Fundamentals of flute breathing: breathing masterclass
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- Breathing is so often misunderstood and yet it is one of the most important aspects of playing the flute. We play a WIND instrument after all. In this video, I walk you through the process of breathing in and out, step by step on the flute, and help you to experience a free, full, and open breath that will help you get through those long phrases and help you to breathe better!
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Timestamps:
0:00 Introduction
1:02 How to breathe in
7:34 Exploring the in breathe (exercises)
13:51 Deep breathing exercises/ helpful breathing positions
19:24 How to breath out: control and support
20:05 Discover your support on Ssss and Fffff
21:13 Discover your support on Cha cha cha
21:47 Explaining support
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guitar-player here, just stumbling into flute playing. That was a straightforward no nonsene and well presented lesson :) Actually, even if I might eventually fail at flute, I started to notice how much I stop breathing properly when encountering difficult passages on the guitar, since the guitar does not force you to breath, i didn't really notice that before. But if you do do breathe better, you do sound better, even on the guitar. Something to work on.
Well done for noticing! I really think awareness is always the first step. Welcome to the flute family :) It goes beautifully with the guitar!
I play flute and just started guitar lol
I have used all available and have gone through most available breathing classes on RUclips. Yours is by far excellent and so useful. Thank you. You are a wonderful teacher and you give creative visual help. Now I am going to practice.
Thank you! That is so encouraging to hear and I’m glad it was useful. Enjoy your practice!
Thank you very much!!! My husband of 39 years just gifted a flute to me. I have not played in years, but I want to play at church again. Thank you for these breathing tips.
I forgot to tell you that I gave a 30 minute recital the other day for some friends. I steared away from the lower register because my tone was weak. So I played up in the other registers. I dont have a problem there. But not anymore. I'm back with a great tone thanks to you. 😅😅😅😅😅
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 just awesome!
Help! How do you breath like that but quickly in between notes????
Hi Tatiana, after almost 30years of not playing flute anymore I'm back into it since three months. Funny experience! And pretty surprising, how much knowledge remained stored somewhere in my cells. Never expected that! What helps me to regain awareness of the diaphragm is fire breathing from yoga. Like your cha-exhales, just without the c. Two rounds of 50 exhales, and I feel where my diaphragm is and what it does.
Beside I get a lot out of your tutorials. Thanx!
Love it! I have to try to not "push" my air.
Great video!
You can do it! Thank you and thank you for your amazing encouragement and support! Keep (pan) fluting on
I promise! ;)
Hi dearest Tatiana, thank you so much ! You are an excellent tutor ! You mean business and you know your task fully ! By the way you are very charming and lovely ! Thank you again for sharing your know how ! From Serge of Mauritius !!! Bid hug !!!
Thank you so much for this. I lost a lot of what I was thinking of as 'breath' after cancer/surgeries/chemo/radiation and this is what I need to find my way back to the best air support I will be able to regain. I was an avid swimmer and could swim 4 Olympic pool lengths under water in one breath easily, now I can make it about 3/4 of one (which translates to about 4 measures of playing). I will use this isolation time to exercise and get back as much as I can. Thanks again. I appreciate all your knowledge and skill, and the time you take to share it with others.
Hi Suzi! I am glad to hear that you are back to playing your instrument. It must be a real challenge after what your body has gone through. I would really recommend taking time every day to just lie on the floor or go for a walk and experience this breathing. Build it up slowly and the rest will follow, but I think understanding that breathing should be free, easy and releasing is going to get you much further. Good luck and always feel free to give me a shout if you need some more help!
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I appreciate your suggestions and have been working on breathing naturally since watching your video. Well, more like paying attention to how I was breathing, much like paying attention to how one sits and reminding ourselves to sit straight (always the reminder is in my mother's voice) until it becomes habit. :)
Maybe the best video on breathing I have watched! Bravo!!!
Im your subscriber from first 10
WOW! That is so cool. You have seen me grow right from the beginning. Thank you for your continued and amazing support!
Thank you for another great video. Very useful !
You are perfect!!
Thank you! Your great!
That was very helpful thank you
I LOVE LOVE LOVE your videos! They helped me so much! Thank you so much! ❤️
What an awesome explanation ! Thank you so much !
One could create a drinking game out of all of the times one has to yawn watching this video haha
Hahahahaha....I love it...I suspect the more I drink, the more I will yawn as well!
Thank you so much!!!
Fantastic explanation and demonstrations. Really helpful. Thanks Tatiana.
Thank you for your videos. It is really appreciated that you are sharing your knowledge like this!!!
Thank you
so helpful
A great channel. For beginners to expert. There is always something to learn. Thank you!
CCC: Clear, Complete, Convincing!
