A blog dedicated to the flute. Wooden flute, silver flute. Folkie style, classical style. Beginners through to the more advanced. A daily blog for these lock down times!
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A little video that helps you go all the way down to the bottom and then all the way to the top. (As far as you need to go anyway!) Bottom D two octaves up to top D.
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One of the very first tunes I wrote for wooden flute today. It's a really long tune and it comes in two parts, so today is part 1. It's a jig with 6 parts, but it's not that tricky. It's called Ormistons' because that was the maker of the flute that I played at that time, so the flute gave me the tune.
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It's time for a Swedish tune today - a slängpolska. Easily played on the silver flute - I'm playing it on my wooden flute, but you will need keys to play it on a wooden flute. You need to be able to cross finger a C natural and you'll need an F natural key.
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This video deals with putting your flute together - being careful of your keys if you have any. How to align the holes and making your first tentative notes with the whole flute assembled. If you've followed part 1 and part 2 you'll notice that the whole flute takes a lot more air!
Beautiful notes is the key to this video - listen carefully to yourself!
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Today we have a tune on the silver Boehm system flute. It was written by Jonny Dyer many many years ago! It cracks along at quite a pace!
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Part 2 is about how we approach starting the note. We use the tongue to give the start of the note a nudge. Watch the video! Then get ready for part 3!
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One of my tunes today. To Catch a Cat. It's a jig I wrote many years ago when I was trying to catch a cat that was coming into the house. A big black cat - I never did catch it, but I did get a great jig out of it! Dots are below and also a link to our recording of this on spotify.
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So you've just got your first flute and need some help! This video is all about getting a good sound out of just the head joint. Definitely don't run before you can walk, beautiful zen notes are the order of the day! Once you're done here, head over to Flute Basics Part 2.
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Another Irish tune today - Dick Gossip. I have no idea how long I've been playing this tune for, but it was probably one of the earliest tunes I ever played on the wooden flute. It's not too tricky, but some nice grace notes in the B part to be had. I'd call them triplings - coming from a Highland Piping background. I'm aware my flute playing isn't based in Irish music, but is very varied, so expect the unexpected over the next few weeks as we're in Global Lockdown. Don't let these Irish tunes lull you into a false sense of Irish flute security!
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Vicki
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My first proper blog entry. I play lots of different styles on both wooden and silver flute, but today being St Patrick's Day I felt it should be an Irish tune and goes back to where I started on the wooden flute. So this is The Green Gates.
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Welcome to my new blog! I've been running a bagpipe and a nyckelharpa blog for a few years now, so thought it was time to start a new flute one! I've been playing the flute since I was 10 and teaching it since I was 14. I went on to music college, did a PGCE in music and then a masters in Education. I also worked in an amazingly cutting edge university department teaching hard to reach children online. So in this global lock down I decided it was time to enact something I've been meaning to start for a while. An online flute teaching resource. I love the flute, I love all my other instruments too though and that's why the flute took a back seat. But here we go, time to play the flute!
Over the next few months I'm going to try to post every day on youtube, always linking back to this blog with dots and talk. Join me!
As soon as I reach 100 followers on Youtube - I will release a special unboxing video. 😎
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