Tag: Flute

BAJAN PIED PIPER * HOW TO PLAY THE PAN FLUTE – 1/3

Learn how to play a pan flute. MUSIC 104 In this video BP teaches you how to produce good clear, rich, melodious notes on your pan flute. Many new pan pipers have some initial difficulty getting their flute to speak properly! Everyone’s mouth is shaped differently so there isn’t a “one size fits all” specific for everybody. HOW TO GET A NOTE 1) Place the flute a little below your bottom lip. 2) Take some air into your lungs, 3) Form your lips into a slight smile, “purse” them and blow gently across the top of the hole BREATHING FROM YOUR ABDOMEN … PUSH YOUR BREATH BY CONTRACTING YOUR ABDOMINAL MUSCLES. 4) When you blow, start the stream of air using an action with your tongue as if saying the word “too.” 5) Adjust the distance of the rim of the flute viv-a-vis your lower lip, as needed, by moving it a little up or down and also the angle, (as demonstrated on the video) and you’ll find the right spot where the flute delivers the best note. As you play, listen to the quality of each note and fine-tune it — as necessary — so you produce the purest note on each pipe. ie – you’re playing a song, you’re moving the flute and playing on different pipes, – keep your ear cocked as you play each note and make alterations by adjusting the angle of the flute, its position on or below your lip and the tightness or openness of your lips (your embouchure) as needed, to secure the purest note. You may possibly find as you go to play the very highest notes to squeeze your lips very …

Sax Lesson – Stratospheric sax gliss (Dean Hilson – tenor sax)

digitalpill.tv A sax lesson from Dean Hilson on how to glide effortlessly into the the upper register in one long ascending note, which is called a gliss or glissando. Technique for intermediate to advanced sax players. Learn to play saxophone high tones. Im using a 10* Otto Link with a No. 3 Vandoren ZZ and a BG Ligature L28MJ. The horn is a Selmer Mk.6, serial 123XXX. Which puts it around 1964 I think.

My Romance – BAJAN PIEDPIPER – Learn to play a pan flute

My Romance Bajan Piedpiper This is the first video I’ve posted and the quality is not the best! I’ll try to get it better subsequently. I’m just using a web cam and it’s difficult to get the audio and focus settings properly adjusted. Thank you for watching this video! Please visit my main page, click here ~ www.youtube.com Dear friend . . . music is such a wonderful thing! It warms the heart and sooths the troubled mind! I am a completely self taught musician and the only reason I post these videos is that (hopefully!) they may inspire you to run out and get an instrument and learn to play! Its not that hard! You can either teach yourself or find a tutor in your neighborhood. I can promise you your life will be greatly enriched!

How to play flute iPhone sheet music : Ave Maria by Gounod

Learn to play easily iPhone sheet music for flute : the beautiful ”Ave Maria” melody by C. Gounod (based on the Prelude by JS Bach). Download the app on iTunes App Store at : itunes.apple.com ©2009 Muzibook Publishing More about Sheet Music for iPhone and iPod touch at : www.iphonesheetmusic.com

BAJAN PIED PIPER * Learn to Play the Pan Flute – 2/3

Learn how to play a pan flute. MUSIC 105 The music you play will be as beautiful as you make it! Basic notes are like ugly ducklings – – you have to transform them into swans! You do this by employing the various techniques I show you in this video, such as tremolo, bending, articulation, slurring etc.. You need these and the other skills I teach you, to make your playing sparkle. Notice examples of a slurred attack, syncopated phrasing, a bit of improvisation and silences in my vid www.youtube.com I play about 10 different instruments and I find the Pan Flute is the easiest of all to learn and play. It’s a beautiful instrument and people just love to hear you play it! ~ I play classics, jazz, blues, ballads – and every genre of music you can think of. go to ~ www.youtube.com and listen to the Pan Flute playing Blues! Please also visit my home page at ~ www.youtube.com Do go to YouTube’s ‘Search’ – enter how to play the pan flute and you’ll find many teachers posting videos. Look at all of them and learn as much as you can. The essential thing is to PRACTICE. When practicing, if you start feeling tired or irked, stop … and come back later. Dont get frustrated! You’ll find, in the interim, your ‘mind’ continues to work on the ‘problem’ and when you come back you can manage much better. Practice a bit every day and soon and before you know it, you’ll be playing beautifully and masterfully! SOME IMPORTANT INFORMATION ABOUT PRACTICE … YOUR BODY REMEMBERS WHATEVER IT …