Simple Techniques for playing Native American Drone Flutes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ก.พ. 2018
- In this video you can learn a few simple techniques for playing any Native American Drone Flute. Follow along and feel free to check us out online at www.bluebearflutes.com!
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I am watching you from Turkey. You are a great teacher. Thank you for passing on what you know with all your kindness🙏🏻
🙏🙂🙏 Thank you for watching! Please check out my other videos!
I love explaining to people that they don't have to leave a hole covered. I started my flute making journey on shakuhachi's so I was making native American flutes with 5 holes 20 years ago purely by instinct. I love your spirit Charlie. Lacquers are for slackers.
🙏🏼🙂😅 Thank you!
Extremely helpful! Thank you for having so many informational videos, for everyone from beginners to experienced musicians, and everyone in between! Blessings
You're welcome! Thank you for watching! Still waiting on the email mentioned in my last reply. 🙂
Having met Hawk Littlejohn in my earlier flute journeys, I am reminded of him. He was a great teacher, fabricator, artist and player. Nobody is exactly alike but sharing many traits and qualities, I am enjoying your videos.
Glad you like them. Thanks for watching!
Great video Charlie. Thank you for all you do! God Bless!
Your sound is *wonderful *~Golden brown. ❤🐾💥🌟
I’m gaining a greater appreciation of the drone flute thanks to your videos.
I love your t-shirt!! And I have the backpacker drone flute which I am loving but still practicing .
I just got one of your flutes and I love it so much♥️♥️♥️♥️ this video really helped me
Most excellent! More videos are on the way! Be ready for them! 🙂
Much gratitude for your instructional videos on your drone flute techniques.A player of the traditional style . A new world of imagination has thrived since I've tried the white cedar # c I purchased nearly 10 months ago.Very satisfied and considering another drone in lower key#
Thanks for the feedback Steven! I bet you would probably very much enjoy our F sharp drone or a fifth drone. The fifth drone is definitely my favorite!
MUCH RESPECT Maestro
Thank you!
I’m starting to love the drone...🧙♂️🦅
It is a great gift!
Fantastic video! I love the backdrop/setting!!!!
Thanks! I like that background too.
He always has cool backgrounds and T-shirts! :-)
incredibly mesmerising
Thank you my friend! 🙂
I have one of his backpacker drones in key of B, which I have owned for little more than a year. It is well made. I like the low profile design, which helps with transporting on my hikes as well on my bike. Has a nice tone and both sides are in tune (which is more than I can say for some of my other drones purchased elsewhere). Good little drone.
Thanks my friend!
Fantastic! (btw, -very much enjoying my A-scale flute from BlueBearFlutes! Best!)
Thanks my friend! There's a lot you can do with it! Am/CM are the most common scales with lots of music!
Love watching your videos.
Articulation is how the instrumentalist would describe the technique and syllables used to starts of notes. Release is how the back sides of the note would be described.
Maybe diction from a vocalist stand point.
Gracias Charlie
Charlie, I am curious as to what languages you speak. I love your videos, and am going to buy a drone flute around the first when I get paid.
The seperateing of the notes is called toungeing. I am pretty sure all wind intruments use it (flute, oboe, clarinet, sax, etc). And when you only tap on the first note, you do a slur. Starting and stopping it is double toungeing (da ka). There is also triple toungeing (ka da ka, ka da ka, etc) and flutter toungle (vibrate your throat simularly to gargleing. It creates a "fluttering" note)
Hey Jaime! Thank you very much for pointing all of this out. I am certainly familiar with all of it as I am a concert trained musician myself however many of our viewers are lay persons and would rather read tablature than notes. For this reason we have always tried to cater to everyone. There are always challenges! In any case, thanks for mentioning and for watching our videos! Have a wonderful day!
No attempt to be rude and I appreciate you being willing to take a stab at it Jaime, but vibration of the throat in any wind instrument is a growl. Flutter tonguing is as it is described, the fluttering of the tongue at a rapid rate (similar to a double tongue but more on the lines of blowing against a reed or blade of grass to create a vibration). Many instrumentalist substitute the growl for a flutter, I do because my fat tongue simply won’t move that fast.
Double tonguing requires a consistent flow of air that is interrupted by the tongue using syllables such as tu-ku-tu-ku or duh-guh-duh-guh.
Mr Charlie are you planning on doing Pan Flautes (Zamponas)...I don't know a place here in the US that build legit and tuned pan flutes
My experience in music is built around choir singing and reading sheet music, but recently I've developed an interest in wind instruments. I'm not able to play a reed or lip-tip (trumpet) because of a life long jaw deformity. I toyed with the idea of mirliton instruments (vibrating disc like a kazoo), but that seems like cheating since the voice produces tone instead of the instrument - so instead I've decided on flutes.
My inspiration is a wood train whistle with four tubes, each tube producing a different note. I've tried playing the tubes separately by covering the whistle ports at the head end, but the shape of the whistle body makes this difficult. The sound the four tubes produce together is pleasant, and the wood resounds smoothly as compared to metal or plastic. My likeness for this layered sound has led me to consider a drone flute, much like yours.
I've also learned thru studying, that drone (two tube) flutes are a rarety, and usually custom made. So with that I decided to fashion my own, but didn't have a clue of how to tune one - so back to studying! Finally I've decided on a 4x3 hole pattern - the left tube (4 holes) tuned to B,C,E, and F, with the right tube (3 holes) tuned to A, D, and G. I'm still trying to work out if, and where, semitone holes shud be for each tube. The finished flute (hopefully) shud allow me to drone any note desired while fingering other notes in melody.
I stumbled across your videos while studying others relating to hole positioning. Not only have I picked up pointers on tuning, but methods of play which I hadn't considered.. You are a credit to your craft, and an encouragement to viewers - thank you.
Thanks for your kind words! In our business, drones aren't a rarity, they're everyday business! :) I sometimes do some experimentation myself, though usually I stick with what works and is tried and true. Good luck with making your flute. We have hundreds of videos that can help out. If you ever decide you want a "done for you" version that is already in tune and made by a 33-year skilled craftsman at the least price on the web, let me know!
ah Man this sounds so sweet! How long is the shipping time to the UK?
Right now we are at about seven to ten days production time and arrival time in the UK would be 7 to 10 days after that. We do have a note on our website that we try to accommodate those with a rush. Please read our shipping information.
@@BlueBearFlutes Thanks well just so you know My 'great uncle twice removed is celebrating his 40th birthday' very soon so it would be great if i could have one asap Haha. Seriously i will order one right now but the fastest possible lead time would gratefully appreciated.
@@soulopticc got it! Thanks for your order!
Does the back hole need to stay covered at all times?
Definitely not, otherwise I would have never drilled it! 😅
Hi Charlie is this the A drone .
It is. 🙂
@@BlueBearFlutes Thank you
You bet my friend! Thanks for watching!
Do you sell these?
Did you watch either my intro or outro?
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bluebearflutes.com
@@BlueBearFlutes I skipped the intro lol
@dustinvines5017 and the outro? 🤣 I usually go on for 10 minutes about how people ask me if we sell these, and I'm like "yeah, it's in the intro, outro and description!"
I think Im blowing bad my flute because it doesn't sound like that
We do have lessons available through our website if you need to know more about how to play the flute! You will also find quite a few more videos on this TH-cam channel! Thanks for watching.