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 Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:19 pm
SullenFever98 Bb Bb C Bb Eb D Bb Bb C Bb F Eb Bb Bb Bb(8va) G Eb Eb D C Ab Ab G Eb F Eb You should know the rhythm And I was about to do GGAGCB. xd I don't need my piano or flute to dictate tunes. o_o I guess it's a matter of knowing your intervals. xp And we flutes are bad enough to tune as a section in band, with about 10 of us. >>; Don't want to imagine piccolos. xd
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Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:28 pm
netsumi RinoaHeartilly netsumi does anyone know any good tips for improving tone quality??? I want to get better REALLY bad, the band I'm in is way out of my league and I feel so left out...v.v tone? what's wrong with your tone? err... that is, if you can describe it...? sweatdrop Hmm. Do you have a teacher? Ask them. Try Practice Books for the Flute, Part One, Tone by Trevor Wye. I'm using it, find it pretty good. Err, I recommend you check the tuning first. Make sure it's a good sound. If that sounds OK, maybe you're not holding the note well. Don't move your lips or change the air flow- keep everything the same. Don't cover the mouthpiece too much. Hold your right arm up to a reasonable height. Hope that helps. xp
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Posted: Thu Feb 24, 2005 10:36 pm
netsumi RinoaHeartilly netsumi does anyone know any good tips for improving tone quality??? I want to get better REALLY bad, the band I'm in is way out of my league and I feel so left out...v.v tone? what's wrong with your tone? err... that is, if you can describe it...? sweatdrop
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:53 am
Tara~Puget27 netsumi RinoaHeartilly netsumi does anyone know any good tips for improving tone quality??? I want to get better REALLY bad, the band I'm in is way out of my league and I feel so left out...v.v tone? what's wrong with your tone? err... that is, if you can describe it...? sweatdrop Hehe, no one can play just like that at first. whee You just don't know how you're meant to blow. I spent ages blowing hard at it to no avail and eventually started getting sounds directing the air stream right. xd
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 7:44 am
fire_eyez Tara~Puget27 netsumi RinoaHeartilly netsumi does anyone know any good tips for improving tone quality??? I want to get better REALLY bad, the band I'm in is way out of my league and I feel so left out...v.v tone? what's wrong with your tone? err... that is, if you can describe it...? sweatdrop Hehe, no one can play just like that at first. whee You just don't know how you're meant to blow. I spent ages blowing hard at it to no avail and eventually started getting sounds directing the air stream right. xd They say if you roll your mouthpiece while you're playing, you can improve tone quality. Roll away if your flat, towards you if you're sharp, I think. The first time I picked up a flute, I held it the wrong way! I held it to my left side and not my right, when I realized how it was really held I felt like such an idiot. Again, for your tone, practice your emboucure(can't spell that, sorry). Tighten it up, or loosen, whatever feels comfortable.
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:38 am
Me and my friend Jessie were trying to play our flutes while holding them to our left before xd It hurt out wrist, but we could play quite well. 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:39 pm
Dudes-I am on a bit of a high as i just got into the semi-finals of Young Musician in school!!! anyone else do competitions like that? anyway- noone has any sympathy for the fact that has some sort of repetative strain injury on the third and little finger of my right hand because the piece i play has absolutely tonnes of "D E F# D E" combinations of demi-semi-quavers!!! ouch! only my fellow flute players can undertand the pain...... Next thursday i have the day from hell- Two GCSE exams, a maths mid-year exam, YM semi-finals, and then A theory of Music exam. that was completely boring stuff to read that i just had to get out of my system. sorry. Quote: netsumi wrote: does anyone know any good tips for improving tone quality??? I want to get better REALLY bad, the band I'm in is way out of my league and I feel so left out...v.v Try chord (???) thingymajiggles (i can never remember what they are called) as in-start on middle C (low C for us) and then blow a bu=it harder until you get another not higher up (I think its a Bb) and then again and again until you run out of breath! My tone used to be pants but i play them every time before i practice and it gradually got better! Another thing is that the mouth piece may be wrong for you, if you are serious about the flute, trade yours in and get another one. thats what I did and it really did work! xxx
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 2:01 pm
I believe, in order to improve tone, u hav to practice alot. I mean alot. Also try to make the lips tight, but not too tight. Loose lips will cause the sound to be airy, tight lips will make it crack easily.
Floutist is a professional flute player, whereas flutist is an amatuer. For the piccolos, it's piccoloist. My teacher's a piccoloist at a Ballet Symphony so I should know that at the least.
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 4:58 pm
xD Our band director got a woodwind tutor and we each have a private lesson every two weeks. Right now, we're actually working on improving our tone. xD What we do is called a diaphragm study. Start on high G, about 100 BPM. Play high G (whole note) slurred to high F sharp (whole note). Take a breath. High F sharp (whole) to high F (whole). And go all the way down the chromatic scale that way. I've only done it a few times and it really helped to improve my tone already. whee
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Posted: Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:25 pm
aw, thanks a whole bunch ^__^ I think my biggest problem is I need to be able to hold my breath longer and/or not use so much air on one note...but I guess that's something you can only accomplish through practice, huh? sweatdrop
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 3:58 am
netsumi aw, thanks a whole bunch ^__^ I think my biggest problem is I need to be able to hold my breath longer and/or not use so much air on one note...but I guess that's something you can only accomplish through practice, huh? sweatdrop Heh, me too. whee Don't blow all of it all as hard as you can, that'd just make you dizzy. Breathe out slowly and evenly too. xp
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 6:01 am
fire_eyez netsumi aw, thanks a whole bunch ^__^ I think my biggest problem is I need to be able to hold my breath longer and/or not use so much air on one note...but I guess that's something you can only accomplish through practice, huh? sweatdrop Heh, me too. whee Don't blow all of it all as hard as you can, that'd just make you dizzy. Breathe out slowly and evenly too. xp even when I try not to blow too hard it seems like I'm always running out of air xd
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 6:23 am
netsumi aw, thanks a whole bunch ^__^ I think my biggest problem is I need to be able to hold my breath longer and/or not use so much air on one note...but I guess that's something you can only accomplish through practice, huh? sweatdrop Breathe from your diaphram. You should fill your stomach with air. I had to do that too. Now, I can go for 4-5 measures without breathing. Well, if the song's Andante, I doubt it, but you know somewhere between Moderato and Allegro
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 9:24 am
netsumi aw, thanks a whole bunch ^__^ I think my biggest problem is I need to be able to hold my breath longer and/or not use so much air on one note...but I guess that's something you can only accomplish through practice, huh? sweatdrop Do breathing exercises before you play. only thing is it makes you burp.... but it does improve yout breathing so you can v-long notes! xxx
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Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2005 10:47 am
I play Flute! My flute is my baby! There are only two flutes in my band. The other besides me is a cool Korean girl who hates green for some odd reason. The band director wears green a lot just to bug her. :p We've actually gotten most of the band to start calling her greeney. ^_^
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