I’m a cellist but also a classically trained vocalist and I found that as I’ve been helping my son during his flute practice (he’s only just started), I would try to play the flute myself and what you’ve said in this video were things I naturally experimented with because of my voice training! This is so fascinating to me. I am so grateful for your videos!!! You explain everything so well. Thank you!

I'm just starting to learn flute at the age of 65 and I've found your instruction very helpful and fun.

OMG! Thank you for these tips. On my own I have been struggling to hit a clean higher C, etc. Your tips got me there immediately : ) Hitting the F while visualizing the Hot Potato in my throat is brilliant. A clean high F on the first blow- Love you girlie🎉 Your program is remarkable. Thank you.

It's weird how as a kid I was able to hit the high notes with no trouble but now I'm struggling after re-learning... this video was really helpful

I'm a beginner and really been struggling with consistent 2nd octave notes - forget trying anything higher! But I watched, copied and there they all were, 3 octaves of G! Thank you so much!

This helped so much, my cat is much more happy. The lip roll and forward pout are so subtle, lots to play with thanks.

I'm a professional singer, and I'm gratified that what I do when singing (i.e., support, open throat, relaxed mouth) all work when playing the flute as well! I liked your comment about opera singers. What they are doing on high notes is opening the throat, increasing support, and bringing the tone even further forward in the mouth (and into the sinuses). Sound familiar? Love your videos!

From my experience I do what you say...loosen up and relax. I find I get a better tone through the way I breath and from where I let my breath flow from. I open my throat. The air comes from just below the back of my throat. Below my Adam's apple. If I have to for instance triple tongue then it's coming from my the centre on my mouth....just slightly back of the tip of my tongue. But if I had to give advise I would say the key to getting CONTROL of the sound quality is breathing and a strong diaphragm....strong tummy muscles...and a good lip position. Great vid. Love it. 😊😊😊😊😊

I tried blowing air up my nose and fogging my glasses up. Of course I did not get a sound. I went back to regular flute playing and it improved my tone! Definitely will relax your lips. That's the first thing I do now as a warmup before I play is to blow air up my nose and fog my glasses. Thanks for the excellent instruction!!

I’m 36 and just starting to learn the flute. Your videos have been an amazing resource. Thank you so much!

Lips combine with jaw combined with breath combined with back throat and much more. I tried what you say and I can feel the difference. A larger picture than I ever knew. Thank you.

I've been away from the flute for about 6 years and now that I'm playing again, I was so frustrated because I couldn't produce B3 and C4 anymore and the remaining 3rd octave notes were airy and ugly. Your tips made instant effect, I found the placing for these high notes again. Thank you sooo much for this video, it helped me tons!!!

Started flute a few weeks ago. I couldn’t get consistent high notes. I watched this video and used your techniques. Within 30 seconds, I could play high register notes as I wish. Thank you very much.

*Ahem* For those of us not learning with an instructor (i.e. self-teaching via videos/books/etc), here's a really helpful tip on reaching those third register notes... remember that the fingerings change. Yeah, I'm letting you in on my egg-faced shame here... boy was I struggling for that third register E only to find out after beating my head against that proverbial wall for about 20 minutes... the fingerings change. When you do the correct thing on the flute and follow this awesome video - WOW - there's a high note. But... you know... first things first. -_- :D

This is the part I'm having the most trouble with, but I'm going to work on it until I get it right!

I have looked at youtube after youtube to help me with my high notes. Your instruction was not any others and it helped so much!! Thank you.

I love your organic approach to sound production , it makes so much more sense to me!

moving the jaw forward is what helped me reach the high octave in the end. great tip! i was hitting the high octave by the end of the video!!

Thank you so much!! I was in urgent need of learning high notes FAST and you just helped fix my problem completely ❤

Feels magical. Your tips made everything just work. Thank you so much!

Although this video is quite old I just wanna comment that out of ALL the videos I've watched about high notes yours was the most effective one!! Before watching I couldn't reach second octave C and after watching I picked up my flute, applied what I learned from you then BAM INSTANT MAGIC! Thank u so much!

Very helpful tips. Thanks! Love your facial expressions and sense of humor. It makes learning fun and oh so real!

