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 Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:44 pm
I'm starting my last year of middle school and probably my last year of band too (( sad )), so I want to play as best as I can this year.
I need to know how to play louder and how to hold the notes longer.
Help!!!
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Posted: Tue Aug 11, 2009 9:54 pm
Well to play louder, you can use more air. What also helps a bit in my schools band is to make your ombiture (i dont know how to spell that) a bit bigger. It will make the notes deeper but if you turn the head away from you a bit it helps with that. It will take some time to get used to the ombiture change but you will get it after a bit. As for the longer notes. Ask your band director if they know any breathing excersizes. It sounds weird but it helps a lot.
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Posted: Sat Aug 15, 2009 5:50 pm
I totally agree. As weird as it sounds breathing exercises really help with note length and it can also help with playing louder as you will be able to put more air through your flute
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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 6:55 pm
breathe from your stomach.
like when you feel like you're running out of air...keep pushing you should feel your abs tighten up.
smaller ambiture(sp?) and colder air helps to make higher and louder notes. ex. high G, F, and E.
holding your head up helps!!!
for lower notes, wider ambiture(sp?), and hotter air.
TONGUEING(sp?) HELPS A LOT!!!
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Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2009 7:02 pm
Tongue.
Work your aumbiture. pout you lips out like your kissing, it helps for high notes. letting your aumbiture slack a bit, by widening the hole your lips make help to produce lower notes.
posture has a lot to do with it as well. Sit up straight, keep you head straight, and relax your shoulders and neck, it helps for breathing.
other then that to work for breathing, take a huge breath with your shoulders relaxed and make short ts sounds with you teeth together. make three, and then let the rest of your air go through the ts, which will sound like a hiss. try to make you air last 15 to 20 seconds. if you don't make at least ten, your letting too much air go too fast. keep changing the time. add one five seconds and see if you can go five seconds longer each time. it helps strengthen your diaphragm, which helps with playing flute and singing, but mainly just breathing in general.
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Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 11:32 am
yeah all u have to do is close your embochore a little and blow alot more are
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