautiful. And that´s the same with all instruments - don´t judge the instrument just by someone who can´t play it properly!
Nikaelle I agree with you like honestly do you really expect a kid who has most likely never touched an instrument before to sound great ?? ( Although it didn’t take that long for me to sound good but this isn’t about me. )
i just started learning the flute and i love it for all the reasons you shared. mostly i just love the sound and how simple and beautiful the instrument is.
It's all relative. It depends on what sound, effect you're after. They're tools with different uses. But if we'd technically HAVE TO choose 1 category of instruments it would be the synthesizer as it is the most important instrument (half of all western genres depend on it and the rest uses it regularly in some form of another), it's hard to imagine a song on the radio from the late 70's up till now without at least some kind of synth pad in there somewhere to fill out some sonic spectrum, provide some tone colours for the palette, etc. Subtractive and FM synthesis were more influential in western music then the electric guitar! For me personally it's the shakuhachi - which is a kind of flute - because the mindset and history behind it are wildly different from western musical instruments. With notations that are specific to each ryu on that same instrument, in other words, a specific katakana based notation for that single instrument, with variations to every specific school of that instrument that traces its lineage back to the original komuso temples of fuke shu rinzai zen, taught from master on student in iemoto lineages, with a certain ryu called Kimpu Ryu tracing it's lineage back to ex samurai - 'ronin' from the Northern regions of honshu like the Aomori, Tsugaru - where Tsugaru shamisen comes from - Hirosaki regions; those ronin picked up the instrument besides the mendicant fuke shu monks It (the Edo period shakuhachi) being a spiritual instrument that before the Meïji restoration was forbidden for laymen to touch/make/play. Also not that many people play it, so at least to me it feels less competitive. Competition is sometimes the last thing I need in music.
Flute is flute !!! I do love Sax Keyboard And I do love all of them even the instruments that i dont have right now but I look forward to purchase a ... Guitar Recorder ...
#5 The first flute I bought is called Silvia (my first solid silver head joint, plus a popular joke song at my high school when I bought her). My new flute is Goldilocks (because she has gold riser and, of all the flutes I tried, she's just right).
I started playing the flute again after quitting 35 years ago, but I will always think that the synthesizer is the best instrument. You have an infinite palate of sounds to work with, your music can use the entire sound spectrum, and you can hold a note indefinitely, not to mention the depth of sound that’s at your disposal. You don’t even need a keyboard interface to play one! That being said, however, the flute has an intimacy that you simply can’t replicate because it’s tactile and requires your body in order for it to work. Ultimately, I want to use them in tandem with each other. I’m very interested in transformative electronics in a musical sense. Peace.
The flute is sexy! It looks like we're blowing kisses when we play. And, yes, as a piano, violin, and flute player, I can say that it is easier than the violin and prettier than a piano.
Oh No you just have the "sexy smoochy embouchure".. I have the "Discontent embouchure" (i. e. The Flute Channel lookalike) and That's kinda the opposite
You're so right about reason 2. My big sister was playing in a concert (bass clarinet) and these shiny silver things were in the front row. I didn't even know what they were called but 8 y/o me was mesmerized. They were so pretty. After the concert I grilled my sister about them and I knew that one day I was going to play one and I did.
I actually play an "irish" (also called simple-system) flute, and i was very suprised with how similar yet different it is, in all aspects! From holding, to the key system, to the tone color!
@@TheFlutePractice I settled on it mostly because my main interest is in irish music, yet i will still get a keyed one cause i want to play some other things on the side (mostly Joe Hisaishi). I did try my teacher's Boehm flute for a little bit during a lesson, and it felt quite weird to the hands with all the metal and the keys, where i was used to closing open holes. I'm pretty sure i will get a Boehm at some point regardless, mostly for the different tone color.
Lol! Good one. My home territory for most of the 40 years I've been training with musical instruments is guitars in both 6 string electric and acoustic and bass versions, especially the bass. Guitar and voice have been my focus since about 10 years ago, and song writing and performance in the open mic situations available before the lock down hit. Flute I took on in bamboo and wooden recorder versions ca. 1994. Asian sounds were familiar to me along with African and Australian, didgeridoo a little bit later where I learned how to circular breathe. 2018 was when I was at a community jam, Blues tilt extreme, just sitting with no instrument when a friend of jam walked up to me and placed a Geimenhardt student flute, probably from the 60's in my hands and said, "I think you know what to do with this." Uh, thanks, sort of. She left me to it as the jam was going and I did figure out the left hand quick. The right hand buttons I didn't get until I took it home later on, she ended up gifting me the flute. I still didn't go very deep into learning the fine details of the instrument. I honestly could not fathom that it was remotely possible to play high notes softly. I'm starting to get it. Cargo bike stolen recently with that flute onboard. I got enough in crowd fund to replace the flute if not the bike just yet, and having lost it for a time and then getting it back I started looking up flute tutorials. First one was Just Another Flutist who talked about her Trevor Wye books. I found one at a local music store, the Tone book. That book and all the vids from you and so many others have made the flute my present focus, keeping guitar and voice on present level is quite more than good enough as is bass that I can still pick up and play like I never put it down. I dig a challenge as bands like King Crimson, Dead Can Dance, Yes, The Beatles, The Cure are key favorites. Even the simpler bands like The Cure actually have a lot of sophistication in how the parts weave together, especially on the album Disintegration, like Bach string quartet kind of things the way the guitars and bass interweave with the keyboards. King Crimson! Mel Collins is a great horn player, flute among them. Jethro Tull! Ian Anderson was one of my favorites from the early 70's London music scene when I was still focused on bass as a teen. I do things like that, add my voice and trill my tongue and snort my nose, which I can make growl like a big cat. But the fine skills to adjust tone, to play high notes sweetly and not always like a shrieking electric guitar, to play harmonics intentionally and not just have them pop out at random a la Jam, the embouchure strength to be able to hold the structure and still relax, to be able to get back down to the lowest note after jamming way up high for awhile, these things take great dedication to get right. Even making the low C easy to get always is as much of a process as it was when my old bamboo flute was lost in a fire and the replacement was a good 4 inches longer, low B the bottom note. Just like low C on the metal flute it was a process to relax my hand enough to easily cover all the holes and sound out the low B clearly. The angles of challenge are inspiring to train what with my martial arts training alongside music for a long time now. Robert Fripp training got to me round 2007 so I appreciate the value of correct ergonomics, always adjusting my posture and embouchure to ongoing improvements in my sense of how this wonderful instrument works. Lastly, the birds have taken me in as one of them in a way from my willingness to jam with them over the years. The flute is the human instrument that can make sounds closest to the songbirds and I do lots of multi tonal trilling things with the flute, more sweet and intentional with the ongoing training. You're my favorite so far. I like your humor especially, and your respect for non traditional cats like Ian Anderson. Thank you!
