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You did make me yawn when talking about yawns 🥱 Really useful tips, thanks! I'm still learning embouchure and the corners of my lips where getting so tired constantly. I'm happy to be able to get a sound without forcing those!

Bàrr na maidne dhuit, a Fhleasgach ghrinn.

Hi. I really like your way of explaining. I bought the flute. I will buy the first volume of your book. Thank you.

This is useful and interesting. Thanks.

Hi, I’ve just started learning Irish flute. I’ve played classical flute for a long time so the difference can feel really odd at times but I’m really enjoying it! Your videos have been super helpful. I have one question- when you do taps, do you tongue the note, or does the tapping take the place of tonguing entirely for that note?

Thanks, teach. It's the low B that I'm having a problem with getting a constant good sound. It's a silver flute with a b-foot joint. The low D is really really easy and even the low C. The low B is a killer for consistency.

Hup!

'promosm' 💖

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Very good id liketo get another practising time

I bought an Irish flute a while back and I was struggling to play it. After watching your video, I'm now off to a good start. Thank you very much!

Greetings from UK.Just like to add to the wonderful comments below.This is best demo of how to develop the emboucher for Irish Trad.I'm 74 and I must admit Ive bought nearly every make of flute there is.Olwell,Grinter plus original Prattons and Rudalls.I sold them all ss I could never get a consistent tone on the simple system.I have an Eric Juileret flute at the moment which i really like and through your demo I'm a getting a good consistant tone l.I have got your first book.Just wondering if you could do a lesson regarding the 'Off Beat' in Jigs and reels.Thanks for a wonderful lesson.Cheers Jim

Whoops. Also , I would like to buy yer book…glad to return the appreciation ( hoping it has some hitherto unknown tunes for me) but either way please lmk best path to that . Thanks again Leslie, keep the flute hot & best of days,sincerely yours, Brian.

So cool Leslie! Whenever I am tone-frustrated this video was (& is again )my go to for reminding me how big the role of the jaw & mouth shape is to intonation (internally too)it has really helped me to focus & keep themuscles engaged. Its really a great focus point,particularly after playing sets for dancers ( clare sets especially )you’ve such a calm yet firm approach & great advice & I wanted to let you know I am still grateful! I thanked you a few years ago because your videos helped my embtr. So much….overnight. I too

Thank you so. Extremely grateful .Very concise & clearly expressed .🪻

Nice tips. I've missed you, Leslie!

Lovely to see you back and making great clips!

Maestra.

The elongation of the nose concept is super powerful.

Super! Love it 😍❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

Very nice version!

As a flute player who really likes Irish music, I appreciate this. Tension is always such an issue in some areas of my body and face. This is very helpful!

Very helpful, thank you!

Lovely playing and good timing keep them comming

Beautiful and yes, I did yawn!

The few videos i've seen have led me to ask for your lesson schedule. Great pacing and content.

You are wonderful, and I really enjoy your videos. I play whistle and Uilleann pipes. I recently started on a concert flute, would you mind telling me the fingering for C Natural on concert flute? On whistle it is (usually) OXX OOO, but I am at a loss on the concert flute fingering. And I can’t see your fingers on this tune. Thank you…please make more videos!

This is incredible information. Thank you

Thanks very much. First video I've found that actually addresses the muscles used in the embouchure. Has helped me to understand this for the first time..

Unfortunately way too much talking. Great playing at the end. How far do i pull out to tune the flute. I have just started. I notices yours is not pulled out too far. So could you get me some tips, like how much in cms etc. Thanks.

❤ nice

these three tips were super helpful as a self learner dumb question but this is relevant to the entire range not just low D, correct?

adorable. Is this an 8 key classical flute? Do you ever actually use the keys? (I've heard some ppl say irish flute players never use them, but others say the opposite.)

Best embouchure lesson ever I had…. Thank you much, grateful & kindly regards, B.

Makes me proud to be part Irish and Scottish

Exellent tips ! I personally also favor the embouchure approach of the old master Marcel Moyse. What about the the positioning of your tongue and the space in your mouth when applying some tension in your cheeks ?

Thank you so much for this lesson! I've been trying lately to improve my low D on a new simple-system Irish flute I got a few months ago. Every new flute takes a while for your fingers and mouth to become accustomed, and I'm now at the point where it's all finally coming together. And thanks to your tips, i can immediately hear an improvement in my playing. Greatly appreciated.

It might be worth making a list of some of the flutes that allow you to get that deep resonant low D as many flutes can't do it no matter the embouchure. For example my hami will go very deep and very loud and allow a huge range of overblowing to the point of industrial abstract noise without ever wanting to go up a register. Its great for sessions and jazzy expressive playing but its extremely hard to make it sound "sweet" especially up high, although it can be done. Then my Rudall produces a super beautifully sweet tone effortlessly but lacks volume and will never produce that deep resonant D. It's perfect for recording but gets lost in the open sessions and good luck trying to overblow it to compensate as it will instantly pop into the upper register.

Great. But a bad lip day can happen to anyone.

This is genius! Thanks so much. Super helpful and made an instant difference to my tone 🙏

Amazing!

Very nice. Could you do a video about Glottals?

fantastic lesson, thank you so much for sharing this knoledge with everybody, much appreciated

Brilliant work, Leslie! I play a Colin Hamilton Irish flute and a Grenadilla Di Zhao Boehm flute--- and your 2nd tip (Direct with the Lower Jaw) changed my Low D almost instantly. Your tip helped make that note like a hard bottom D on the Uilleann Pipes.Many thanks and please Play On!

Hello! I have Playing Outside the Lines 1 which mentions tuning to a note other than A, and the notes on a simple flute which tend to be off. But I also saw your video somewhere that discussed this. I don’t think I see it here. Where can I find that?

Well, it certainly sounds like sweet briar!

Super useful, thank you so much for this. I've lost count the amount of times I've fallen asleep late at night and re-watched 🙃 That aside, love your clear instruction and friendly demeanour 👍🏽🙏🏽🌈

Hi very nice playing and really beautiful ornaments !! Do you have the sheet music for this piece?

Greetings from another flute player. I always struggle to get ornaments in concert flute, the thing about keys and pads is that there is a delay as you need to focus more energy on finger grip than the ornament itself, keyless flutes have the advantage of immediate responsive to anything. The best example is "Finger vibrato" a common thing on trad flute, recorder or tin whistle is virtually impossible at least you have a good level concert flute or if you send it to luthier very often. Anyway, is lovely the lot of half tones you can get from that instrument, you can give a lot of sharps or flat notes for some special passages of irish tunes. For example, for G minor or mixolydian tunes, as The dog among the bushes or Crabs in the skillet. Maybe also the G sharps for A major reels or jigs and so on... Even with my complains, i could not choose another instrument to love more than the flutes :)

This is fantastic! Thank you!