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Summary: Helpful mouthing exercises. Find techniques and tips for beginners on how to implement slurring, tonguing, and vibrato into your flute playing in this free video flute lesson.
Sarah Noah has been playing flute for eleven years, and in that time has received numerous awards. She has competed in solo and ensemble competitions seven years in a row, and was...read more
"Hi, my name is Sarah for Expert Village.com. Today, I am going to talk to you about one of the most basic flute techniques called slurring. Slurring means you play the constant stream of air and as you are playing, there is no break between those. You just let it flow. I will demonstrate it now. Another common technique is called timing. Timing is when you create a break between each note so that it has definition. To do this, your constant stream of air is broken by your tongue. You should let your tongue hit the top of your teeth, the back of your teeth, and the roof of your mouth. I will demonstrate it now. The common musical technique called vibrato and this is how the flute does it. You take your constant stream of air and you actually pulse with your stomach and your diaphragm to create smaller puffs of air and larger puffs of air. One way to practice this is to feel it, to actually feel it on your hand. Put your hand in front of you, create your proper flute mouth position and blow and feel how you can pulse the air with muscles in your mouth and with your diaphragm. I will demonstrate it now. "
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davidt1 said
on 12/8/2008 Additionally, during the slurring video demontration, she acually slurred from the e to the f on the F m scale. Very bad.
davidt1 said
on 12/8/2008 As a profesionally trained flutist, I would not recommed this instructional video as an example for beginning students who want to learn proper technique. While the verbal instructions are adequate, the tone quality and tonguing quality and technique are very amature and undevleoped.
peterk1 said
on 8/2/2008 Why are we writing so much mean stuff around here? Can't we all just be kind and play together nicely? Can you "herd" me? It is a good point that the so called experts make their own videos to show the world how good they are. Maybe something to replace the Sarah Noah videos when they are taken down?
delasonorite said
on 8/2/2008 Diac, most of us don't have the time to produce videos of our playing and advice. And those of us out there who know what we are doing also know that you can't learn to play the flute from watching online videos. The best foundation is laid with a teacher who is skilled at both playing and interacting with the student. Sarahisanidiot is right. On all of the comments.
evuser8489 said
on 8/2/2008 Sarah SHOULD NOT be demonstrating tonguing. Her tonguing needs to be lighter and not so harsh and herd by the audience like that. Her vibrato is very uneven also. This girl if far from being an expert. I vote that all you flutists that hate these videos and DO know what you are talking about to please write to village experts and ask that they harmful videos be removed. With enough complaints, maybe then they will listen.