Night tide, 1962 film starring Dennis Hopper. In the first 5 minutes or so you can see brilliant footage of Paul Horne and his group in an LA jazz club, he was a brilliant flute player. Plenty of footage of Horne playing up tempo. Sick that he and his group get no mention at all in the credits. The film is probably here to see on You tube. I love this video by the way, made me laugh...good fun. Thinking of buying a flute.....
my dad plays flute, and my daughter is learning now. I am into guitar. I never liked wind instruments, but you are so passionate! I was falling on love with the flute, lol
Coming to the flute after playing sax, I found that the flute was more difficult to hold (without dropping it), more difficult to finger (the middle register particularly, having to improvise a different octave hole for each note), and more difficult to blow. So for me the sax is easiest. But it does give a nice contrast of sound. Reeds can be a pain, certainly, until you find the ones that really work for you, but on the plus side reeds give you much more contrast between loud and soft dynamics.
Okay but as a saxophone player... I'm saxy :) Jokes aside, I named my saxophone Madonna and my flute Taylor Swift. I also play violin and omggg you're so right, out of all of my instruments violin is so dang hard!!! But also it's a skill issue. So far I've been playing flute for 2 weeks and it's the easiest instrument I've been able to pick up so far, but that also might be because it's my 6th and I play it for literally 2-4 hours every day. 2 weeks and I already love it more than the 6 years I've played violin. Saxophone still holds my heart though... Yeah reeds kinda suck but also they're an easy cop out when you mess up. Oh that wrong note? Just my reed acting up. Squeak? Reed. Forgot my music at home? It's this stupid piece of wood's fault!!! Obviously.
I got a flute a week ago and immediately made some beautiful sounds but I had to learn the thumb key to actually play more than two notes. I played trumpet in band so learning notes and all that should come easy once I understand which note pegs to which combo of keys. Wish me luck. My dad said he couldn't for the life of him make a sound on a flute for weeks until he just used the head piece to make a sound then all was good. I love the flute sound much like french horn. Trumpet is cool, bass is mega cool, and guitar is awesome, BTW.
I love all your wonderful comments about flute as the no. 1 instrument. Yes,I totally agree with you!With violin,guitar,keyboard , harmonica and harp, I love my flute as my top instrument! More power to you!👍❤️🥰
I'm not even a musician but when I hear flutes in music it so beautiful and enchanting. It's weird but I feel completely entranced, like hearing siren's song. Idk if that's a good or bad thing. (also you have a lovely accent, sounds South African!)
The alto flute is nice and so is the Irish flute. Bass flutes are cool. Contrabass flutes are too but they are really a test of one's ability to stave off hyperventilation. I wanted to BE Ian Anderson what I was a teenager. I play guitar and other like thingies. Probably the best instrument because of the ability to play monophonically and polyphonicly at the same time. Also, thanks to digital amplifier simulators, I can play music as loud as I want and no one else can hear it.
The reason I started playing the flute (asides from my mum playing it a bit so I could borrow hers) was because my husband plays a load of instruments by ear ... but no wind instruments... so no competition in my house and I have no confidence singing and you can't sing with the flute - win win.
I pretty much agree with everything you said Tatiana because I’ve played flute and saxophone both in bands but the one thing that I have to say that when I played in flute choir in university, I had to lug around a bass flute, and alto flute and a regular flute and stand to accommodate a different size flutes and I had to worry about some idiot bed
Very hard to reply on a phone to save time.. 😩anyway what I meant to say is I had to lug these things around and worry about them getting damaged and it wasn’t as free and flexible as I initially thought lol cheers!!
The Flute Practice - and how, for many reasons ! Also, I found it being an alto sax player in a band was a lot more convenient than tenor, Although I much prefer the sound of a tenor sax over an alto sax, but that’s another story, and genre specific. 😘
ackhtually, trumpet and torombone has some very good mutes which make it softer than a flute and you can kinda put a sock in it. Intstruments which don't have holes can always be muted easily. Now even saxophones have that weird huge and impractical mute, but I would take brass anytime
Well, I’ve been playing guitar since ‘68, mainly rock and blues, performed in bands ever since, started on sax in the fourth grade, grew up in a musical household, my dad sang opera and played piano and we were exposed to classical music at early ages, I’ve always been a fan of Ian Anderson’s brilliant work in Jethro Tull and Chris Wood in traffic, also much of the flute work in Jazz, I’ve been itching to take up the flute for some time now, and after watching Tatianna’s videos I’m sure I will, and I’ll watch her videos repeatedly as they are both informative and entertaining, and she’s such a baby doll (what we call a pretty girl here in the south) 😍😍😍
Faith and I (Faith is the name of my Flute) agree with you Tatiana, yet, (in my humble opinion), you forgot to mention two essential aspects of our Instrument: *1st:* It is the closest in expression to the Human Voice and ... *2nd:* Its sound is just ... Heavenly, as a Solo Instrument and increasingly when you add 1 or 2 or 3 Flutes, the Timbre, the Harmony, the Beauty, SPECIALLY in a Two, Three or Four Part Counterpoint ... again ... just Absolutely Heavenly. Another awesome video by one of the most awesome Lass/Flutist/Teacher I know. God Bless
Great video, made me laugh 😆 I don’t play the flute but have seriously been thinking about it and watching this video is REALLY making me want to learn 😊
loved this video :) my flute is called Florence or Flo if he's feeling jazzy. I have Frank the fiddle (or Vincent the violin depending on style played/mood he's in) and i also have Helga the harp on her way!!
I am a working pianist. I am so glad that you named your instruments. Well, my digital piano’s name is Anna after a girl I knew back when I was going to high school. Let me tell you she is a piece of work but it is a joy to play her. The flute name is awesome. Got to love your flute. Pretty awesome that you name your instruments. The sound that a flute makes is that much more beautiful I think than the instrument I play. Yea. Piano can bee a nice instrument to hear but really it is more serious where as a flute is such a beautiful sound it is like heaven and so is the harp actually. With a piano you can’t really say that. Hahaha. I love the fact that you named your harp Helga. What a great Mae for a harp. And the names for all your other instruments is awesome. At one time before getting the digital piano I did have a synthesizer and her name was gladdis. She was a good synthesizer but I love the digital piano better cause she has a full keyboard. But the thing with the pianos at work now, no. I don’t name those. Those are just baby grands or concert grand pianos but the piano at home she is digital and her name is Anna. She is actually kind of a boss to play. She thinks she is hte boss actually she don’t like to have anyone else play with her. It is just her making all those instruments. She thinks she is the stuff. She is loud and very expressive. Barks at me when I am playing her with the roads electric piano and screams with guitars. She can bee soft but she is loud proud mean machine. I get her to sing all the time and she listens to every one of my commands. She is a piece of work to play but she loves me as i boss her around. Sometimes I will go to her when i start playing he and i will say. “Alright you piece of work lets go.” Yea. This girl thinks that she is the boss. Even though sometimes she can bee a bit of a jerk I do cherish her and play her every day when i am not working. She does get her attention and well attended to. But that is the story behind miss Anna the digital piano. She comes across big, bossy and sassy. She has no problems expressing herself playing her is like fighting with someone. She likes to work hard and bee played hard actually. Unlike the acoustics i play at work. You got fight her kind of to play her.but at the end of hte day she knows that she is the boss. When i am playing her she is well heard by everyone. I even will let her get a bit jazzy as well as she does play jazz very well. But yea. She actually is very intimidating I would shay she is a pretty girl. She is big bad and intimidating and a boss. At the end of the day she knows it too.
