Are you using the wrong Bb fingering?

No video

Are you using the wrong Bb fingering?

Рет қаралды 5,282

5 жыл бұрын

Controversial...warning..personal opinion...sort of sorry but also not sorry....because I think it does make some good common sense. We essentially have 3 different Bb fingerings and often I see students really shooting their technique in the foot by using the wrong Bb in the wrong situation. Often, when students are learning how to play Bb, they misunderstand or are told the wrong thing. The flute is challenging enough without putting unnecessary obstacles in your way. So start learning the correct Bb fingerings and the correct times to use them!
Check out this flute finger chart for more fingerings: www.tamdistrict.org/cms/lib/C...
___________________________________________________________
The Flute Practice is a fun, supportive, and interactive space that helps flutists from all over the world reach their dream of playing the flute. Change the way you learn the flute and become part of our giant flute family.
Join our flute learning platform here: theflutepractice.com/
Our learning platform offers:
- Online courses and workshops - improve all those things you have been struggling with: scales, bad habits, tone, articulation, intonation, and much more!
- Practice resources - created and curated for your specific needs.
- Plans and guides - to help you order the chaos, structure your practice well and find the right resources and strategies for your level.
- The most supportive and kind communities on the internet (at least we think so!)
_______________________________________________________
Want to buy a new flute? Go check out The Flute Center of New York and what they have to offer www.flutes4sale.com/.
If you use my promo code 'PRACTICE' you will not only be supporting me but also getting:
- Free shipping
- Extended trial period (10 days instead of 7)
- Extended warranty (18 months instead of just 12 months)
Be sure to ask them about all the perks when you call!
______________________________________________________
Follow me on:
Facebook: / flutepractice Instagram: / the_flute_practice
Website: www.theflutepractice.com
Equipment used:
Camera: Canon G7X Mark III amzn.to/36Gt5ao
Microphone: Rode Video Microphone amzn.to/2MnOL6x
Microphone for recording: Rode NT1 amzn.to/3GZZ5sH
This description may contain affiliate links. When you click on the link and purchase items, I earn a commission! This helps support my work and fund future videos like this one!
#flute #flutepractice #flutist

Пікірлер: 48

@Guitarzzzzzzz173 4 жыл бұрын

Though I’ve been playing music since I was 10, I just started playing the flute at 59 years of age. I love watching your vids! They are MOST helpful and provide a much needed humorous side as well - especially being at the beginner stage, when it can sometimes be frustrating. Thank you for posting these! You are also an awesome musician!!😊

@amidala3927 5 жыл бұрын

I never learned the Bb key as a young student--I discovered it on a fingering chart, tried it out, loved it, and never looked back. Later in life, I had a teacher--a professional flutist--tell me that the Bb key was unusual and wrong and I needed to switch to the long fingering. I switched teachers instead.

@TheFlutePractice 5 жыл бұрын

Amidala 😂😂😂 that is a great story! Hehehehe...it is crazy to me that it is taught as the standard figuring 🤦🏻‍♀️

@leo5208 5 жыл бұрын

I'm really surprised how often I see even the most famous world-class flutists using the long fingering when it would obviously be more comfortable and efficient to use the Bb thumb or lever instead. I remember myself, as a beginner, using my left second finger (second knuckle) to close the Bb key directly. I guess I just couldn't trust the linkage to do it.

@noelbrucker135 2 жыл бұрын

Today is the day this 50 year old beginner learned what that Bb key was really for (& not for) - so practical. Off to practice!

@mrs.p.studge4349 5 жыл бұрын

I learned short Bb first, in high school. Not until recently receiving a flute as a gift I've started playing again. (It's been 30 years) I never knew there was an alternative. I've learned more from you than I did 4 years in high school. Thanks for all you do!

@NayKeia 2 жыл бұрын

I was only taught long B flat. So happy to learn this!

@cheriereighard733 3 жыл бұрын

Wow! Makes so much more sense. I was taught to play B FLat with the thumb key was the rare exception. I don't remember, not to say I wasn't told, the reason why. I'm going to start practicing using it today! Thank you.

