Playing the flute is one of the most rewarding hobbies you can do in this life. The flute is a very simple instrument, but if you know how to play it correctly, you can make it one of the most attractive to play.
The flute is an instrument, which has about 8 holes and is an instrument with a sweet and harmonic sound. The key is to plug the correct holes to play the notes that correspond to each hole.
The flute has an elongated shape, in which we have a small whistle at the tip and a hole at the end, which would actually be the ninth hole. What we have to do is blow through the whistle while we cover the holes.
In this way, the air will filter in different ways as we cover the holes, coming out at the end through the final hole and emitting a sound. In this way, a simple instrument can do wonders when it comes to playing sound.
What’s more, the flute is what we all started playing at school and is a bridge to more complex instruments. If you don’t have much of an idea of music, you can learn how to play the flute and then play something more complex with these notions.
We are going to teach you all this , since we are going to learn step by step how to play the flute correctly and without any mistakes. Of course, we are going to teach to play the recorder of a lifetime, not the transverse flute and other types of regional flutes.
Instructions for playing the flute
- Learn the staff and the notes: The first step to learning not only to play the flute, but all the instruments, is to learn to read the musical notes. Let’s say that the place where they are going to be located is the famous pentagram, a kind of canvas where the musicians have their own language. The first thing we are going to see is the key, which is like the indicator of what language we are going to be. The treble clef is almost always used on the flute, which has that characteristic symbol that we all know and have associated with music, which is found at the beginning of the staff. Then we have the compass, which is expressed as a fraction and indicates the duration of the percussions. Then we have the notes, which are drawn in this set of 5 lines and 4 spaces. The most important thing is to know where the notes are in the treble clef and to know how to place them on the lines and spaces. Also, above we have the sustained notes and so on, in which additional lines will have to be drawn to be able to represent. Then, you have to look at how the note is, since if it is a quarter note it is a measure, if it is a half note it is 2 and if it is an eighth note it is a half for example.
- Learning to play the flute: Now that we know how to read the notes, it’s time to learn how to express these notes on the flute. In the flute we have 7 holes above and one below. It is very easy because the holes represent the 7 musical notes and the bottom one must be covered. The holes go from top to bottom in the order of the notes, that is, the first is the do, the second is the re and so on. For standard notes you will have to gradually cover holes. For example, to do the do, only the first one, but for the fa you must cover 4 at a time. As for the sustains, they are made by half or slightly uncovering the hole at the bottom, which makes the difference.
- Start easy: Now that you know how to play notes and how to read staves, it’s time to start playing. Many people make the mistake of starting directly with the complicated, something that should not be done because you are not going to know, you are going to get frustrated and you are going to leave it. So what we should do is start with the easy stuff, for example with simple songs with normal notes and no sharp, sharp, or anything like that. For example, start with songs from primary school music books, which are intended for beginners.
- Practice a lot: Like everything in life, practice makes perfect. For this reason, what we must do is practice a lot, since that way you will improve in the correct way. Start with easy songs and make it a little more complicated. Practice finger placement, not being out of tune, and playing the notes in the correct time signature. Also listen to the original song, to imitate it if you have doubts. A good advice is to play only one song and when you learn it go to the next one, so you don’t forget the other one and you can concentrate on only one thing, making it easier that way.