Oh my gosh that is so awesome. Actually a flute name is great Juliette. Actually shows your flute to bee a jule. I am a working pianist and I don’t ever name the pianos at work when I go and perform, but my digitla’s name is Anna. Yea. She is a piece of work and she loves to bee loud and show herself. She is expressive and direct just like me. Great flute name. Flutes are jewls.and nobody can say differently hahahaha. I woul not really say a piano is a jewel. No I am sorry. It is a jerk and it loves to bee intimidating though the sound of it can come across as beautiful but it is a deceiving instrument. The piano actually is an intimidating and jerk instrument. It for sure is not the jewel of instruments. It looks big bad bossy and intimidating. It is all sprawled out over a stage and takes up room. The piano loves to take up space and it is not easily moved. Even a digital is freaking heavy. Not like a precious jewel like the flute. The flute is a jem and it is like that girl who wants to stay with you for ever and she is happy to bee in your lap if you want to rest with her in between playing her. She is delicate and she is a jule we can’t say that about the piano. Yea. The piano is all shiny but it just comes across as “I am the boss!!! I am huge big and bad and I like to sprawl out everywhere this is nobody’s space but mine I take this space!!!” That is kind of the attitude of the piano. Hahaha the flute doesn’t have that attitude at all. Plus the attitude of the piano is you can’t bee to close to it or to far. You have to spend time with it and you get demanded as a pianist to play for last minute gigs sometimes also with family if they know that you are a pianist then you are asked to play for background a lot because they know they have you. So really a piano is kind of an unforgiving instrument and really is kind of a jerk. May look shiny on the outside but what happens behind all of need other movers to help you with it you can’t play it late at night or you will annoy the hell out of everyone unles you have a digital but still even then people will hear the clunk of the keys. So digitals too they are kind of clunky but all in all and i am talking about my instrument hahahaha it is a pain in the ass hahahahahaha. The flute you don’t have to talk about it that way though. She is always wanting to bee picked up and loved. She is really a jule. Nope can’t say that about my instrument. Hahahahaha.this is a lot of owrk. You have to keep it maintained and tuned you can not transport it yourself. You
I started on Native American flute in 2007. As some may know the note range is limited. That is why I'm also working on concert flute. I don't think I would put one above the other.
I joined my school band (online sadly) and got flute! I’ve wanted to play for awhile but it was never a option unless I got personal lessons which are like a hour away from me... so I’m so excited!!
The viola is badass. I play strings. Love it. Been playing flute for 3 days. loving my progress and the instrument even more than I have ever before. NO REEDs!!!
11) with a lot of practice you have so many collerful tunes. 12) you can learn to play this instrument when you are an adult and grow old with it and still play because you don’t have to build up such a high tension in your system like brassplayers have to. 12) it’s a good mirror for how you’re doing. Not always fun.. bad day really bad flute playing 😅 13) well I really love the flute. And playing any instrument 🎷 📯🎸🪗🪕🎻🪇🪘🎹 is SOOOOO GOOD FOR YOUR BRAIN!!
Yes its true that you say, and my should is that flute possible tune in A 432hz for meditation and cimatic good frequency for filosophy Giuseppe Verdi. I love 432hz but impossible with modern flute play to tune, but is only one standard tune to 440hz or 442hz, and the american music '60 '70 tune 438hz maybe possible play,
Ocarina: Fits in pants pocket, can be painted and stamped at soctumized! What is reeds? (Self tought ^^') It is one piece of clay, so there is no plastik thingy! Also no tverry loud^^ Also sounds good (Ocarina of time, Ocarina madley exist people!) Even less holes to learn than a recorder XD Lowest maintanance ever! Spit is trapped inside and can easily evaporate. So we good^^ We could play everywhere too and depending on moddle, we would be the star of the show! My littl eclay potato not so much... It's cute! Ever thought an instrument cute? Mine is!
If you're looking for a wind instrument "that's relatively accessbile and easy to play," that would be the recorder you threw over your shoulder. It has a serious Classical repertoire and is also good for medieval, Renaissance, and folk music, as well as contemporary pieces. A quality student instrument is cheaper than a comparable flute, it's more comfortable/ergonomic to play (assuming you're talking an alto or soprano), and is easier for most people to get a good tone out of at first. Also, you're not spitting into a recorder, unless you're playing it entirely wrong. It's condensation buildup, just like you see in a flute. And you don't suck it in, you blow it out. Anyway, I try to play whatever instruments I can get my hands on, including flute--why limit yourself? :)
I agreed with you Taliana that the flute the best and most beautiful instrument and I guess one of the oldest instruments. I have no experience on flute. Just bought one for the beginner. I’m hard of hearing and wear hearing aids. I will like to become friends with you Taliana🙂😍
You Are Absolutely Right The Flute Is So Beautiful. Could You Give Me Flute Lessons?I’d Love To Learn How To Play It. I Regret Not Learning It In High School. And I Wish I Could Learn How To Play It Now.
Thanks for an entertaining video! I was right with you and laughed a lot! And I AGREE with you on most everything. Concerning spit, I often end up with a wet thigh from setting my flute on it, and I often blow through it (like brass players) to empty it of too much moisture. But no big deal. I'm so glad I chose a flute!!
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this video is the best i ever watch, i will save for replay in the future.
I wish I'd see this earlier! I laughed at #1 because the very first thing that came to my mind was that I can get it on a plane without anticipating a knock-down-drag-out with the gate agent! 😀
1:03 | #1 - easy to carry
1:55 | #2 - it is so beautiful
2:37 | #3 - no reeds needed
3:07 | #4 - not very loud
4:17 | #5 - sound is beautiful
5:19 | #6 - relatively easy to pick up
6:32 | #7 - low maintenance
7:40 | #8 - no spit
8:34 | #9 - easy to tune
9:03 | #10 - so versatile
Thank you 🥲
"Easy to carry" is a very valuable feature. If you play a bamboo flute, you also get a "ZERO maintenance" bonus.
@@andsalomoni "for realz". When I go on vacation/travel, I usually take the flute with me because of that. Not being so loud is another bonus to be able practice at someone's house, or at a hotel
'Not very loud'? Wait until you see me in my second week of learning blowing like crazy to try and get the notes in the upper half of the middle octave...
Flute: easy to tune
Piccolo: O.o
I can't stop myself to keep staring at my flute sometimes, just adoring how beautiful she is! I love flute!!!
Hao Hao Du 😍😍😍 she really is!!!!
I really want a flute when I was younger when I had a recorder I use to pretend to play the flute on my recorder.
*looks at my flute in confusion*
she looks the same as the others but she doesn't look pretty to me ;-;
That’s how I feel about my silver trumpet.
