Breathing Tips & Techniques for Playing the Irish Flute

Video Transcript

" Hi I'm David Cantieni on behalf of Expert Village I'm going to be sharing with you some useful techniques for practicing the Irish style flute. Well breathing and rhythm are intertwined as you may know in order to play the flute you do have to breathe and in traditional music unlike classical music you don't necessarily need to hide your breathing you want to use your breathing. There is so many different ways to breathe. As if you have looked at the earlier segment you would of heard the part about the cough and you can use that cough. So that is a sort of a small sort of a choking sort of cough. There are also glottal stops you can go “cuh” “cuh”. But a lot of what I do is, it is like a very soft cough. Like that. There are some other types of breathing that you might be interesting in. of course in classical music there is Vibrato and in traditional music Vibrato is used very sparingly but in can be use in occasion. Sometimes you would here a flute player having a very sort of a wiggle sound and it give the note sort of a nice vibrating kind of live feel. Lets see if I can think of a tune. I didn't use it well I probably put it in a little stronger then what I normally would. But i would like you to get the idea of that. Then of course there is using your breathe even as a more rhythmic devise. There is some traditional flute styles that use that kind of bouncy breathe cushion I like to call it."