Positioning Your Fingers to Play a Scale on the Flute

Video Transcript

"So when you feel relaxed and you're breathing gently and easily you can actually start by covering the top holes of your flute, the ones that are covered by the left hand for most people. You'll have either three holes up there or on some flutes two holes. The two holes will be the top two of these and this one will be missing. So if you have no hole there just put your finger right where the hole would be. If you do have a hole cover it. Move your fingers around, make sure the holes are covered tightly and then just breathe in and breathe out very gently through your flute. If you're getting a sound something like that, then your flute is definitely working. The sound that you produce might be in a different key and it might be louder or softer, but even if it was in a different key you'll know that the relationships of all the notes are the same. So you can still use this lesson to learn your flute. Now let's try one more hole, so this is the third hole up from the bottom and the index finger of the other hand and you can just play with these two notes. Add one more finger. And then if you can get all of your fingers covering up all the holes on your flute, get them all sealing just right. Meaning no air leaks, if you blow gently through the flute you should get the lowest note."