Careful I heard your flute went bi gender
Flute > All other instruments
Violinists (who get all the attention and love usually): *Shocked Pikachu face*
Becca Makin 😂😂😂 they really do...although us flutists are all about that diva life 💃🏻
Shocked pikachu
I’m a violinist I can confirm this is TRUE
@@TheFlutePractice yesssssss
Even as a working pianist I totally agree. Yes. You floutists are much more beautiful than my big bossy instrument. Haha. You can actually make an evening turn into a love kind of night. And waking up the sound of a beautiful flute beeing played. We can not say that about the piano. The notes on the piano are just their and their is no vibrato to them. And the piano actually in regards to all of this the sound of it sounds to much like a boss not something really beautiful it has a bossy tone to it. But a flute is more of the humble girl piano is like full 88 keys and it shows itself to bee beefy and a monster. It is kind of a prideful instrument. Where as a flute is well she is much more humble. And the notes on a flute are not just beautiful but pretty as well. It sounds like a jule every time it is played. Even a jazz flute. You can’t say that about the huge piano. The piano actually is kind of a jerk and hot headed instrument. When playing a note even. It is almost like it is saying “well, it is what it is here I am big and beefy their is no other way.” And also if the piano had an attitude actually it would bee stuck up little brat. Hahaha. And i am talking about my instrument. Hahaha. I don’t think my fellow pianists would tell you this but I am. The flute in all her glory doesn’t even have that type of attitude. The flute is talking like “here I am I am pretty…. I am happy to bee with you.” The piano can’t say that. Actually if you want to know the truth about the piano it is a peace of work. Stretching across her keyboard we break our backs just to play her. Oh by the way. My digital piano at home is named Anna. She is sprawled out against the wall. But yea. She is a big instrument and has that I can do everything attitude. Playing the piano actually is a pain in the ass because you are breaking your back practically to play the thing but you flute players don’t have to do all of the dramatic movements like we do. You might move but not like we have to across that huge ass keyboard on the piano. The piano actually is a demanding little sucker. You have to bee a certain way to play it sitting not to far, but not to close. You can’t pick it up either. Hahaha. You have to go to it. With the flute she is humble and will let you hold her she is easy to array. So enjoy that humble girl… the best friendship you could have with an instrument and that will always love you is the flute.
Flute: The instrument that looks like jewelry. All silver, gold, and platinum. Who wears brass anymore? Like, since the dark ages?
Amidala hahahahahahahaha!!! Such.a.good.point. It really is so pretty!
Wear it as jewelry then if someone annoys you just play a REALLY high note
Wooden flutes are the upper echelon of flutes
Voice is the best instrument. 1. Easy to carry 2. Makes for a lot of direct communication of expression 3. Practice almost anywhere at any moment.
"Play louder, flutes!"
Piccolo: "prepare for trouble!"
Fife: "and make it double."
Scarlet 8 yrs old: “The flute makes so many different sounds I just love it! Her name is Mystique!”
"to protect the world from devastation"
My noob self : DID YOU SAY LOUD !
@@eriol_h "to save all people within our nation"
"Play louder, flutes!"
Piccolo: (proceeds to be himself)
Cellist inn front, I hope the conductor has the foresight to check his brake lines later.
The flute also sounds good solo, unaccompanied, accompanied, in small groups, in flute choirs and in orchestras. That's cool
Agreed. Point number 11 👌🏼
Flute fits in effortlessly with a lot of other instrument, but how many instrument can fit in effortlessly with just as many other instruments as the flute?
It gives your lungs PEEP (positive end-expiratory pressure). The use of PEEP mainly has been reserved to recruit or stabilize lung units and improve oxygenation in patients who have hypoxemic respiratory failure. It has been shown that this helps the respiratory muscles to decrease the work of breathing and the amount of infiltrated-atelectatic tissues. The beneficial effects of the use of PEEP include: the improvement of oxygenation, recruitment of lung units, and improvement of compliance. Other effects can be adverse, like decreasing cardiac output, increased risk of barotrauma, and the interference with assessment of hemodynamic pressures. I have damaged my lungs from military service and began playing the flute instead if inspirometers or peak-flow meters as a form of lung therapy. The pursed lips required to play a flutes causes a back pressure pressure that keeps the alveoli in the lungs expanded which is her
L0ful,for asthma, COPD and emphysema.
THE reason I play the flute is the beautiful sound... Well, I'm a bit squeeky in the top octive cause you know... Experiance... but that beautiful mellow low and lovely mid octive... I'm hoping to buy a bass flute soon... Will see how I go with that... But have loved that glorious sound since a young child....
My daughter, begged me to buy her a flute for the reasons you gave. She after a month stated it was too difficult to play. So when she went off to summer camp I tried to teach myself, to see if it was indeed so difficult ( I play cornet and violin). I have been hooked ever since and my daughter has now moved on to piano
I’m relearning daily practice is mandatory ! No play no gain
It's a shame that this is such an underrated instrument because it can be used in just about any style of music (rock, pop, R&B, jazz, etc.), and I intend to experiment with as many different genres as I can find.
Very cool!
Have a listen at Eric Dolphy
Flute: we were the first instrument
Percussion: am I a joke to you?
I’ve never played the flute before but I’m starting as a way to help my depression/anxiety! My only experience before is playing the clarinet in middle school - now I’m 25 and I’m so excited to start! It’s a cheap one off of amazon but I’ll get a better one from my local music store if I like it!
I’m 16 and I just got my flute in the mail for those exact reasons! I got a Gemeinhardt 2BLK. Stay strong!
Stay strong i'm sure you will be a fast learner and will sound awesome someday
I just have a problem with flute being easy it is not well yes if you are playing for fun and its a chill activitie you are good to go but playing it profassionaly oh boy you need to get intonation right and spend houers trying to get a good sound its very hard to sound beautiful.
Sepanta Fathi I actually totally agree with you on that point. I think the flute is easy to get started on but really finding the nuanced details on it is difficult. And to be professional is all about being a master at the instrument!
I agree
Its not that hard
As I child and teenager, I studied the clarinet and taught myself to play the flute and bassoon. My dream was to play one of these instruments in a symphony orchestra. Life took me in a different direction. About 25 years ago, I seriously began studying the flutes (concert, piccolo, and alto). The flute, particularly the alto, is hauntingly and delicately beautiful. More recently, I began playing the clarinet again (the Bb, Eb, and the tiny piccolo Ab clarinet). The clarinet, like Mozart reportedly said, can have the quality of the human voice and is a deeply expressive instrument. I love both the flute and clarinet. I personally find the clarinet so much easier to play than the flute (assuming you have a good reed; and yes, reeds are a pain). This is likely due to me learning the clarinet first. I tend to use a clarinet embouchure when playing the flute, which doesn’t work well. I also love the bassoon. I’ve never played the oboe. But a well-played oboe is stunning beautiful.
I'm a saxophone player. After years of frustration regarding reeds and mouthpieces, I went ahead and ordered myself a reasonably priced cosed hole flute today. Aside from liking the sound of it, no reeds was my main reason for purchase😊 I hope I'll be able to play it decently🤗 I've never tried playing a flute before...
