hi Johanna! I am currently in the process of shopping for my professional flute. I laughed so hard when you said "this is why most of us don't get a car first, we get a flute." This is so true for myself, and all of my musician friends. Thanks for the tips!
It's the same with us folkies - a Glenluce trad flute kept calling me....... and I spent hours trying to resist..... but I've now owned that flute for almost 2 decades - and it still sings for me! The dealer took one look at me when I first played it and then put the box away until I was ready - he knew he was getting that sale, that day!
In your Flute festival 2013 video, you said that you use a brannen, so i went on their website and saw the exact same flute you use (Brannen 10K Rose flute)
What a great video!! I totally agree, I was so sad when I sounded awful on my dream flute. But that lead my to the flute of my dreams, which had all the features I always thought I didn't like.
I'm retired, therefore old. The choice of flutes and headjoints today is phenomenal but also overwhelming. I'm glad I don't have to make this kind of buying decision. On the other hand, the market for used flutes is a buyer's market and there are bargains to be had, if you don't have the money for a new flute. Another alternative is to just get a new headjoint, if your student flute is in good playing condition. Most of the way a flute sounds, how easily it articulates, all come from the headjoint. The problem in finding a good used flute is that it needs to be in really good playing condition, or it's not comparable to any decent new flute when trying it, although once years ago I tried an old Haynes l liked much better than a bunch of new Prima Sankyo flutes. Well, I guess it was in good playing condition. I didn't buy the Haynes then because it was A440. One little thing off, a pad that doesn't close properly, solder coming loose on a tone hole, or a headjoint cork which has shrunk, and you can't even tell if a used flute is really good, the one for you. There's an odd hitch to going from a student flute to a professional flute, or going from any flute/headjoint to another. Even with all the headjoints to try, which is wonderful, you probably feel most at ease with one that is similar to the size and shape of blow hole that you are already used to playing. So when that "magic" happens, it could be deceptive. You could be selecting what is most familiar, instead of the one that is truly the best. That's why these flute shops that now let you try a bunch, and take two or three headjoints on trial are they way to go.
Do you have a plan to make a video on choosing an intermediate flute? You did one for choosing student flute and professional flutes. Maybe a video for all of us mediocre flutist would be nice. :)
+Chao Péter Yang To be totally honest, I took bits from both ends and put them together in the middle when I picked mine out. I also did a LOT of research and chose a Pearl intermediate flute. Unfortunately I don't have a specialty flute shop nearby so I pretty much bought mine blindly, based on reviews and research. I did buy it from a seller that I have dealt with in the past though. But...just like Joanna said, take your time, try some out if you can, and my addition is to do your research, read reviews and research the brand.
Omg we purchased a Burkart Elite flute for my daughter and there are so many amazing handmade options. When she started playing her instrument it popped and she knew it was the one for her. I’m not even going to mention the cost though...be ready to pay!🤑
I got to meet Courtney through my university a week or so ago. She helped me choose a flute within the price range I gave her and was very helpful in having me play different flutes over and over again. In the end I was able to choose a Miyazawa flute from her and im so excited to get it
That's so true I play the newer model of Jupiter and my friend Bryan plays the older version and he plays so beautifully not only on his but other flutes too
I played a Gemeinhardt from 5th to 12th grade, then finally had enough to buy my Powell. It's what I played all through college. I was a music minor and my flute teacher (A die hard Brannen player) always wanted to try mine out every lesson because she thought I sounded better than a lot of her music majors (I still don't buy that tbh) and she really really liked it! When I'm done grad school and like... have funds again I might consider financing a nicer one (mine is a handmade silver flute, but they have others I like more) but I'd still go Powell hands down. I loved her Brannen when she let me try it but that's too pricey for me and the sound isn't different, just the mechanisms.
I was wondering if you had any advice on programming a (high school) senior recital, especially concerning program length. I'm conflicted between choosing more pieces at a more attainable level or challenging myself with fewer, more difficult pieces. Stamina requirements from a 30, 45, to a 60 minute program? From your experiences, what are potential drawbacks to either route?
