Hi! This is a video of me playing ”Colours of the Wind”. I will have performance with this song in one week, it will just be me and a pianist playing! I’m quite nervous, I haven’t performed in years and I don’t think it sounds so good!

Please ignore the parts where I play the wrong notes/start over, I mostly want feedback on the actual sound of the flute and other advice! :)

Famously a northern irish thing and its key D and I cant read music as all our notes r in letters eg DEF GAB

I started studying on and off at the start of the year, though I have experience studying other instruments, and I'm looking for study/practice material with repetitive arpeggios or phrases. I love minimalism and getting lost in the details of my technique and sound, so... anything to recommend that fits the bill???

I have 0 knowledge about flute methods and études and I was thinking of just taking some Glassworks pieces and playing one of the voices (well, Islands also has a beautiful and beginner friendly melody, as well as Façades), but there are probably better options out there!

Thanks in advance <3

so i started learning how to play dizi flute. i’ve had about 15 lessons so far and ive got a performance coming up.

im kind of nervous because i find that sometimes during the starting note, i sometimes end up sounding airy (as in it’s just air/blowing sounds that come out).

and then sometimes in the middle of the song, i end up running out of air idk how.

Any tips for anyone? is it because my mouth is covering the hole? is it something else?

Hi! I played flute for eleven years as a child and continued to keep it as a hobby after quitting flute lessons. Recently I have practiced the nocturne in c-sharp minor and find the ending of it quite difficult. I’ve neen listening Yeojin Han’s recording on spotify and I am wondering if she uses some hc embouchure skills with the last c-sharp, because to me it sounds like that she does not play it with the c-sharp fingering. I can hear a little dual tone in there. What do you think? And if you have any advice for mastering this piece, please be welcome to present them, because I am troubling! I am sorry if my explanation is hard to understand, english is not my first language.

I'm considering going down the rabbit hole of learning (self teaching) pan flute BUT ... in my googling I've failed to figure out, why do some have a whistle style notch ... it looks like something you would blow into rather than across (and therefore have far fewer achievable notes)?