The flute is such a beautiful instrument. I plan on learning the western flute. I'm learning the dizi flute and after 4 days of practice I'm pretty proud of myself. It's out of this world!
A dizi flute is a Chinese transverse flute usually made of bamboo, for those of you like me that never heard of it.
Dizi is actually so hard you can mistake the emborchure hole for finger holes lmao
Just wanted to tell you that because of this video i’ve decided as my 2nd instrument [following piano] to be flute and it was the best choice. The maitenance and transportability is pure haven, not speaking of sound and expressivness. I am in debt to you!
There is something magical and haunting about its tone, even Mozart agree to that. On the negative is the cost but you get a good one and it will last forever.
Versatility is one very good point. I love being a flute student! Thanks for the inspirational videos! Greetings from Mexico!
Richard Rivera thanks! I’m glad you love it. It is such a great instrument! 🎵🎵🎵 keep practicing 🎶
I am a very sensitive musician
good thing the flute is my instrument
I second that
No reed. Reminds me of an ad for a used flute from a pawn shop saying that the mouthpiece seemed to be missing something.
LouisBertrandTech 😂😂😂😂 must have been a saxophone player selling it😂😂😂
Honestly reason number four has been my biggest motivation. I grew up playing the trumpet and despite loving band I never practiced because the noise would really upset my family. As a result I never really excelled. Now that I'm an adult I miss playing an instrument, and the flute fits right in to the life of moving around multiple apartments.
Definitely! The flute is so much softer and quieter than some other instruments that would drive your family or neighbors crazy: drums, brass, or electric guitar or bass--because who's going to have the discipline to leave the amp turned down and play those quietly? :D
Reason no. 11: Flute is ACOUSTIC instrument (as mainly amateur bass player, i know what i am talking about. And i own second hand Conn Selmer Prelude FL-710 for only about a week...kind of heavy to get that first "D", but after i realised how EASY is to tune it just by pulling mouthpiece part out and use a cellphone tuner...whaaA :)
Reason no. 12. Ian Anderson plays flute.
Reason no. 13. Ed Cawthorne plays flute...yes, Tenderlonious.
Reason no. 14. Herbie Mann played flute.
Reason no. 15. Ronald Snijders plays flute (yess, jazzy funky man with Surinam background)
And more and more reasons....
Hey Tatiana, you are such a joy to watch! I love your videos! I am 64 and haven't played flute since I was in high school. I recently bought a new flute because my old flute was in such bad shape and because I always wanted a 17 hole flute with open hole keys. I have to admit, it's been difficult getting used to the open holes but its coming along. And just yesterday I purchased my first Alto flute, which is on order and I will get in a few weeks. I can't wait to try it out. Anyway, please keep the videos coming, I have learned so much from you. Thank you!
I play recorders mostly, but I'm about to take up flute.
Always loved the sound.
But I like the sound of ALL the woodwind. And brass. And strings. And...
Well I'm going to learn flute.
Nice video!
I can't resist to ask: Will you do a video about why a flute is not that easy to play?
For example:
- Find first embouchure
- Cost of air (>>Circular breathing on it
David Coulombe I need to screenshot this comment! So many great ideas that I will take up. When Corona passes and I have the funds to travel again I want to get to a bass and contrabass flute 😃😃😃 great idea about why the flute is difficult to play! Can I quote this comment in the video?
David Coulombe Finally someone, who supports recorders and not just blindly criticize them... It´s obvious that when they are played by little kids the recorders will sound really bad. But once you learn how to play it, it sounds beautiful. And that´s the same with all instruments - don´t judge the instrument just by someone who can´t play it properly!
@@nikaelle5288 It' is a pleasure!
@@TheFlutePractice Yes you totally can!
Good luck on your journey!
Nikaelle I agree with you like honestly do you really expect a kid who has most likely never touched an instrument before to sound great ?? ( Although it didn’t take that long for me to sound good but this isn’t about me. )
"She wants your dedication and deepest love" - you have my heart flutes!
i just started learning the flute and i love it for all the reasons you shared. mostly i just love the sound and how simple and beautiful the instrument is.
as a fellow woodwind clarinet player, I fucking love flutes, flute solos, flute/clarinet/oboe duets, are so beautiful.
My flutes name is harmony because when I play her it harmonizes.
It's all relative. It depends on what sound, effect you're after. They're tools with different uses.
But if we'd technically HAVE TO choose 1 category of instruments it would be the synthesizer as it is the most important instrument (half of all western genres depend on it and the rest uses it regularly in some form of another), it's hard to imagine a song on the radio from the late 70's up till now without at least some kind of synth pad in there somewhere to fill out some sonic spectrum, provide some tone colours for the palette, etc.
Subtractive and FM synthesis were more influential in western music then the electric guitar!
For me personally it's the shakuhachi - which is a kind of flute - because the mindset and history behind it are wildly different from western musical instruments.
With notations that are specific to each ryu on that same instrument, in other words, a specific katakana based notation for that single instrument, with variations to every specific school of that instrument that traces its lineage back to the original komuso temples of fuke shu rinzai zen, taught from master on student in iemoto lineages, with a certain ryu called Kimpu Ryu tracing it's lineage back to ex samurai - 'ronin' from the Northern regions of honshu like the Aomori, Tsugaru - where Tsugaru shamisen comes from - Hirosaki regions; those ronin picked up the instrument besides the mendicant fuke shu monks
It (the Edo period shakuhachi) being a spiritual instrument that before the Meïji restoration was forbidden for laymen to touch/make/play.
Also not that many people play it, so at least to me it feels less competitive. Competition is sometimes the last thing I need in music.
I feel bad for my friend he has to carry his trombone
Flute is flute !!!
I do love
Sax
Keyboard
And I do love all of them even the instruments that i dont have right now but I look forward to purchase a ...
Guitar
Recorder ...
#5 The first flute I bought is called Silvia (my first solid silver head joint, plus a popular joke song at my high school when I bought her). My new flute is Goldilocks (because she has gold riser and, of all the flutes I tried, she's just right).
Amidala I love these names! My previous flute was Mr Darcy (Pride and prejudice) and now Mr Thornton from North and South!
@@TheFlutePractice I used to call him "Αγησίλαος" from a Spartan leader. 😊
I will name mine yuki when i get her
I started playing the flute again after quitting 35 years ago, but I will always think that the synthesizer is the best instrument. You have an infinite palate of sounds to work with, your music can use the entire sound spectrum, and you can hold a note indefinitely, not to mention the depth of sound that’s at your disposal. You don’t even need a keyboard interface to play one! That being said, however, the flute has an intimacy that you simply can’t replicate because it’s tactile and requires your body in order for it to work. Ultimately, I want to use them in tandem with each other. I’m very interested in transformative electronics in a musical sense. Peace.
6:12 me who plays all three instruments (Piano, Violin and Flute)
haha I'm gonna have a bad time!!!!
So is violin really harder than the flute?
wow same i play all three of those instruments :O
I just needed one reason; you gave me 10. Starting my lessons now.
