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Summary: Learn how to play octaves in an F major scale on the flute from an expert flutist in this free video on musical instruments and music theory.
A native Vermonter, Kiely Griffin has been playing the flute for ten years. She has participated in many district, state, regional and national ensembles including the National Wind...read more
"We have now learned how to play the F major scale on the flute. We have gone all the way up to the last note F. Since I didn't mention the other octave in the beginning,let's take a quick look at the top note F which repeats the bottom note in the end of the scale is fingered the exact same way as the lower F. As you can see, this is where F falls in the scale. Let me review the scale. We have now just looked at F major in 1 octave. 1 octave is the distance between F and F but there are many F's in music. We have learned from the low F to the middle F. For advanced players, you can move on to learn how to play from middle F up to high F. This is called the 2nd octave each of these are octaves. "
eHow Article: How to Play Octaves on the Flute in F Major