Easy high notes on the flute
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Learn how to play your high notes on the flute effortlessly!
I'm astounded that this has reached and helped so many people! Please, if this has helped you, or you have a question, leave a comment below! I have officially retired from teaching flute lessons, however, I'm still ocassionally uploading videos here. If you have a question on a video you'd like me to address, drop a comment below!
I found the tip about puffing out the cheeks really helpful - that combined with making lots of space in the mouth made a very noticeable difference. Thank you for that tip.
Delighted to hear this Steve! Thank you for the feedback. This changed the way I played as well, I fought it for a long time and then did some experimentation and I realized I was making everything way more difficult than it needed to be. Flute should be easy, high notes as well. Best of luck and thanks for the comment!
The puffing out worked so well! I can finally play A6 and B6! Thank you so much
SO glad to hear that! It was an absolute game changer for me too! Takes some courage but if you can approach it with fun, it's less scary and more exciting. Congrats!
Thank you for presenting this topic. I have been able to play the first 2 octaves so far.
so glad to hear it!
Thank you so much Angela - just watched your video & I’ve played top B for the first time ever! You really are a fab teacher. Shame I live in U.K or I’d definitely be coming to you for lessons. Thanks again for sharing your amazing wisdom. Love & light Maureen xxxxx
Thank you for your kind words! I do Skype lessons if you are ever interested. www.musicstrong.muaicteachershelper.com. All the best to you!
You are a VERY good teacher! I'm a total beginner and this helped so much. Thank you for taking the time to help us out.
Absolutely! Let me know if you have any other questions or would like to see any other topics addressed.
Glad to hear it and best of luck to you as you learn!
Hi Angela,
This has really helped Me as I have just started learning the Flute.
Only using the Headjoint at the moment, with My palm over the end I could get a low note and high, but with no palm over the end I could only blow a low note.
With this technique, I can now get both notes without the palm over the headjoint ! Thank You.
Just got to practice this now, then add the rest of the Flute.
Regards Paul.
paul reeve I'm delighted to hear that, thank you for the feedback!
I went through a very difficult time last year with my flute. I had it overhauled by a flute specialist, and basically they stuffed it up, leading to a very rough year of straining my embouchure to get any sort of decent sound. (It's a pretty expensive procedure in Australia, and I was only able to afford it recently)
As a result, I've been ironing out problems (specifically top octave F# and above) pitch and tone problems, but nothing was working.
Anyway, I watched your video, and have been working on the exercises (specifically the puffy cheeks exercise) and there has been an almost immediate improvement in my top registers pitch and tone. Thankyou so much. I'll also be sure to pass this knowledge onto my peers and students :)
I'm delighted to hear this!! Please let me know how it goes!
Great! You are a lovely teacher. Thank you.
Glad it helped, thanks for giving feedback!
Thanks very much and thanks for watching!
It works so well thank you so much
Glad to hear that and thanks for watching!
gr8 video. helped a lot
Thank you Nicole, glad to help!
This helped so much thanks
I'm glad to hear it!
Glad to hear it and thanks for watching!
Thank you so much! It helped me!
blueheavencat so glad to hear it!!
Thanks that helped soooooooooo much ! Thank you
You are very welcome, best of luck!
So glad to hear it Aalyiah
This is a good method!
That was so helpful! I was pinching to try to get high A and B, I get the A now without having to pinch, the B is kind of hard, it comes out occasionally but I'll work on it! Thank you so much!
I'm so glad it helped, thank you for the feedback! I'll be mostly posting under my business, so if you want to follow that as well, I should be doing more videos soon. 3rd octave B can be kind of difficult, but remember, if you fight the flute you lose, so just relax and pretend like you're blowing out birthday candles, you can refine the air stream from there. Let me know how it goes!
Lien Ly I'm having trouble getting the G.... is that bad ?
Just keep working on it you'll finally get the G! Everybody struggles at some point so no worries!
Nope, not bad at all, like Lien says, everyone struggles and some days we have good day where everything is easy, some days not so easy. You'll find your way just keep at it!
Exactly!
Hi Angela:
Last six months have been struggle to learn how to play the flute again.I love to playing of my flute. I have play for many years. For what ever reason I stop playing for over 10 years. Last year I wanted to play. I try so hard. Well everything went wrong. The flute dry up. My fingers harden up. My lips just refused cooperate. Friends telling me is like riding a bicycle.... No, Playing a flute are not like riding a bicycle. There's a whole series of how to generate the air pressure. Delivering the air to the flute. And relax fingers and muscle memory. Its use to be, by put a little music it my head and play.
Well I send my flute in for rebuilt. As the flute sitting in the shop. I purchasing a good Yamaha flute. It is so easy and nice to play until I got my old flute back. Then I realize the Yamaha turn out to be the worst instrument for me. It was bright and position. but not as musical. Its sounds like I join the matching band. Now I have my old flute/baby back. Yes it require more effort to play.But, it is Music, it is soft and delightful.....
It's been one year. Your short lesson on how to play your high notes effortlessly was exactly what I needed. I Watch the lesson over and over. It took some time. But, I am playing again.
Thank you so much Angela.Thank you for your give. God bless you.
Hi Angela! That was of great help to me. I wear brackets and I am having such a hard time to play hight notes. I will keep practicing your ideas as I recognized myself when you mentioned the tensing of the mouth and lips. Do you have any tips for those of us who wear brackets? My treatment is intended to make my uper teeth go backwards, so it´s hard to let the air go in a straight line and not just anywhere around :S
Hi Deborah - I understand! I had braces as well, but by the time I got them off, my tone had gotten BETTER with them than without, so fear not! The biggest pieces of advice I can tell you is to keep your mouth relaxed. When you pinch on the flute...you lose and the flute wins. You cannot "muscle out" notes on the flute, you have to use your air. Make sure you aren't pushing the flute into your teeth, but rather pushing out with your right thumb and in with your left hand, then just use your chin and pinky to stabilize. Have you tried puffing out your cheeks?
Thank you Angela! One thing I always do is pushing the flute towards me, that's one thing I have to improve. I just got my upper brackets taken out last week, and at least in my case it is getting easier to play higher notes. Puffing out my cheeks, has helped too, thank you for that advise! It is difficult to keep them puffed out but I guess it's just something I have to keep working on. Thank you again!
This is awesome thnx so much
Thank you Tara and thanks for watching!
Thanks.Please make a video how to do play fast on flute.Sorry i can badly speak English
I did this video for piccolo, but it applies to flute as well! th-cam.com/video/8jO6Q7KnR2o/w-d-xo.html
6:48 "Guess what that means? It means that you're a brass player now!"
¿Es que acaso nadie está en condiciones de hacer subtítulos en español para que todos podamos entender? Gracias.
Lo siento, no sé cómo, pero eso es un gran consejo y voy a mirar en él!
Thanks for your concern. I would like to share my "small" history on flute: Because of pyorrhea about 32 years ago I lost all my teeth and I had to wear full dentures . For that reason I could not continue studying the flute: all my teachers and colleagues told me that having lost all my teeth had to study another instrument , piano or guitar, for example. Today, I'm 67 years old and since 7 months ago I have been traying again the breath and I've already managed to get to the lower notes. From now on I will try to get some skills in fingering , and so I am showing all the negative opinions I got in 1984 were wrong. It was just start from "zero". And now when I'm a very old man I realize all the time I have lost and all the joy I could not experience. (Please forgive my poor, ugly English because i'm a Spanish speaker).