@acerjuglans 5 жыл бұрын

I learned both fingerings straight away, but then was told to just use the long B key. Not sure why. But it's a horrible habit that has taken decades to break.

@AnnoyingNewsletters 9 ай бұрын

As far as modern instruments being refined over the last century or so, this tutorial illustrated why/how the clarinet was developed to do things differently than the flute. And then the saxophone was developed from the clarinet to address even more needs, like volume, durability, and timbre.

@MattdaFlute 5 жыл бұрын

Good video thankyou for making it. I enjoy your videos very much. The 1 and 1 fingering is so clumsy when we have the Bb thumb key for most tasks. I wish flute players would use what you called the Bb trill key for more chromatic runs. It like the thumb Bb is so much more sonically beautiful . The 1 and 1 fingering is stuffy sounding in comparison because of the venting and quite often flat. Thanks again for your instructive videos. 👍😊

@TheFlutePractice 5 жыл бұрын

Matthew Taylor totally agree!!! I didn’t even get to the slight difference I’m intonation and sound. I have sought of learned to thing of the 1 and 1 fingering as the A sharp fingering. In Debussy Syrinx for example I actually use the Bb trill key instead of the long Bb

@MattdaFlute 5 жыл бұрын

The trill key figuring can be also handy in b major. The key can be left pressed down while playing f# and g# so that you are always ready for the a#. 😊

@Robyn19fnq 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks again Tatiana. I learned all 3 fingerings fairly early on, but because I'm not experienced enough, I still get bogged down sometimes trying to think of which to use in a particular phrase. Your notation remark is absolutely invaluable, thanks.

@alchi7533 5 жыл бұрын

We were just given a piece of paper with regular fingerings. I never knew there were other Bb fingerings because we were taught to just use the one fingering.. I’ve been playing for about 5 years now. This is the first I’ve heard of it.. I really need a new fingering chart. Gonna try to make sure I try this fingering out at some point.

@BodhiFitness 4 жыл бұрын

Was trying to understand the function of the Bb trill key. Thanks for the help! I’m a multi-instrumentalist just coming to the flute. Oboe is my primary and I’ve hit three of the saxophone and flute this year.

@LouisBertrandTech 5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for the details about 3rd octave fingering. When I started, my teacher used the long Bb. Then I took an introductory lesson with another teacher, with good reputation locally. She asked me to do a F scale and immediately moved my thumb to the Bb key. I didn't continue with her, we didn't click and besides she was going on summer vacation. But it was a valuable lesson. When I get something that requires both Bb (A#) and B (Cb), I go for the little key on top.

@happy-ep5xz 5 жыл бұрын

10k subscribers..congratulations 👍🏾

@azizchahbi3538 5 жыл бұрын

Very nice u are so cool.. I learned with at first with the B flat key then I started switching to the long B flat.. but hopefully am used to both

@Magic35dino 5 жыл бұрын

Omg thank you this is sooooo helpful the Bb flate key fingering is a little challenging all the other fingering is more easy 🙏 thank you

@jarofjam3967 5 жыл бұрын

I never used that Bb thumb key or trill key until recently. I used to either think it was useless or awkward, however recently I use it in music where it is necessary, which is quite often. It's kinda fun to me how there's a nice set of cool Bb fingerings up a flutist's sleeve. I love using all 3 where it is appropriate. Personally though I still use the long Bb as a default and use it for scales and other technical practice. I only use the others if it's necessary for a cool little exercise or on music where it's also necessary. I've also encouraged my flute section to use it more.

@abbyizaguirre6192 5 жыл бұрын

Unlike many students I have been doing the opposite. I learned to use the B-flat key since I was learning on my own. Once I started playing in band I was told that the key was very important and that I was doing the right thing. So I have a quite gotten used to using the long be flat fingering.