I wish there was more information out there for picking the professional flutes. I am picking a handmade flute by the end of December, and I have found that playing familiar pieces a few bars at a time and scales are great indicators. I have a plan after I talked to my flute professor. He sent me 6 professional flutes to play and choose from. I have narrowed it down to 2 so far. A Di Zao, and a Burkart. I love both and they are very close. It will be a difficult choice, but I am leaning towards the Di Zao. IT is also important to play for your professor which is what I will do before I purchase either one.
she's right the flute chooses the flutist because I tried 4 flutes a pro armstrong, the azumi altus, the di zhao 700, and the powell prestige which is what I wanted, but the di zhao was the flute that complemented my tone in a way that the powell flute did not.🎵
Stick to your budget is such a great advice! It is hard to try flutes that are slightly above your budget and to realize that after tax it's now way over your budget. Not a happy scenario. Stick to your budget and you'll find a really amazing flute. :-)
Do you still have to break in a new intermediate/professional flute? How would you go about breaking it in and are there any tips/concerns you could give me? Thanks!
+The Flute Channel Please stop creeping on her videos and trying to get attention. Those writing comments and asking HER questions on HER videos want HER help. Not yours. I know you're trying to get your channel "out there" but try a different way. No, she doesn't reply to her comments often, but it's not your responsibility, either. Self-promoting yourself gets annoying. She didn't get as many subscribers as she has now by replying to comments that weren't meant for her to answer on other people's channel.
Great video! I am currently a grade 11 student who is pursuing music as my career. I am playing at the RCM grade 8 level and was interested in your opinion on when the right time to upgrade to a professional instrument is. I am currently playing on an intermediate Azumi flute. Do you feel its necessary to be playing on a professional grade instrument right from the first year of university? What about auditions for university? I have discussed this with many flutists and many people seem to have differing answers and i was interested in hearing your opinions. Thanks!
I love the Harry Potter reference! I absolutely believe that comparison. I was wondering if you could help with advice shopping for a first Harmony flute (alto, especially). I have a little experience with C flute shopping, but none with alto flute.
I played my Yamaha 275 for 7 years. Then I started failing flute at the conservatory. My teachers told me that I needed a professional flute because I couldn't improve my sound any further with the Yamaha, and a good, powerful, balanced sound is mandatory to pass the subject here in Spain. I was studying at the momment, at 16 years old, and my mum and I were barely surviving. My teacher talked with my mum about my grades and my need to upgrade the flute. Sadly, Keep studying at the conservatory wasn't an option anymore, no matter what I did and how much effort I put into it, I wasn't progressing. Although it's a shame that Music conservatories in Spain force you to buy professional instruments you can barely afford, instead of finding alternative ways to improve, learn, and enjoy the instrument. Sadly I ended up quitting flute. Now maybe I can afford a professional flute, but switched to Sax. You can get a professional Yamaha or Yanagisawa alto sax for 1/4 the price of a good flute. Just wanted to share my story with you guys. Don't you ever let nobody tell you that you are limited by your instrument. If you have a solid flute with well sealing pads, you can do almost everything. You can set up the flute to play in optimum condition too. Your sound is in your embouchure and your technique is in your fingers. Focus on those two things and be patient, don't rush it and buy a 12000$ flute you can't afford at the moment. You will have the amazing flute of your dreams some day.
I like your story. When I was in my late twenties, I found myself with just a student flute, having played a succession of four Haynes flutes (two which were loaned to me). I had sold my last Haynes flute to an acquaintance, the principal of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, because I needed the money to finance my new career trajectory after leaving the Vienna Conservatory. He played it for a while until a gold flute he had ordered came in. Some years later, and without a good flute, I played for a composer friend who was in New York City and he desperately wanted me to debut a piece he wrote for flute and orchestra. So I made my New York debut as soloist with full orchestra in Manhattan on a silver plated student instrument. It went well. We weren't in a venue where my performance was written up in the New York Times or anything. Anyway, the Yamaha student flute is a very good student flute, and while it is possible a very different headjoint style, such as one with wings on the lip plate, if you had an airy sound, could help, good sound on the flute is just a quirk of nature or fate, like the way the interior of the mouth is shaped. Your teachers were wrong to insist you needed an expensive flute. The blow hole of the flute comes in three basic shapes: round(ish), oval, or rectangular (with rounded corners). Most Yamaha student models are rectangular blow hole, but not as rectangular as some. You may have sounded better with an oval blow hole headjoint, even if it was an inexpensive plated model. Although I played piano (self-taught) as a child, my first instrument in school was sax. A little frustrated on sax because it wasn't played in orchestra, I then became an award-winning clarinetist, self-taught, after playing it for two years, and then on to flute, by far my best instrument, because everything about it came naturally. In my second week on flute, I had the sound I had when a few years later I went to Europe to study. Now I play violin mostly, but I just started to play flute again, and among other things, plan on demonstrating just what kind of sound an old man can get out of a $53 used flute on my website, so some of you should check it out if you want to hear it. It should be posted within a month from now. Fortunately, I have a good flute also, which I haven't touched for 14 years, except for the last week or two. The differences are subtle, especially when I put my custom headjoint on the cheap flute. But even with its nickle headjoint, I can get a lot of power and shading out of it. The $53 flute is nickle, also known as German silver (50% copper, 25% zinc, 25% nickle) but in like-new condition, not a dent, spot or mark on it, which is a like a miracle since it is over 40 years old.