I've looked at so many videos on how to play high notes but have never found what I need until now. Thank you!

This is exactly what I needed! Thank you!

Great tips!! I was able to reach the second octave B which I've been struggling with for a while. Thank you!!

Thank you sooo much - your teachings are very helpful 😃👍😃

Really appreciate these tips - just starting out and this has been so helpful have improved consistency in high notes over last 24 hours

OMG! It works perfectly. I'm all smiles after being able to get the high notes easily without much stress following your tips. Thank you soooo much :)

Nice description. Very helpful. Thank you!

Really helpful, beautifully explained.

Very helpful tips!

I’ve been binging your videos over this quarantine. I’m in my senior year and I’m trying to improve (not only because I want first chair for pride reasons lol, but because it’ll help in college as I’m going for music education), and my tone has improved greatly in just two weeks of your advice! I honestly recommend these videos for beginners, advanced players, anyone who wants to improve!

Thank you for your wonderful tips

Thank you for the fabulous tips. You have helped me improve greatly this summer!

Thanx for your precise explanation. It really works.

the "ph" helped so much, I've been struggling with my E3 for a while and now I get it almost every time !

Thank you tatiana! At 6:50 lips and chin shifting air direction down and gradually up... first time seeing this!!!!! Can’t wait to try this!!!😊❤️👍‼️

Thank you! Very well explained.

Thank you for these tips!!

thank you sssooommuch! This really made some difference for my high notes!

Thanks , really helpful, not long started to play, your videos helped enormously:)

As a very mature beginner flute player, This is very useful. I have had years of classic voice training. A lot of the same principles apply to singing high notes. Jeanne

Thank you so much for this useful video!

Thank you so much. I really appreciate the instruction. 😃❤️

Thanks this video helped so much l like how you explained it

Worked for me! Thanks! I borrowed a flute in high school for a week. With no instruction but a book that barely taught the basics of posture and hand positions for 4 instruments, I managed to not only get the 2nd octave, but play the Lover's Waltz a couple times before getting winded. Now in my 30s I bought a Yamaha 222 and hadn't managed to get the 2nd octave after all!

Great vid! Got it straight away afetr seeing yours and a couple others, I even went OMG I've just got it finally HAHA. So generous of people to freely share their knowledge. Thank you so much.

Omg this is so helpful! Thank you~~

it works! thanks 💕

I have started playing flute just 2 weeks ago. And your videos really supported me. Thank you so much. Your videos do not seems like videos, its like you are in front. Love you !!

Great video! I will remember the hot potatoe and the image of you singing like an opera singer to explain 'going low to hit high'. Thank you very much for the kind lesson.

Works for me, thank you so much.

Thank you so much! I haven't played in 40 years and started to play again and those high notes, oy! You really helped! :)

Hooray! I've listened to various teachers and could not get the high notes. Your explanation is perfect. Thank you so much.

Thanks so much. Great video!

Very very helpful, excellent!

Thank you so much, very helpful tips.

Thank you your video helped SOOOOOOO much

Thank you for making this video, I had been looking through many videos looking at tone and easier ways to produce high notes and yours helped me the most. I've been practicing a lot for a high part I was assigned to play for MPA, but I sounded really sharp and strained and your video helped fix that. There was a comment about piccolo below, and I hope you do make a video on it. It'd really help! I hope you continue making this videos! :)

I love your style

This really helped. Especially the comment about relearning and getting frustrated.

thank you so much for all your videos so helpful and I like you style

You are simply amazing!!! Today I was struggling doing the exercise 10 of Gariboldi 58 etudes in switching notes. This is exactly what I would have needed!! Tomorrow im gonna try !

This helped so MUCH!!

I've just begun playing again (after a 40 year hiatus!) and have been struggling with the higher register and tone. This video is a game changer for me! I was so excited when I finally "got it" and the notes rolled out beautifully. Thank you so much for these great tips!

This video is just what i needed to move on from the middel D. :D Your channel are my go to. I am self taught, and started about 3 weeks ago. :D Also a patreon. You do amazing work with the channel. :D

This is so helpful. I admit I started laughing when I was trying to do the HAs though... my laugh muscles got engaged!

That was great!