The flute is sexy! It looks like we're blowing kisses when we play. And, yes, as a piano, violin, and flute player, I can say that it is easier than the violin and prettier than a piano.
tatisoap hehe...I love that point!!!! Hehe...I wonder if it makes us better kissers too 🤔
@@TheFlutePractice Yes, undoubtedly so!
Oh No you just have the "sexy smoochy embouchure".. I have the "Discontent embouchure" (i. e. The Flute Channel lookalike) and That's kinda the opposite
WORNG JUST WRONG!!!! I am SO bad at playing flute. It took me longer than other to learn hotcross buns
You're so right about reason 2. My big sister was playing in a concert (bass clarinet) and these shiny silver things were in the front row. I didn't even know what they were called but 8 y/o me was mesmerized. They were so pretty. After the concert I grilled my sister about them and I knew that one day I was going to play one and I did.
I actually play an "irish" (also called simple-system) flute, and i was very suprised with how similar yet different it is, in all aspects!
From holding, to the key system, to the tone color!
So similar! I have actually worked with some Irish flute players even though I know very little about the style but the techniques are so similar!
@@TheFlutePractice I settled on it mostly because my main interest is in irish music, yet i will still get a keyed one cause i want to play some other things on the side (mostly Joe Hisaishi).
I did try my teacher's Boehm flute for a little bit during a lesson, and it felt quite weird to the hands with all the metal and the keys, where i was used to closing open holes.
I'm pretty sure i will get a Boehm at some point regardless, mostly for the different tone color.
Lol! Good one. My home territory for most of the 40 years I've been training with musical instruments is guitars in both 6 string electric and acoustic and bass versions, especially the bass. Guitar and voice have been my focus since about 10 years ago, and song writing and performance in the open mic situations available before the lock down hit. Flute I took on in bamboo and wooden recorder versions ca. 1994. Asian sounds were familiar to me along with African and Australian, didgeridoo a little bit later where I learned how to circular breathe. 2018 was when I was at a community jam, Blues tilt extreme, just sitting with no instrument when a friend of jam walked up to me and placed a Geimenhardt student flute, probably from the 60's in my hands and said, "I think you know what to do with this." Uh, thanks, sort of. She left me to it as the jam was going and I did figure out the left hand quick. The right hand buttons I didn't get until I took it home later on, she ended up gifting me the flute. I still didn't go very deep into learning the fine details of the instrument. I honestly could not fathom that it was remotely possible to play high notes softly. I'm starting to get it. Cargo bike stolen recently with that flute onboard. I got enough in crowd fund to replace the flute if not the bike just yet, and having lost it for a time and then getting it back I started looking up flute tutorials. First one was Just Another Flutist who talked about her Trevor Wye books. I found one at a local music store, the Tone book. That book and all the vids from you and so many others have made the flute my present focus, keeping guitar and voice on present level is quite more than good enough as is bass that I can still pick up and play like I never put it down. I dig a challenge as bands like King Crimson, Dead Can Dance, Yes, The Beatles, The Cure are key favorites. Even the simpler bands like The Cure actually have a lot of sophistication in how the parts weave together, especially on the album Disintegration, like Bach string quartet kind of things the way the guitars and bass interweave with the keyboards. King Crimson! Mel Collins is a great horn player, flute among them. Jethro Tull! Ian Anderson was one of my favorites from the early 70's London music scene when I was still focused on bass as a teen. I do things like that, add my voice and trill my tongue and snort my nose, which I can make growl like a big cat. But the fine skills to adjust tone, to play high notes sweetly and not always like a shrieking electric guitar, to play harmonics intentionally and not just have them pop out at random a la Jam, the embouchure strength to be able to hold the structure and still relax, to be able to get back down to the lowest note after jamming way up high for awhile, these things take great dedication to get right. Even making the low C easy to get always is as much of a process as it was when my old bamboo flute was lost in a fire and the replacement was a good 4 inches longer, low B the bottom note. Just like low C on the metal flute it was a process to relax my hand enough to easily cover all the holes and sound out the low B clearly. The angles of challenge are inspiring to train what with my martial arts training alongside music for a long time now. Robert Fripp training got to me round 2007 so I appreciate the value of correct ergonomics, always adjusting my posture and embouchure to ongoing improvements in my sense of how this wonderful instrument works. Lastly, the birds have taken me in as one of them in a way from my willingness to jam with them over the years. The flute is the human instrument that can make sounds closest to the songbirds and I do lots of multi tonal trilling things with the flute, more sweet and intentional with the ongoing training. You're my favorite so far. I like your humor especially, and your respect for non traditional cats like Ian Anderson. Thank you!
Night tide, 1962 film starring Dennis Hopper. In the first 5 minutes or so you can see brilliant footage of Paul Horne and his group in an LA jazz club, he was a brilliant flute player. Plenty of footage of Horne playing up tempo. Sick that he and his group get no mention at all in the credits. The film is probably here to see on You tube. I love this video by the way, made me laugh...good fun. Thinking of buying a flute.....
my dad plays flute, and my daughter is learning now. I am into guitar. I never liked wind instruments, but you are so passionate! I was falling on love with the flute, lol
Coming to the flute after playing sax, I found that the flute was more difficult to hold (without dropping it), more difficult to finger (the middle register particularly, having to improvise a different octave hole for each note), and more difficult to blow. So for me the sax is easiest. But it does give a nice contrast of sound. Reeds can be a pain, certainly, until you find the ones that really work for you, but on the plus side reeds give you much more contrast between loud and soft dynamics.
Okay but as a saxophone player... I'm saxy :)
Jokes aside, I named my saxophone Madonna and my flute Taylor Swift. I also play violin and omggg you're so right, out of all of my instruments violin is so dang hard!!! But also it's a skill issue. So far I've been playing flute for 2 weeks and it's the easiest instrument I've been able to pick up so far, but that also might be because it's my 6th and I play it for literally 2-4 hours every day. 2 weeks and I already love it more than the 6 years I've played violin. Saxophone still holds my heart though...
Yeah reeds kinda suck but also they're an easy cop out when you mess up. Oh that wrong note? Just my reed acting up. Squeak? Reed. Forgot my music at home? It's this stupid piece of wood's fault!!! Obviously.
My flute's name is Kimberly🥰.
Also, proud to live in Slovenia, where they found that oldest flute (piščal Divje babe).
I got a flute a week ago and immediately made some beautiful sounds but I had to learn the thumb key to actually play more than two notes. I played trumpet in band so learning notes and all that should come easy once I understand which note pegs to which combo of keys. Wish me luck. My dad said he couldn't for the life of him make a sound on a flute for weeks until he just used the head piece to make a sound then all was good. I love the flute sound much like french horn. Trumpet is cool, bass is mega cool, and guitar is awesome, BTW.
Lol! You are such a character! Great video, too many great punches. :-)
I love all your wonderful comments about flute as the no. 1 instrument. Yes,I totally agree with you!With violin,guitar,keyboard ,
harmonica and harp, I love my flute as my top instrument! More power to you!👍❤️🥰
I'm not even a musician but when I hear flutes in music it so beautiful and enchanting. It's weird but I feel completely entranced, like hearing siren's song. Idk if that's a good or bad thing. (also you have a lovely accent, sounds South African!)
