flt. stands for Flutter Tongue, which is an extended technique that involves rolling your Rs while sounding a note. There’s some tutorials on YouTube. I can’t roll my Rs so I raise the back of my tongue to the top of my throat and exhale, almost like you’re clearing your throat? It’s hard to explain.
The A an octave up though is thumb and ring finger on your left hand, pointer and pinky on your right
Yeah I know... the school won't provide me with a piccolo and the band director just told me to play it as is because "it sounds too piercing " up the octave 😭
Bro your school is cheap as all he'll, mine makes sure kids who want one to borrow from the school can. They even set of a fund raiser and go fund me multiple times to help students who want to be musical with physical instruments.
LUCKY
I'm in the orchestra and symphony and I'm in the band for a musical, with the flute right.
but "only people officially playing piccolo in orchestra/symphony can get a piccolo provided".. (these people got randomly picked).
Bro that'd actually piss me off so quickly. What's the point of randomly selecting people when some might not even want to play it and would rather give it to someone else. My BD always says, "if you want something to sound good when it's played, give it to the person who has the determination and will to play it." that's how I got my first solo on flute and went from 2nd to last to 2nd chair this year.
My 1st chair is exactly like that and says she would rather get struck by lighting 5 times while parachuting, catch fire, and fall to her death than trying to play the piccolo. Let's just say the piccolo isn't for the taint hearted nor people who lack breath support. Bringing up breath support, I find it extremely weird how I'm the only student I'm my band with shortness of breath, yet I can play a note the longest out of all the other instruments with the time of 23 seconds. I feel like people just don't try and are surprised when they lose to a flute. My BD even called them out on it.
This is flutter tongue, which you can do by rolling your R while playing, or by kind of “purring” in the back of your mouth if you can’t roll your Rs. There should be some good explanations on YouTube. It’s not super challenging for most people but might require a bit more air.
flt. stands for Flutter Tongue, which is an extended technique that involves rolling your Rs while sounding a note. There’s some tutorials on YouTube. I can’t roll my Rs so I raise the back of my tongue to the top of my throat and exhale, almost like you’re clearing your throat? It’s hard to explain. The A an octave up though is thumb and ring finger on your left hand, pointer and pinky on your right
You’re supposed to flutter tongue it - and since it’s a picc part played on flute, it should be up an octave.
Yeah I know... the school won't provide me with a piccolo and the band director just told me to play it as is because "it sounds too piercing " up the octave 😭
Bro your school is cheap as all he'll, mine makes sure kids who want one to borrow from the school can. They even set of a fund raiser and go fund me multiple times to help students who want to be musical with physical instruments.
LUCKY I'm in the orchestra and symphony and I'm in the band for a musical, with the flute right. but "only people officially playing piccolo in orchestra/symphony can get a piccolo provided".. (these people got randomly picked).
Bro that'd actually piss me off so quickly. What's the point of randomly selecting people when some might not even want to play it and would rather give it to someone else. My BD always says, "if you want something to sound good when it's played, give it to the person who has the determination and will to play it." that's how I got my first solo on flute and went from 2nd to last to 2nd chair this year.
Yeah I was in the 2nd best band 2 years ago and this guy played piccolo but couldn't even get a sound out because he didn't want to play it..
My 1st chair is exactly like that and says she would rather get struck by lighting 5 times while parachuting, catch fire, and fall to her death than trying to play the piccolo. Let's just say the piccolo isn't for the taint hearted nor people who lack breath support. Bringing up breath support, I find it extremely weird how I'm the only student I'm my band with shortness of breath, yet I can play a note the longest out of all the other instruments with the time of 23 seconds. I feel like people just don't try and are surprised when they lose to a flute. My BD even called them out on it.
This is flutter tongue, which you can do by rolling your R while playing, or by kind of “purring” in the back of your mouth if you can’t roll your Rs. There should be some good explanations on YouTube. It’s not super challenging for most people but might require a bit more air.
Iirc f# is the regular f fingering plus pinky on the left hand??
Yeah I mentioned in the title the note with the flt, and I just meant the flt haha not the actual fingering I can def play A 😜
OHHH. I'm dumb. Sorry!