I am so sad about having to sell my old nickel baby. But I need money for my sterling silver. One question though. what is the difference between a silver intermediate flute and a silver professional one.(I got a intermediate, but silver)
Probably the quality of the flute. The price difference between professional and intermediate is quite ridiculous. I have an all sterling silver flute with a thin wall and it was 1100 new. That's so cheap compared to around 4000 for a professional sterling silver.
I thought so too. USD300 seems ok to start, then you want a 3k, then now I have two 5k flutes and one day if i save money i want gold or platinum believing that makes a big difference. A good flute makes it easier to improve and sound good, common wisdom. ALSO common wisdom, it is the playing not the instrument... p/s: seen a custom make Platinum flute for 80k !!
So I guess you changed your mind at some point about not telling us what your flute is? I'm glad, actually - while I do understand that it's not one flute fits all, I do find it good to know what brand of flute people play because it gives us a place to start from in our journey to finding that next flute.
I can tell you from my experience it is absolutely doable and fine - given the individual themselves. Though I'm not particularly condoning it - it is absolutely doable and from personal experience of having self taught myself the flute/piccolo, it wasn't difficult in picking it up given if you had had other musical experience with other instruments - more so the piano (for me!). With a trained ear and some knowledge on music I think self teaching is as good as any other methods of learning - given their levels of motivation and ability to discern between good and bad practice. Personally, I actually enjoyed self-teaching myself in the flute more than when I had a tutor teaching me (totally subjective here), and as a result saw more improvement in my playing when I was self teaching myself than the time I had a teacher. Yes - I know wtf. But lemme explain. I found that my motivation in playing the flute during when I self taught myself, was extremely high, and I was extremely constant in my diligent practice for the flute. But after being told multiple times to get a tutor, I finally got a tutor. The tutor was one of the most sweetest person I have ever met! But despite that, I found that I actually got lazier in the flute and practised very little and had very little motivation to spare - and even found myself making petty excuses to my tutor about why I didn't practice. Strangely enough I just decided to quit tutoring in the flute - as I thought I was probably better off without a tutor, not only because I thought I could do a lot better at my own pace - but I actually enjoyed the flute for what it was rather than a subject that I had to put aside time for. The good thing that I found about tutoring on the flute was the amount of resources and good methodical approaches to improving my technique in playing. Again, I am not condoning to self teaching totally - but believe it or not, self teaching is just another approach to learning that may work for some and may not work for others. Strangely enough although self teaching worked for me on the flute - I found that playing the piano with a tutor was best suited for me and that I couldn't possibly learn and improve on my own on the instrument!
I'm in my school orchestra and I play a flute (fyi I am a beginner) and I have to pay $120 covering the flute fees and teaching fees. Is it just me or is that really cheap compared to actually having a flute that cost $10,000?
Beginner flutes are cheap compared to professional flutes. That is not to say your instrument is garbage, it just means that it is made of cheaper materials (usually it's made out of nickel and is silver-plated). I'm a beginner, too, and we don't need expensive flutes because we wouldn't be able to play them anyways. So, yes, your fees are really inexpensive.
Huh. That's odd (I don't mean to offend you). I hate my Jupiter. In fact, I've been dreaming about a Yamaha for ages. But the lady who works at my local music store told me to hold onto it until (if) I decide to pursue flute performance
سلام استاد خوبی؟ من تازه کانال شما را دیدم حتما دوست دارم ببینم برنامه های شما رو اما من خیلی کم انگلیسی بلدم . بگو اهل کجا هستی ؟ من در ایران زندگی میکنم در تهران فارسی حرف میزنیم... راستی این کامنت را ترنسلیت کنید به زبان انگلیسی به فارسی
hi Johanna! I am currently in the process of shopping for my professional flute. I laughed so hard when you said "this is why most of us don't get a car first, we get a flute." This is so true for myself, and all of my musician friends. Thanks for the tips!