THANKS TATYANA! great ! that's very useful for students and teachers "too"
Lovely
Great video. This channel is exactly what I was looking for. I'm picking up the flute again after a very long break (like 20 years or so) and this is just what I need. I was self-taught and very proud of that, but I think some coaching would be great for me. I learned several classical pieces (from TV) the themes from several TV shows haha (Taxi, The Bob Newhart Show, etc.) the entire Jethro Tull album Songs From The Wood (everything except The Whistler) completely by ear alone. All I had was that album and a TV and a flute fingering chart. But I know I was doing a few things incorrectly, and proper breathing was one of those things, so I am now subscribed and more excited about playing again.
excellent explanation.
Been watching your videos on and off for a while now, Thank you for being a true inspiration! I just received my first budget flute, so you can imagine the extra large stupid smile on my face right meow
Congrats on the new flute! And thank you for the kind words, I'm so glad you found the videos encouraging! 😊
Your videos are extremely effective and helpful! It’s a relief for a beginner flute player like me. THANKS ❤
It's from the real experience..., congrats 👍💐
thank you so much 🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡🧡
I've got to say a BIG thank you. That other night I took you advice from this and other vids. I put the flute to my lips and I played around with my position, breathing and the angle of my aid flow. Fabulous. I blew some notes. Started on G lower register and went down to C slowly and I got a strong loud resonant tone. I was dumbstruck. I couldnt believe it. I am jumping up and down right now. I am 74. I have played flute since I was kid. I have played in bands. I not a bad player but boy oh boy .... I have that great powerful tone. It sounds great. And I have you to thank. You are a great teacher. 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅
Wow! This just made my day 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 I am so so so excited to hear that!
Very nice
Thank you Tatiana !! This was really helpful!!! Nice to see you again!!!
You're so welcome! Thank you and so nice to be at it again.
Tatiana, your ideas are amazing as you explain all that complicated technique of playing the flute! Many-many thanks, it brings me nearer to my goals!
Now I undestood! I do not need to press out the air, I have to let it flow out! Oh, yes, this is quite different! Thank you so much!
Yyyyyeeeeeessssss! These words are music to my ears. I am so excited to hear that! Enjoy 🎶
Playing after covid-19 was really tough until watching this because I really took for granted my breathing.
Thanks Tatiana, I am restarting my flute playing after a long time -15 years. I am starting over like a beginner. I was following along with the Trevor Wye book. Breathing and Scales, but I just learn better by seeing and doing and your video has been very useful and will keep me from developing bad habits. Bravo❤
You are really great to watch, this video very informative. As someone trying to get back into playing again, it’s a good reminder of the embouchure basics. Thank you!
Welcome back to the wonderful world of flute playing! I'm so glad you found it helpful. 🤩🎶
Really well done! This made both the flute teacher and yoga teacher in me feel good about what the next generation is using to find inspiration. I'll continue to point my students in the direction of your station.
But a comment to Marching Band flute players (especially here in the US): If you've had band directors teach more active/engaged breathing, it might be because you are moving physically and often quickly. In that type of athletic flute playing, the additional abdominal support isn't to help your playing/breathing, but to make sure you don't fall over. We often need to separate what we learn on the marching field from what we practice indoors. :)
Sometimes I really feel out of breath even if I just started playing. Thank you for the video!
Love this!
Thank you!
Can I just say that I am so grateful for your choice in clothing for this?? The stripes on your top shows the breathing of the diaphragm! I know my breathing is literally my biggest downfall. I always end up breathing where I feel like I shouldn't. I find it really difficult to ration enough breath for notes for more than 2 bars, especially when you start off as mezzoforte or forte and when you start off in the lower notes of the lowest octave. I'm going to try these exercices before I start my flute practicing hours in.
I was wondering if there was a routine you do for warmups before you start?
Can you make a video of breathing fast in flute breathing? With exercises
Thank you
I've already gotten everything down pat except the support, which I admit could use lots of refining, especially when learning the high notes for the first time.
It’s a challenge and eventually you just discover it!
Hello, I didn't follow your videos for some time. Now I'm back. I hope u are good despite this crazy virus.
Thank you! Yes, I am doing well and have also been quiet for a while which is why you probably were not following. Glad to be back!
Good one! I took in the data on breath in the context of yoga and martial arts training, circular breathing on didgeridoo learned in the 90's so big belly breath long time in training. Glad to see you teaching it, cause it's still not well known in common society how to breath since we are compelled by our capital, that is head driven society to control everything we can cause it's chaos if we leave it to Nature. That belief makes us tense up and creates the muscular armor I'm even now still trying to dissolve, 30 years after learning about it. It's natural and automatic, but most of us have to fight our habits to remember how to breathe, it takes practice to get back to infant breath. It's called return to childhood breath in the Chinese martial arts. More than just opening the lungs for greater air capacity, pumping the belly and back, sides and perineum too is the primary blood pump in the body. Heart doesn't pump blood on its own, but gives the whole system a coordination wave that's picked up by all the cells and gives rise to our sense of being an individual. Without the belly pump that's why people can't stay warm without heaters and why bones get weak and a whole lot of bad stuff comes from not pumping our bellies. SO, anyway, glad to see the information obviated cause it's not well known. The fact that breathing is so fundamental and non negotiable maybe makes it hard for most people to even realize there's practices to improve it, especially since our society tends to make us lose the natural way.