The alto flute is nice and so is the Irish flute. Bass flutes are cool. Contrabass flutes are too but they are really a test of one's ability to stave off hyperventilation. I wanted to BE Ian Anderson what I was a teenager. I play guitar and other like thingies. Probably the best instrument because of the ability to play monophonically and polyphonicly at the same time. Also, thanks to digital amplifier simulators, I can play music as loud as I want and no one else can hear it.
The reason I started playing the flute (asides from my mum playing it a bit so I could borrow hers) was because my husband plays a load of instruments by ear ... but no wind instruments... so no competition in my house and I have no confidence singing and you can't sing with the flute - win win.
6:31 omg FRONTIER PSYCHIATRIST!!!
On a more serious note, as my main is piano I can definitely appreciate when my instrument fits in my backpack :)
It's a Serpent. Don't ask...
I pretty much agree with everything you said Tatiana because I’ve played flute and saxophone both in bands but the one thing that I have to say that when I played in flute choir in university, I had to lug around a bass flute, and alto flute and a regular flute and stand to accommodate a different size flutes and I had to worry about some idiot bed
Very hard to reply on a phone to save time.. 😩anyway what I meant to say is I had to lug these things around and worry about them getting damaged and it wasn’t as free and flexible as I initially thought lol cheers!!
Hehe. You do make a very good point. Playing multiple flutes gets very complicated!
The Flute Practice - and how, for many reasons ! Also, I found it being an alto sax player in a band was a lot more convenient than tenor, Although I much prefer the sound of a tenor sax over an alto sax, but that’s another story, and genre specific. 😘
LMAO the practice at 12am part is so true I literally just did that yesterday
Hahaha…that’s how it’s done!
ackhtually, trumpet and torombone has some very good mutes which make it softer than a flute and you can kinda put a sock in it. Intstruments which don't have holes can always be muted easily. Now even saxophones have that weird huge and impractical mute, but I would take brass anytime
Well, I’ve been playing guitar since ‘68, mainly rock and blues, performed in bands ever since, started on sax in the fourth grade, grew up in a musical household, my dad sang opera and played piano and we were exposed to classical music at early ages, I’ve always been a fan of Ian Anderson’s brilliant work in Jethro Tull and Chris Wood in traffic, also much of the flute work in Jazz, I’ve been itching to take up the flute for some time now, and after watching Tatianna’s videos I’m sure I will, and I’ll watch her videos repeatedly as they are both informative and entertaining, and she’s such a baby doll (what we call a pretty girl here in the south) 😍😍😍
Once i switched from guitar to flute becouse the sheetmusic was easier to read ! Nowadays its pure love
The harp is first to me but the flute is a close second
austin together they are a complete winner!
Hehe I play both. 😍
Faith and I (Faith is the name of my Flute) agree with you Tatiana, yet, (in my humble opinion), you forgot to mention two essential aspects of our Instrument:
*1st:* It is the closest in expression to the Human Voice and ...
*2nd:* Its sound is just ... Heavenly, as a Solo Instrument and increasingly when you add 1 or 2 or 3 Flutes, the Timbre, the Harmony, the Beauty, SPECIALLY in a Two, Three or Four Part Counterpoint ... again ... just Absolutely Heavenly.
Another awesome video by one of the most awesome Lass/Flutist/Teacher I know.
God Bless
#3, #4 and “No Transposing”are the reason flute is quickly moving up the ranks of instruments I love to practice.
Great video, made me laugh 😆 I don’t play the flute but have seriously been thinking about it and watching this video is REALLY making me want to learn 😊
Do it, do it, do it… 🤪🤩
@@TheFlutePractice If I can find a teacher, I definitely will 🤩
Learn it.
Now.
loved this video :) my flute is called Florence or Flo if he's feeling jazzy. I have Frank the fiddle (or Vincent the violin depending on style played/mood he's in) and i also have Helga the harp on her way!!
Oh I was going to name my flute Florence! I went with Juliet though :)
I am a working pianist. I am so glad that you named your instruments. Well, my digital piano’s name is Anna after a girl I knew back when I was going to high school. Let me tell you she is a piece of work but it is a joy to play her. The flute name is awesome. Got to love your flute. Pretty awesome that you name your instruments. The sound that a flute makes is that much more beautiful I think than the instrument I play. Yea. Piano can bee a nice instrument to hear but really it is more serious where as a flute is such a beautiful sound it is like heaven and so is the harp actually. With a piano you can’t really say that. Hahaha. I love the fact that you named your harp Helga. What a great Mae for a harp. And the names for all your other instruments is awesome. At one time before getting the digital piano I did have a synthesizer and her name was gladdis. She was a good synthesizer but I love the digital piano better cause she has a full keyboard. But the thing with the pianos at work now, no. I don’t name those. Those are just baby grands or concert grand pianos but the piano at home she is digital and her name is Anna. She is actually kind of a boss to play. She thinks she is hte boss actually she don’t like to have anyone else play with her. It is just her making all those instruments. She thinks she is the stuff. She is loud and very expressive. Barks at me when I am playing her with the roads electric piano and screams with guitars. She can bee soft but she is loud proud mean machine. I get her to sing all the time and she listens to every one of my commands. She is a piece of work to play but she loves me as i boss her around. Sometimes I will go to her when i start playing he and i will say. “Alright you piece of work lets go.” Yea. This girl thinks that she is the boss. Even though sometimes she can bee a bit of a jerk I do cherish her and play her every day when i am not working. She does get her attention and well attended to. But that is the story behind miss Anna the digital piano. She comes across big, bossy and sassy. She has no problems expressing herself playing her is like fighting with someone. She likes to work hard and bee played hard actually. Unlike the acoustics i play at work. You got fight her kind of to play her.but at the end of hte day she knows that she is the boss. When i am playing her she is well heard by everyone. I even will let her get a bit jazzy as well as she does play jazz very well. But yea. She actually is very intimidating I would shay she is a pretty girl. She is big bad and intimidating and a boss. At the end of the day she knows it too.