It's the same with us folkies - a Glenluce trad flute kept calling me....... and I spent hours trying to resist..... but I've now owned that flute for almost 2 decades - and it still sings for me! The dealer took one look at me when I first played it and then put the box away until I was ready - he knew he was getting that sale, that day!
In your Flute festival 2013 video, you said that you use a brannen, so i went on their website and saw the exact same flute you use (Brannen 10K Rose flute)
what a detective
My first flute was made by Armstrong and now I have a Pearl Flute. It is exactly like the wand choosing the wizard. Love the Harry Potter reference :D
Katie Wilkinson i just generally love everything harry potter.
What a great video!! I totally agree, I was so sad when I sounded awful on my dream flute. But that lead my to the flute of my dreams, which had all the features I always thought I didn't like.
Very, very informative. You really provided some solid, practical tips for flute shopping I had never thought of. Thanks!
I'm retired, therefore old. The choice of flutes and headjoints today is phenomenal but also overwhelming. I'm glad I don't have to make this kind of buying decision. On the other hand, the market for used flutes is a buyer's market and there are bargains to be had, if you don't have the money for a new flute. Another alternative is to just get a new headjoint, if your student flute is in good playing condition. Most of the way a flute sounds, how easily it articulates, all come from the headjoint.
The problem in finding a good used flute is that it needs to be in really good playing condition, or it's not comparable to any decent new flute when trying it, although once years ago I tried an old Haynes l liked much better than a bunch of new Prima Sankyo flutes. Well, I guess it was in good playing condition. I didn't buy the Haynes then because it was A440. One little thing off, a pad that doesn't close properly, solder coming loose on a tone hole, or a headjoint cork which has shrunk, and you can't even tell if a used flute is really good, the one for you.
There's an odd hitch to going from a student flute to a professional flute, or going from any flute/headjoint to another. Even with all the headjoints to try, which is wonderful, you probably feel most at ease with one that is similar to the size and shape of blow hole that you are already used to playing. So when that "magic" happens, it could be deceptive. You could be selecting what is most familiar, instead of the one that is truly the best. That's why these flute shops that now let you try a bunch, and take two or three headjoints on trial are they way to go.
Do you have a plan to make a video on choosing an intermediate flute? You did one for choosing student flute and professional flutes. Maybe a video for all of us mediocre flutist would be nice. :)
+Chao Péter Yang To be totally honest, I took bits from both ends and put them together in the middle when I picked mine out. I also did a LOT of research and chose a Pearl intermediate flute. Unfortunately I don't have a specialty flute shop nearby so I pretty much bought mine blindly, based on reviews and research. I did buy it from a seller that I have dealt with in the past though. But...just like Joanna said, take your time, try some out if you can, and my addition is to do your research, read reviews and research the brand.
In school during band class we watch your videos
I just got a flute almost six months ago and I love it. It's an Altus and my sound is much bigger than it was when I played on my old flute. :)
Omg we purchased a Burkart Elite flute for my daughter and there are so many amazing handmade options. When she started playing her instrument it popped and she knew it was the one for her. I’m not even going to mention the cost though...be ready to pay!🤑
I got to meet Courtney through my university a week or so ago. She helped me choose a flute within the price range I gave her and was very helpful in having me play different flutes over and over again. In the end I was able to choose a Miyazawa flute from her and im so excited to get it
That's so true I play the newer model of Jupiter and my friend Bryan plays the older version and he plays so beautifully not only on his but other flutes too
I played a Gemeinhardt from 5th to 12th grade, then finally had enough to buy my Powell. It's what I played all through college. I was a music minor and my flute teacher (A die hard Brannen player) always wanted to try mine out every lesson because she thought I sounded better than a lot of her music majors (I still don't buy that tbh) and she really really liked it! When I'm done grad school and like... have funds again I might consider financing a nicer one (mine is a handmade silver flute, but they have others I like more) but I'd still go Powell hands down. I loved her Brannen when she let me try it but that's too pricey for me and the sound isn't different, just the mechanisms.
Wow you replied!! 😁 I really like your videos. Your the best flautist/flutist on RUclips. Please do a video on articulation please. Thanks
My parents just went and bought me a Vento:pp we never discussed any of this lol but it works well and the sound is whole haha
"The flute chooses the flutist." 😂👏👏👏👏
I used all these tips except i bought my saxophone. Never been happier!!!