So lovely to see you again!
Thank you! 😊
@@TheFlutePractice Still heading down that side of the world by the way, busy working out the logistics at the moment..so much is happening around me currently! Keep you posted. :-)
The natural elasticity of the lungs make it easy to breath out when you have your lung full of air. Thus, as you have less air in the lungs, you need to use your muscles more & more to support a steady stream of air (same air speed, same air volume) for the flute.
got my flute yesterday and i hope this helps
Enjoy the new flute! I hope you found the video helpful! 😊
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Hello! This isn’t related to the video but I’m in 9th grade and have been playing the flute for 3 years and I’m looking to audition for all state band. This summer I haven’t practiced that much and the band only excepts 12 flutists, the best in the state. I want to get in but I don’t think I’m one of the best. Anyways do you have any recording tips (for auditioning) and how to learn music quickly and effectively! Thanks!
Sometimes when I play I feel like I have to breath out instead of breathing in
How often do you practice playing the Flute? If you practice every day them I will too.. I have mainly tried to practice consistently without skipping days. I put myself under your teaching me the amount of time I practice. Thank you in advance for helping me and I am sure countless others. I gave you a like and am fully subscribed to and obviously I am commenting. You are also in my prayers as I am a deciple of Jesus Christ and am a Latter day saint.. So now you know about me. Also I am married and living in the Philippines... It's a a long and interesting story. So long, This is B 23:25 rother William Powers being quiet now. ❤
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nice. thanx
It's awesome to see you again
What do you think about aerophone and ewi? Please tell us is it worth it to shift to these electronic wind instruments ?
Hey! Been very quiet for a while. I will need to look into them. I honestly have not tried them so I don't know but would be really fun to do. Hope you are doing well and are staying safe! Tatiana
Thank you so much dear, your teaching helped me a lot. I work in a hospital, last four months, I was really busy, gave only 1 hour to practice each day. That's why couldn't able to watch your tutorials.
what are exercises there for louder and more quiet breathing tones during/ while jumping through different notes. in order to make flute sound professional rather than one boring tone with diff notes
how can I buy the type of flute you showed?
I am finding i am running out of breath quicker than I used to...(I am 52 and picked up my flute again after a long lonnnng time away) Any good exercises I can do to help to make the most of the breath I have so I don't run by the end of a phrase?
i love you lol . how not to support someone lol . force them . this works for life too . my guru said breath will give you the power to get anything in life lol .
you are sooo awesome xDD ahhaha xD thx alot
PLAY on the floor like that . ahahha xD . amazing xD (i see you ahhaha xD )
Is it a good idea to try again..... For whatever reason I feel like I am trying to hard.
So the most important concept here about diaphragm is that you have to let it go .. Elsa would say, right? I understand it, that it is like a balloon full of air and using only abdominal muscles I have to control the flow? No pushing, no squeezing just letting it out ... Is that really how flutist play that all the time? I am a little bit not sure about the area of body which controls the flow. When I tried that breathing exercise, I noticed that upper abdominal muscles tighten there (just below the bottom part of ribs cage) when I try to control the flow. Is it that place?
Yes! That sounds correct. I think keep exploring. Try say the ssss and ffff daily or even the ha. You are not going to be totally relaxed and doing nothing. Muscles are working, but you are not using excessive force or squeezing but rather the natural ability your body already has.
6:49 maybe I’m misunderstanding, but our diaphragm is active when it’s breathing in, -not- in breathing out
Absolutely. The muscle contracts when you breathe in and relaxes when you breathe out…but, you don’t actively need to ‘contract’ that muscle. You really just need to allow your body to do it’s thing! I don’t believe we have much control over the diaphragmatic muscle directly.
@@TheFlutePractice okay thanks for clarifying! And I agree; I’m very aware of my muscles, and I don’t really feel my diaphragm; it’s like me “exerting effort to breathe in” just results in an equal and automatic motion of the diaphragm
@@TheFlutePractice I’m going to work on allowing my lungs to fill with air instead of trying to drag in the air as much ^^
Can someone pls say is she talking about breathing through mouth or nose
I am ten but I really what to know this pls
I would say breathe through the mouth where possible, unless you breathing really slowly. If you breathe fast through the nose, you will feel what happens to your throat.
Thank u so much for helping
Love your videos but your sound is too low