Learning Flute - Flutist are singers through fingers.

In order to learn flute you must learn 3 things.

1. How to practice with your fingers.

2. How to understand melodies and timings

3. How to get feeling inside your music?

Getting Started. 

Path to play beautiful music?  It is a path that need to be treaded.

Finger plans & Finger Exercise suitable for both Classical and Light Music Learning

3 Principles to follow are as below.

Finger Training:

1. Right Flute

2. Right Finger Setting (30 days)

3. Side Flute (Next 30 days)

Ear Training:

Rythm (Ears) - Good Swar Control 

Sensing Timing 

Heart: 

Only after 100 days - feelings creation 

    Soft or meend - It is like gliding fingers

    Gamak - Fingers go like waves.

    Stroking - require tongue 

Right Flute

D sharp 16 inches straight Flute Rs 500

A Scale 23 inches INR 3700

Already have a Scale - Its ok.

Right Finger Setting (30 days)

For Right Finger setting and For right blowing it is a easy in straight flute. It lets you know the finger settings.

7 Days for Sargam.

How to play Sa, Re, Ga, Ma? playing finger setting with FINGER CHARTS.

Soft and Hard Blowing Pressure.

Next 30 Days, Alankars (Patterns) - 3 swaras patter, helps to move our fingers in good patterns. It develops motor skills in patterns. Fingers need

A scale is 23 inches flute - a medium sized flute. It is easy to go to E  scale (Big flute) and it is also easy to goto C scale flute (small flute). A scale flute has a bass. C scale will have high pitch, it may not be good to hear when you are learning.

How to check for a good flute?

Distance between holes are different. It is Hole diameter is different. Hole number 5 is bigger. No maintenance cost. It is one time investment. Bamboo flute will shrink, quality will increase. 

Right Sound (10 - 15 days)

How to get perfect sound?

Air should be blown 90 degree. If done in an angle and blown 0 degree then only hissing sound will come. Soft blowing to be done. 

Ensure holes are closed completely, if anything is open then hissing sound will come.

Right Posture - No tips 

Good Swar Control - We play long notes to gain control. One breath One note (Sa, Re), lungs will improve its capacity. It is like pranayam, it is like yoga. Intially it will be shaky, as you practice it will improve. Initially when writing, it will be shaky, but as you practice it will become better. Each Note is a frequency. Every song will have a frequency. Like Vande Mataram - Sa, Re, Ma, ma pa pa, Ni sa, Ni sa. You should translate melody to frequency.

It give you peace, and calms us down.

Sense of timing

Improve the distance between the swar. It is the tal. Like 1, 2, 3, 4. Time into space. It is about the timing setting between swar. It is like looking at the timing in clock.

Try Melodies or Songs

Read & Play (Simple Melodies)

Try on your own (Forget)

Permutation

Flutist are singers through fingers.

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