You should do a video about picking your first piccolo. I'm looking into buying one, and I would love some tips!
I'm a clarinetist and I still watch your videos
Me too! It's so fascinating. Us band students are always so curious of all the other instruments :)
+Gady LaGa I'm also a clarinetist !
im a flutist
+Rosemary Crafting Saxophonistttt
actually then I'm a flutissttttttttt
I was wondering if you had any advice on programming a (high school) senior recital, especially concerning program length. I'm conflicted between choosing more pieces at a more attainable level or challenging myself with fewer, more difficult pieces. Stamina requirements from a 30, 45, to a 60 minute program? From your experiences, what are potential drawbacks to either route?
I wish there was more information out there for picking the professional flutes. I am picking a handmade flute by the end of December, and I have found that playing familiar pieces a few bars at a time and scales are great indicators. I have a plan after I talked to my flute professor. He sent me 6 professional flutes to play and choose from. I have narrowed it down to 2 so far. A Di Zao, and a Burkart. I love both and they are very close. It will be a difficult choice, but I am leaning towards the Di Zao. IT is also important to play for your professor which is what I will do before I purchase either one.
I love your videos! Keep up the good work!
she's right the flute chooses the flutist because I tried 4 flutes a pro armstrong, the azumi altus, the di zhao 700, and the powell prestige which is what I wanted, but the di zhao was the flute that complemented my tone in a way that the powell flute did not.🎵
Thanks for the video :)
Recently tried a Powell 601 Sonare, & Ooh La La was it great! In some circles is that considered a professional model?
Stick to your budget is such a great advice! It is hard to try flutes that are slightly above your budget and to realize that after tax it's now way over your budget. Not a happy scenario. Stick to your budget and you'll find a really amazing flute. :-)
What type of sound/tone do platinum flutes tend to have?? Does white gold differ from yellow or rose gold? Thanks!
Do you still have to break in a new intermediate/professional flute? How would you go about breaking it in and are there any tips/concerns you could give me? Thanks!
+The Flute Channel
Please stop creeping on her videos and trying to get attention. Those writing comments and asking HER questions on HER videos want HER help. Not yours. I know you're trying to get your channel "out there" but try a different way. No, she doesn't reply to her comments often, but it's not your responsibility, either. Self-promoting yourself gets annoying. She didn't get as many subscribers as she has now by replying to comments that weren't meant for her to answer on other people's channel.
Did you finance your flute since it was $24k?
Great video! I am currently a grade 11 student who is pursuing music as my career. I am playing at the RCM grade 8 level and was interested in your opinion on when the right time to upgrade to a professional instrument is. I am currently playing on an intermediate Azumi flute. Do you feel its necessary to be playing on a professional grade instrument right from the first year of university? What about auditions for university? I have discussed this with many flutists and many people seem to have differing answers and i was interested in hearing your opinions. Thanks!
Can u do a video of excerpts that you use. And examples.
Thank you.
I love the Harry Potter reference! I absolutely believe that comparison. I was wondering if you could help with advice shopping for a first Harmony flute (alto, especially). I have a little experience with C flute shopping, but none with alto flute.
I played my Yamaha 275 for 7 years. Then I started failing flute at the conservatory. My teachers told me that I needed a professional flute because I couldn't improve my sound any further with the Yamaha, and a good, powerful, balanced sound is mandatory to pass the subject here in Spain.
I was studying at the momment, at 16 years old, and my mum and I were barely surviving.
My teacher talked with my mum about my grades and my need to upgrade the flute.
Sadly, Keep studying at the conservatory wasn't an option anymore, no matter what I did and how much effort I put into it, I wasn't progressing. Although it's a shame that Music conservatories in Spain force you to buy professional instruments you can barely afford, instead of finding alternative ways to improve, learn, and enjoy the instrument.
Sadly I ended up quitting flute.
Now maybe I can afford a professional flute, but switched to Sax. You can get a professional Yamaha or Yanagisawa alto sax for 1/4 the price of a good flute.
Just wanted to share my story with you guys.
Don't you ever let nobody tell you that you are limited by your instrument. If you have a solid flute with well sealing pads, you can do almost everything. You can set up the flute to play in optimum condition too.