@christopherriley1968 5 жыл бұрын

I was once told that if B flat is approached from a note in the right hand then use the long fingering, from a note in the left hand then use the thumb key. If played chromatically use the ‘trill’ key. Useful? Great lessons that you give! Thank you! Mr. R. 😀🎶

@jimdunleavypiano 5 жыл бұрын

I learnt both from the start, but always preferred the Bb thumb key because it was so much easier. I've been playing piccolo for 6 months now and the long Bb doesn't work well at all on that so I'm having to get used to using the Bb trill key for chromatic passages (and it's starting to rub off into my flute playing as well, so double bonus).

@BrunoNeureiter 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you very very much

@isabelamoore337 5 жыл бұрын

I was taught the short Bb when I started marching band my 8th grade year and I use it almost all the time & now I’m a senior

@leo5208 5 жыл бұрын

Very good presentation. Now do the two F# fingerings (or three, if you include the first finger directly on the F# key - or four, if you include the brossa F# lever, if you know about it).

@belle369 5 жыл бұрын

I found out I was doing E flat wrong after 6 years of playing it wrong.. It’s so confusing to me 😂

@graciebarlow7284 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@k.ravishankar5063 5 жыл бұрын

Fine useful tutorial

@jfalldine 5 жыл бұрын

I totally agree!

@Neptuna15 5 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for this video. I always enjoy your videos. As i‘m teaching myself on the flute they help me a lot! And just today i was thinking about asking you to make a video about this very subject. I learned to use both fingerings but to never slide the thumb from one key to the other. But sometimes i‘m not sure wich key to use. For example Taffanel & Gaubert Number one, lower register without any c‘s or c sharps to move the thumb to the B flat key: (third row). E flat - F - G - A flat - B flat. Of course i would use the B flat key, if i would play just the scale this sequence belongs to. But as the key changed from line to line i play it with the B natural key, which is uncomfortable for me. I hope i described it well enough. What would you recommend? Greetings from Germany

@topdeckortutor 3 жыл бұрын

this is why learning flute from a book and fingering chart is not ideal. I had no idea you could press the Bb key and play other notes at all (never even tried). also had no idea about the alternate (long) Bb fingering although it makes sense since the recorder fingering is very similar.

@zengier9191 3 жыл бұрын

I found someone saying that the long bflat should bethe last resort with Bb trill key is second to the thumb key

@graciebarlow7284 5 жыл бұрын

Love this

@nikkilynne7611 4 жыл бұрын

Ugh I wish I knew this I was learning a new song with b natural and it’s so different

@carlpriamesaro931 3 жыл бұрын

Ummm what if my peace is F major but in the middle of the peace is having accidental natural B

@simranruparelia8176 5 жыл бұрын

I actually got taught the shorter one first.... weird

@fartwrangler 4 жыл бұрын

Heh. Right on. :)

@lisacoddington6014 Жыл бұрын

If you almost exclusively use the b flat key do you even bother when playing in a key signature which doesn’t require b flat? (Just to keep the habit going) I am not used to it so of course it’s like one more thing to think about like key signature, dynamics, pitch etc. but I can see it would be worth it once it becomes second nature

@laurino. 5 жыл бұрын

When i started (this year) i was playing it like you do but then my teacher told me not to play it like that XD

@acerjuglans 5 жыл бұрын

My teacher told me the same thing almost 40 years ago. It's a very rough habit to break 😕

@carolinafluteman6598 3 жыл бұрын

I'm just going by what the fingering chart says...

@petitroque1499 2 жыл бұрын

On the clarinet, the Bb flute long fingering produces an Eb. It's the alternate fingering for our normal Eb. Same trick 🙂 I use it when the next or previous fingering uses nearly the same fingerings as the long Eb fingering... which I have to mark on my sheet, cuz, in sight reading, it's not something I would come up with naturally... We have 3 different fingerings for that Eb. 🤕 Tnx a lot for your tip here, cuz I'm using the long Bb fingering all the time on the flute. I need to fix this now!! Tnx Tatiana!!

@BrunoNeureiter 5 жыл бұрын

You also look like my old piano teacher but prettier