How to Play the 4th Note in a Bb (B Flat) Flute Scale

Video Transcript

"The 4th note in the B flat major scale is E flat. Let's look at E flat on the staff. To play a E flat you notice E flat has a flat which makes it altered or lower from the original natural E. You can see this is necessary in order to fit the pattern for a major scale. You have a half step which is required. The flat makes E a half step lower so it can be a half step. Let's look how to play this on the flute. You have the 2nd, 3rd and thumb in the left hand and in the right hand you have 1,2,3, and pinkie. This is how E flat sounds. Moving from D the previous note to E flat is fairly simple. D was played in such and E flat you just add the pinkie key. This is easy to play on the fingers and also it is a good representation of moving the fingers to match the type of intervals. Since it is a half step and add one more which makes it close relations. Going back to the beginning of our scale we have B flat to C which is a whole step. C to D which is a whole step and D to E flat the last note which is a half step. Let's listen. E flat was the last note. "