Your sound is in your embouchure and your technique is in your fingers. Focus on those two things and be patient, don't rush it and buy a 12000$ flute you can't afford at the moment. You will have the amazing flute of your dreams some day.
I like your story. When I was in my late twenties, I found myself with just a student flute, having played a succession of four Haynes flutes (two which were loaned to me). I had sold my last Haynes flute to an acquaintance, the principal of the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, because I needed the money to finance my new career trajectory after leaving the Vienna Conservatory. He played it for a while until a gold flute he had ordered came in.
Some years later, and without a good flute, I played for a composer friend who was in New York City and he desperately wanted me to debut a piece he wrote for flute and orchestra. So I made my New York debut as soloist with full orchestra in Manhattan on a silver plated student instrument. It went well. We weren't in a venue where my performance was written up in the New York Times or anything.
Anyway, the Yamaha student flute is a very good student flute, and while it is possible a very different headjoint style, such as one with wings on the lip plate, if you had an airy sound, could help, good sound on the flute is just a quirk of nature or fate, like the way the interior of the mouth is shaped. Your teachers were wrong to insist you needed an expensive flute. The blow hole of the flute comes in three basic shapes: round(ish), oval, or rectangular (with rounded corners). Most Yamaha student models are rectangular blow hole, but not as rectangular as some. You may have sounded better with an oval blow hole headjoint, even if it was an inexpensive plated model.
Although I played piano (self-taught) as a child, my first instrument in school was sax. A little frustrated on sax because it wasn't played in orchestra, I then became an award-winning clarinetist, self-taught, after playing it for two years, and then on to flute, by far my best instrument, because everything about it came naturally. In my second week on flute, I had the sound I had when a few years later I went to Europe to study. Now I play violin mostly, but I just started to play flute again, and among other things, plan on demonstrating just what kind of sound an old man can get out of a $53 used flute on my website, so some of you should check it out if you want to hear it. It should be posted within a month from now. Fortunately, I have a good flute also, which I haven't touched for 14 years, except for the last week or two. The differences are subtle, especially when I put my custom headjoint on the cheap flute. But even with its nickle headjoint, I can get a lot of power and shading out of it. The $53 flute is nickle, also known as German silver (50% copper, 25% zinc, 25% nickle) but in like-new condition, not a dent, spot or mark on it, which is a like a miracle since it is over 40 years old.
The best part of the video is in the last 15 seconds
Thanks really helpful. But you have said which flute you use on a different video.
Flute kid Not exactly. ;)
Yeah your right you have only said the brand it could be any model. Thanks for making these videos I could spend hours watching them.
I think you should upload more often
Tyler Campbell Yea like twice a week
I agree! But she probably doesn't have much time to make videos being a broke musician and all...
I am so sad about having to sell my old nickel baby. But I need money for my sterling silver. One question though. what is the difference between a silver intermediate flute and a silver professional one.(I got a intermediate, but silver)
Probably the quality of the flute. The price difference between professional and intermediate is quite ridiculous. I have an all sterling silver flute with a thin wall and it was 1100 new. That's so cheap compared to around 4000 for a professional sterling silver.
I thought my instrument (vibraphone) was expensive at a few thousand for a good one, but 10,000, that's insane.
I thought so too. USD300 seems ok to start, then you want a 3k, then now I have two 5k flutes and one day if i save money i want gold or platinum believing that makes a big difference. A good flute makes it easier to improve and sound good, common wisdom. ALSO common wisdom, it is the playing not the instrument... p/s: seen a custom make Platinum flute for 80k !!
So I guess you changed your mind at some point about not telling us what your flute is? I'm glad, actually - while I do understand that it's not one flute fits all, I do find it good to know what brand of flute people play because it gives us a place to start from in our journey to finding that next flute.