Oh my gosh that is so awesome. Actually a flute name is great Juliette. Actually shows your flute to bee a jule. I am a working pianist and I don’t ever name the pianos at work when I go and perform, but my digitla’s name is Anna. Yea. She is a piece of work and she loves to bee loud and show herself. She is expressive and direct just like me. Great flute name. Flutes are jewls.and nobody can say differently hahahaha. I woul not really say a piano is a jewel. No I am sorry. It is a jerk and it loves to bee intimidating though the sound of it can come across as beautiful but it is a deceiving instrument. The piano actually is an intimidating and jerk instrument. It for sure is not the jewel of instruments. It looks big bad bossy and intimidating. It is all sprawled out over a stage and takes up room. The piano loves to take up space and it is not easily moved. Even a digital is freaking heavy. Not like a precious jewel like the flute. The flute is a jem and it is like that girl who wants to stay with you for ever and she is happy to bee in your lap if you want to rest with her in between playing her. She is delicate and she is a jule we can’t say that about the piano. Yea. The piano is all shiny but it just comes across as “I am the boss!!! I am huge big and bad and I like to sprawl out everywhere this is nobody’s space but mine I take this space!!!” That is kind of the attitude of the piano. Hahaha the flute doesn’t have that attitude at all. Plus the attitude of the piano is you can’t bee to close to it or to far. You have to spend time with it and you get demanded as a pianist to play for last minute gigs sometimes also with family if they know that you are a pianist then you are asked to play for background a lot because they know they have you. So really a piano is kind of an unforgiving instrument and really is kind of a jerk. May look shiny on the outside but what happens behind all of need other movers to help you with it you can’t play it late at night or you will annoy the hell out of everyone unles you have a digital but still even then people will hear the clunk of the keys. So digitals too they are kind of clunky but all in all and i am talking about my instrument hahahaha it is a pain in the ass hahahahahaha. The flute you don’t have to talk about it that way though. She is always wanting to bee picked up and loved. She is really a jule. Nope can’t say that about my instrument. Hahahahaha.this is a lot of owrk. You have to keep it maintained and tuned you can not transport it yourself. You
If only learning was as much fun as listening to this lovely lady: 🇬🇧
I started on Native American flute in 2007. As some may know the note range is limited. That is why I'm also working on concert flute. I don't think I would put one above the other.
Preciousss? Not so much like Gollum, more like Smaug. All that silver, gold and platinum...
LouisBertrandTech very good point! I’ll try my dragon voice next but it could get a bit scary...even for me😂
Very funny. A good practice break.
Im a recorder player... I the way you hurt that recorder hurt me too xd
I joined my school band (online sadly) and got flute! I’ve wanted to play for awhile but it was never a option unless I got personal lessons which are like a hour away from me... so I’m so excited!!
I definitely started learning the flute because it looked so pretty and sounded so soothing ! ❤
Tuning a stringed instrument is way easier and more efficient than learning the subtleties of producing an in-tune note on a wind instrument!
The struggle is real. Esp on baroque flute.
portable? laughs in harmonica
The viola is badass. I play strings. Love it. Been playing flute for 3 days. loving my progress and the instrument even more than I have ever before. NO REEDs!!!
It's so funny because many of the reasons listed were my reasons for having chosen the flute!! Haha! 😂 And I play the violin too.
OH YEAH, I LOVE IT. Great video Tatiana. 😍👍❤
I started the flute as a kid because I saw someone smiling while playing it so I thought they must really enjoy it. Turns out you have to smile ...
2:06-2:09) My thought process when choosing the flute 🤭
OMG! I don’t play the flute, but after watching this video, I just might have to give it a try. Love the video.
11) with a lot of practice you have so many collerful tunes.
12) you can learn to play this instrument when you are an adult and grow old with it and still play because you don’t have to build up such a high tension in your system like brassplayers have to.
12) it’s a good mirror for how you’re doing. Not always fun.. bad day really bad flute playing 😅
13) well I really love the flute. And playing any instrument 🎷 📯🎸🪗🪕🎻🪇🪘🎹 is SOOOOO GOOD FOR YOUR BRAIN!!
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 these are great points 11.12 and 13 😁😁😁😁 it really is a mirror! Teaches me so much about myself and my mind and body!
Gurl u making me second guess playing cello. Like i don't wanna carry that thing anymoreeee.😥
Yes its true that you say, and my should is that flute possible tune in A 432hz for meditation and cimatic good frequency for filosophy Giuseppe Verdi. I love 432hz but impossible with modern flute play to tune, but is only one standard tune to 440hz or 442hz, and the american music '60 '70 tune 438hz maybe possible play,
I say I play it cause of the beautiful sound but the actual reason is I had a toy flute that I tried to play when I was younger
Hehe…it got you there and that’s what matters!
@@TheFlutePractice yes it did
you helped me buy a flute today. so pumped. thanks
Ocarina:
Fits in pants pocket, can be painted and stamped at soctumized! What is reeds? (Self tought ^^') It is one piece of clay, so there is no plastik thingy! Also no tverry loud^^ Also sounds good (Ocarina of time, Ocarina madley exist people!) Even less holes to learn than a recorder XD Lowest maintanance ever! Spit is trapped inside and can easily evaporate. So we good^^ We could play everywhere too and depending on moddle, we would be the star of the show! My littl eclay potato not so much... It's cute! Ever thought an instrument cute? Mine is!
Hahaha... these are good points. I think a flute ocarina showdown is in order!
@@TheFlutePractice I would love to help with that but I'm bad and probably live a little to far away XD
TATIANA YOU'RE CRAZY THANKS FOR THE VIDEO.
It takes work to get it sounding right, but the flute is truly a beautiful sound.
If you're looking for a wind instrument "that's relatively accessbile and easy to play," that would be the recorder you threw over your shoulder. It has a serious Classical repertoire and is also good for medieval, Renaissance, and folk music, as well as contemporary pieces. A quality student instrument is cheaper than a comparable flute, it's more comfortable/ergonomic to play (assuming you're talking an alto or soprano), and is easier for most people to get a good tone out of at first.
Also, you're not spitting into a recorder, unless you're playing it entirely wrong. It's condensation buildup, just like you see in a flute. And you don't suck it in, you blow it out.
Anyway, I try to play whatever instruments I can get my hands on, including flute--why limit yourself? :)
The reason I play it is my band master designated me in woodwinds. Funny thing, I always wanted to be in the brass section
I agreed with you Taliana that the flute the best and most beautiful instrument and I guess one of the oldest instruments. I have no experience on flute. Just bought one for the beginner. I’m hard of hearing and wear hearing aids. I will like to become friends with you Taliana🙂😍
Tony Hernandez good luck with your journey! Sounds really exciting. Where are you based?
I’m based in Coral Gables,Florida (Miami) Taliana.😍
I laughed so hard all over the video. You are so funny! But what you said was RIGHT! :))
best thing about the flute is that it is expression of both air control and hand dexterity
You Are Absolutely Right The Flute Is So Beautiful. Could You Give Me Flute Lessons?I’d Love To Learn How To Play It. I Regret Not Learning It In High School. And I Wish I Could Learn How To Play It Now.
The Flute is an independent woodwind
She/he don’t need any reeds
Also my Flutes name is : Wendy Woodwind 😊
I really was laughing all the way through this, you certainly cheered me up. I think I'm gonna have to get a flure 😀
Thanks for an entertaining video! I was right with you and laughed a lot! And I AGREE with you on most everything. Concerning spit, I often end up with a wet thigh from setting my flute on it, and I often blow through it (like brass players) to empty it of too much moisture. But no big deal. I'm so glad I chose a flute!!
this video is the best i ever watch, i will save for replay in the future.
Haha, enjoyed your humour...😁
I wish I'd see this earlier! I laughed at #1 because the very first thing that came to my mind was that I can get it on a plane without anticipating a knock-down-drag-out with the gate agent! 😀
Im about to start flute, your videos are brilliant!! Thank you :D