You are a great teacher! Thanks for sharing your experience with us.

thank you very much brent! amazing greetings from belgium

Thanks! Mode 4?! Grabs flute 🎶🎶🎶🎶🧙‍♂️🙏

Thanks mate. The only thing is missing in this great video is the breath during the exercise.

Nice work, good video, welcome the motivation. Go well Black Peace Eagle

Thank you for sharing this. I’m at the beginning stages with my Stellar Flute in the key of G. I’m having difficulties with finger placement on the bottom hole. I’m working on it, and practicing every day, so seeing your different finger placements is helpful.

I'm glad I noticed this in your reply to someone else on the Enthusiasts group on FB. Nice to see you Brent.

Great advice about starting on a different not from the flute’s key. Our ears naturally remember the first note and assume it’s the key center. Wherever you start on the song’s journey, our ears like it when we return (resolve a phrase or end the song) by returning to where we started. In a way, we are all snake charmers. We set the tone and the listener is mesmerized by it. 😀

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Thank you!!

Excellent advice

Thank you for your help.

Thanks for the lesson, this was great and I can feel it improving my playing already!

I do those exercises as a warm-up and to remind me of the possibilities in creating songs. I find all of it fun. Just creating joyous noises is fun. Imitating birds. All fun. Heck, I love just holding some of my flutes. Thank you for the concise review for new flute players. I will forward this to my sister-in-law who got her first flute on Christmas and is ready to move beyond the basic pentatonic scale. I will be sure to contact you when I hit my next roadblock. Thanks again!!

Thank you🙏❤

Breathing is important. One Breath Solo!

I tought that I had many flutes but when I look around in your room......... Nice explaning greetings from A flute player from Holland

Yes Brent. I do move the bird slightly until I get the best sound. Especially on the hike next to lowest. That is the tough one. I move the bird and play the minor scale until I feel it sound just right.

Thank you so much!! I’m fairly new at this, and I love the Native American style flute! I do want to constantly get better and this gave me a number of ways to help achieve my desire! Louise J

Hi Brent, Finally, thanks to your video I will be getting past the problems I encountered learning to play the flute. You have pointed the missing links I needed so badly.

Am I the only one, maybe? Unlike all your wonderful song videos, I had trouble hearing the audio on this and your drone flute comparison video, Brent. Keep 'em coming! Your videos are awesome. And yes, like others I'm sure, I am plagued with flute envy!

Lovely instructional video Brent and the sound on your recent videos is awesome. Thank you for your efforts mate

Thanks for the advice!

That was indeed very helpful! Thank you! And happy Thanksgiving

Great job buddy learned alot

Thanks for the tips. It will be helpful in improving my journey with the Native American flute.

Great video Brent very helpful.

Brent, nice video with some great recommendations. I wish I had this when I was trying to teach the several groups of senior citizens and a couple groups of 5th grade students how to play. A few of them "caught on" and continue to play, but I'll bet more would have it I had this video back then. Anyway, taught me a couple of things too.

Brent, Thanks so much for the response. The problem I mentioned seems to be in mostly all my flutes, especially my mid range like my G & F#, and my low E. If I am coming down from the higher notes to the lower notes, it usually isn’t a problem. If I go to hit those lower two notes specifically, especially if I want to staccato them, not happening. They don’t squeak. I barely get the notes out. It drops off. Or I cannot find the note at all. Sound mostly like air being released. I am watching my breathing. More breath on higher notes, less on the lower notes. I feel I have all the finger holes covered.

Ok Brent, I tried your exercise. I did it in front of a mirror. Covered all five holes, etc. I was squeaking like crazy with the burst of air on raising the finger on the last hole & two fingers on the next hole up. And a few minutes of frustration doing this, on two different flutes, a light bulb went off. I am using too much air on those last two holes. I am trying to project too much sound from those two lower note holes. They need to be played very softly. I have to work on my breath control on those two holes. But I am doing much better. Your exercise helped me to realize this. Thank you so much. Made a mistake on one or two flutes. My first flute was an walnut ‘G’ from Appalachian Flutes. My cheaper flute bought off Esty. I have a Maple high ‘F#’ and a mid range Spanish Cedar ‘F#’ from High Spirits Flutes. I have a Purpleheart high ‘B’ from Marvin Yazzi. And I have an American Cherry mid ‘F#’ with wet out protection, and a low Zebrawood ‘E’ from Ancient Territories (John Stillwell). We could do the phone thing. A zoom would be better. I could do it on my laptop. Thank you wanting to help me. I do want to improve. I love these flutes, since the first time I heard one. Any other suggestions about good flutes & flute makers would be appreciated. Thank you so much for getting back to me and your help. I am going to watch more of your videos. Keep up the great work. Sincerely, Bob

Love the sound on this flute!! Hoping to discover the key of this as i am about to make a purchase. This is my favorite sounding one out of like, 10 different videos ive watched but this one doesn't show the key

I am trying your exercise covering all the holes and making sure my fingers are centered. I bring it up to my mouth and just play the note long and steady. Once I try raising the finger off the bottom home and do the burst of air, I am actually getting so much squeaking. The same when I lift two fingers off from the bottom. I am looking at my fingering in the mirror too. I have a ‘G’ (my first flute) from Apelecian Flutes made of Walnut. My beginner cheap flute. I have a Maple high F# & Mid range Spanish Cedar F# from High Spirits. I have a Bb from Marvin Yazzi made from Purpleheart. And a mid range American Cedar F# & low Zebrawood ‘E’ from Ancient Territories (John Stillwell)

Great video. Do you ever use several scales within the same song?

Hello Brent, Thank you for all the tips on the flute playing. You have given me some ideas to try some new exercises so not to get in that slump in my playing. My one major problem is hitting those two lowest notes (5 & 6 holes all covered), when I need just “them.” I play them find when coming down leading into them, but if I just want to hit those two notes, I struggle. Any suggestions? Thanks, Bob

Do you believe it is possible to play Native American flute music using a Chinese Dong Xiao in the key of G? The techniques are very similar (slides & flutters.)

thnx for this.. would a drone flute be a decent choice for my 1st flute?

How do you make different sounds with your mouth to make the notes sounds different. If you could make a video to how you are blowing each note for one song exercise to practice that would be helpful. Thank you! You play very nicely!

What flute is that and what key?