What do you think about people self teaching themselves flute? I'm not so keen about it but I'd like to hear your opinion
I can tell you from my experience it is absolutely doable and fine - given the individual themselves. Though I'm not particularly condoning it - it is absolutely doable and from personal experience of having self taught myself the flute/piccolo, it wasn't difficult in picking it up given if you had had other musical experience with other instruments - more so the piano (for me!). With a trained ear and some knowledge on music I think self teaching is as good as any other methods of learning - given their levels of motivation and ability to discern between good and bad practice. Personally, I actually enjoyed self-teaching myself in the flute more than when I had a tutor teaching me (totally subjective here), and as a result saw more improvement in my playing when I was self teaching myself than the time I had a teacher. Yes - I know wtf. But lemme explain. I found that my motivation in playing the flute during when I self taught myself, was extremely high, and I was extremely constant in my diligent practice for the flute. But after being told multiple times to get a tutor, I finally got a tutor. The tutor was one of the most sweetest person I have ever met! But despite that, I found that I actually got lazier in the flute and practised very little and had very little motivation to spare - and even found myself making petty excuses to my tutor about why I didn't practice. Strangely enough I just decided to quit tutoring in the flute - as I thought I was probably better off without a tutor, not only because I thought I could do a lot better at my own pace - but I actually enjoyed the flute for what it was rather than a subject that I had to put aside time for. The good thing that I found about tutoring on the flute was the amount of resources and good methodical approaches to improving my technique in playing. Again, I am not condoning to self teaching totally - but believe it or not, self teaching is just another approach to learning that may work for some and may not work for others. Strangely enough although self teaching worked for me on the flute - I found that playing the piano with a tutor was best suited for me and that I couldn't possibly learn and improve on my own on the instrument!
Actually second question though, do they come to UK ever?
Didn't you say in a blog you have a gold series Miyazawa? Maybe I'm just a nerd and can tell ;)
She plays on a Brannen flute
Okay.. I've just got to say it. I FUDGE-A-LUDGING LOVE YOUUU! Kay bye :)
I will be purchasing a professional ️Flute soon. I don't know weather to get a closed hole or open hole. Any ideas?
Get whatever one you like. It's virtually useless to get an open hole flute. I hope this helps.
i have a gemein hart and i dont like it but im getting an armstrong
Along with sir James Galway.😁
Great video!
Are wood flutes not professional o.O I love the sound they make :3
I'm in my school orchestra and I play a flute (fyi I am a beginner) and I have to pay $120 covering the flute fees and teaching fees. Is it just me or is that really cheap compared to actually having a flute that cost $10,000?
Beginner flutes are cheap compared to professional flutes. That is not to say your instrument is garbage, it just means that it is made of cheaper materials (usually it's made out of nickel and is silver-plated). I'm a beginner, too, and we don't need expensive flutes because we wouldn't be able to play them anyways. So, yes, your fees are really inexpensive.
I wish I could go to a flute party but I'm only in middle school. xD
I think you use Brannen rose gold flute
Are you from Seattle or live here
Reviews for trevor james flute :)
umm can you do the GREEN BIRD thats a Flute Solo...Please??..😊
I have the pearl flute it just says it on the case
You play a Brennan brothers flute I think
Will you tech me to play some
Were over the rabow
The Sharp dude is a flute company representative yet he's holding a flute the way that ruins the rods and keys
O_o
It doesn't matter unless he squeezes it
I had a Yamaha but I now have a Jupiter:) ps your videos are cool!
Ha! I had a Jupiter but now I have a Yamaha. We switched!
Huh. That's odd (I don't mean to offend you). I hate my Jupiter. In fact, I've been dreaming about a Yamaha for ages. But the lady who works at my local music store told me to hold onto it until (if) I decide to pursue flute performance
I play on a Jupiter, but I've been having an argument with the high register and inline g, so I'm looking at Yamaha flutes
I want a diamond flute.
I though it was called a flautist
irene Lawrence I'm pretty sure that Europeans call it that, but in America, its more common to say flutist
Both are acceptable.
She also has another channel with the same name except it is flautist.
Why is there so be much noise interfering with the voiceover. Sad.
You don’t need $10,000 to buy a professional flute you can buy a Yamaha and still sound good
Lol my language teacher's name is Mrs. Powell
Nina Saechao OMG SAME
I am asking for a flote for my birthday
You're great. I bought a plastic flute. I am the second chair player in the Atlanta symphony. The first chair player is a real bitch.
well i have a yamaha flute
Hello, please translate my previous comment into English ... Persian to English
سلام استاد خوبی؟
من تازه کانال شما را دیدم حتما دوست دارم ببینم برنامه های شما رو اما من خیلی کم انگلیسی بلدم .
بگو اهل کجا هستی ؟ من در ایران زندگی میکنم در تهران فارسی حرف میزنیم... راستی این کامنت را ترنسلیت کنید به زبان انگلیسی به فارسی
Powell is my schools name lol...
Beware as well. Flute parts are jobbed out to 3rd world companies. All that Glitters is not Gold. Take heed to appearance.