You are a wonderful teacher-so interesting and kind.

Btw this video helped me soo much. I've im in 3rd year off flute and i've been playing high notes wrong. They sound much better and are much easier to play now! Thank you so much

Aprendendo muito com voce Tatiana!! 😊

Really thanks for you are here!! 💕

That was extremely helpful :)

This was a great exercise ... it worked!! Have to keep practicing this technique so it becomes automatic. High notes have always been a challenge and your explanation of why that is, helped greatly.

I dont realy care what other daid, but i actually learn in your way, and i love it

That flutter intro was siiiiickkk

Thank you. I play the flute and I am out of practice. I bought a new azumi open hole and need help playing higher register so this is a very lovely video

Really good! The part about keeping lips closed and then letting a little air escape. Popped my first G octave and have not even finished the video. (and I have looked at more than one of these high note vids)

Good wishes Thanks

Just realised this octave exists during this vid, and your tip about the middle of the lips and rolling upwards made it really simple. Now, if I could only learn to roll my r's I'd be a happy chappy. That bein' said, after two decades of tryin' methinks I may just never get the knack tbh.

what you teach help me many when i learn and play flute

That helped me with my dizi flute thx

Super nice

Really appreciate . Thanks. Ive benn struggling with high notes. are there any lip strength excercises

thanks , really helpfull

Thanks for this. I get so frustrated sometimes when those high notes aren't coming out (my neighbors do too, I imagine). I also noticed recently that my arms and hands tense up automatically when I'm going into the higher register, and just focusing on them and keeping them relaxed has already helped my sound (I guess because any local tension always affects the body as a whole). I'll definitely apply these tips in my practice today : )

Great tips thank you. I really liked your comments that practice should be about testing boundries too

The lesson was very helpful! I'm learning to play an indian flute (Bansuri), but blowing technics are the same. Thank you!

so helpful and funny ! tnks !

I just learned to play the second octave cleanly like two days ago after struggling for over a week. It may have been harder for me because I'm teaching myself, and I have tmj, so my jaw can get super tense when I experiment with embouchure changes. I found there were two tricks that worked for me. The first trick is, make sure your headjoint is positioned so that the hole in your A key is lined up with the hole in the headjoint. It might sound unimportant, but this actually did matter for me. When I rolled my headjoint out, suddenly my higher notes became unplayable. Now, purse your lips a bit so that your embouchure feels just about big enough to hold a pencil in your lips. Your lips shouldn't be super tense. You don't need an embouchure small enough to hold a grain of rice, just a pencil. The second trick is, rather than blowing like a madman, move your tongue forward a little bit towards the aperture formed by your lips. This automatically speeds up the air coming through the embouchure in exactly the same way that putting your thumb over the end of a garden hose makes the water come out faster. That's all there was to it for me. Using this trick, I've found I can blow softly to get a quiet second octave and harder to get a louder one. The tongue thing works in my third octave too. For some reason, figuring out the second octave was much much harder for me than the third octave.

This is a really good video. Thanks. I'm just working on that. It' s getting better now. I'm a restarter after 22 yeaes of not playing at all and yes I also wanted to force it in the beginning. My son now says it sounds much better what I' m doing now and not so squeeky anymore. But I' m still struggling with Intonation in the third octave and also with playing those notes in pianissimo...... But probably just takes time. It's just 4 months that I resarted. I want to mich at once. Luckily I have a teacher who helps me very much

You deserve more subscribers. This helped me so much, I was getting so frustrated over blowing the notes. So loud and so little margin for error. These exercises really helped. Thank you so much.

very good

I have a student who's really struggling with the middle octaves. Everything I've tried just doesn't help her. This helps me a lot personally, so excited to experiment this with her 😄

Thank. You. So. Much. Thank. You.

Thank you very much for the great video! It realley helped me a lot. And you look pretty, too :)

I’m learning baroque - rather than modern - flute, but I nevertheless find your tips very useful for this instrument! Thanks! 😊

Can you please do a video like this for low notes!? Im havings tons of trouble playing low c, below the staff. I'm in my 3rd year of flute playing

Sometimes is very difficult to explain thigs like that, and you do an AWESOME job!!! Thaks for the tutorial

Thank you