I just started playing alto recorder and am just trying to play all the notes in series to get used to the fingerings (for reference, I am a flute player). I seem to be unable to hit this F as easily as I hit the E (as in, it sounds a lot lower. is this the point where I should blow harder to play harmonics? Does my question even make any sense?
So I really don’t know what to do. My teacher has given me Autumn Leaves to learn on flute, and I expect he wants some results by the time we next see each other (in three weeks).
The problem is, I know NOTHING about jazz flute, improv, and I’m lacking general theory knowledge. I can’t even tell you what notes are in the chords. Am I supposed to play only the notes in the chords? How do I figure out what notes can be played over everything? What do I do with rhythm?
So in essence, I am clueless. Any tips would be so impossibly helpful.
So I am currently trying to learn how to circular breathe, but it seems I am perpetually stuck at Exercise 4 on Robert Dicks book. Basically, what he is asking you to do is isolate the air in your mouth (Im pretty sure I do this part okay) and puff up your cheeks (starting with a closed mouth), then try and play a short note on the flute using your cheeks to push the air out. I just cant seem to get a note out on the flute no matter what I try. Does anybody have any tips?
so I’m thinking of looking at a few sections of the Great Train Race (it‘s above my level, but I just want to try a few sections for now). How on Earth does one do the low double tongueing at the start? My sheet music has it on a low D, as I don’t have a B flute. Whenever I try, it sounds very breathy. I also can’t get my double tonguing above 120 for the life of me, so any tips on how to get that faster would also be very much appreciated.
So I am not a beginner at flute - been playing for like five years, and play repertoire from anywhere from grade 4 to the occasional grade 7 piece. I practice a lot and for long. Personally, I would say I sound decent.
The problem is, I will play through a piece and think I did fine, but when I listen back to it, everything is just terribly. My breathing is awkward, my tone sucks, everything is just wrong. It really discourages me.
Is there anything I can do?
So I am fairly new to piano, self taught up to now (started a few months ago) but I recently got one of the older students at my school to start teaching me.
So she has given me the Bach Prelude in C to work on. The only thing is, the sheet music I have has a lot of dynamics. I am just really struggling with playing the softer sections without compromising smoothness and tempo.
Does anyone have any tips?
So I am supposed to play Libertango (Piazolla, probably misspelt his name) in a concert in a little under a week’s time. (on flute). But I am starting to get a bit worried.
So I have only had one flute lesson with my teacher this term so far, because of public holidays and sickness and stuff, so it was pretty much up to me to learn the piece on my own. I am probably about 85% there. But I fear the guitar accompaniment may be difficult, and I worry if we will be able to play together, because we only have one practice next week. Just stressful for the timing.
So just in case, is there possibly any solo flute pieces I can learn just in case? I mean, no accompaniment of any kind, that I can comfortably learn in a week very easily. ChatGPT isn’t helping, as it keeps preaching Syrinx, Voice, and Density 21.5. Personally, I currently have my eye on Cantabile from the Bach Partita in A.
Sorry for the text wall, but I’m basically looking for solo flute pieces that are slow and lyrical without hard semiquaver sections I can very comfortably learn in a week.
So I am looking to maybe make some arrangements of songs in my spare time. But I have no idea where to start. I’m thinking of doing slightly more niche stuff like Lilith Max and Epic, rather than the 110th Fate of Ophelia arrangement.
Firstly, what instrument do I arrange for? I know piano is probably the most common, but should I also arrange stuff for like flute and violin? Or should I do very uncommon instruments (for example, the nyckelharpa).
Secondly, if I do end up doing piano, do people like a vocal line, or do they like the melody in the right hand?
Thirdly, how many markings do I need? (As in dynamics, bowing, phrasing, stuff like that).
Fourthly, do I make the arrangements for solo instruments or try doing weird stuff like duets?
Fifthly, how much should I worry about playability (as in, for example Vivaldi Summer is absolutely brutal on flute because fingerings don’t make sense on the instrument).
Sixthly, how difficult and complex should the arrangements be? For example, just playing chords and the melody in the right hand means you lose a LOT of the complexity of the song like rhythm, countermelodies etc. But, on the other hand, I’ve also seen an arrangement where the entire melody was played with chords in the right hand and a left hand I won’t even get started on, so that was far too difficult and too complex.
Lastly, does anyone possibly have any tips? I don’t really know where to get started at all.