Denis Bouriakov's Flute Fundamentals - Practice Tips & Articulation

Ever wonder how a professional symphony musician practices? The LA Phil’s Principal Flute Denis Bouriakov has some advice for how to structure your practice to maximize your growth as a musician and maintain peak performance chops!
In this video, you’ll get practice routine tips, articulation insights, and Denis’s personal recommendations on the best etudes for flute players. Happy practicing!
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[@rmarais3929]

Denis is in a word AMAZING !!! Thank you to all involved in creating this masterclass , It is a rare privilege to have access to such a masterful artist and teacher.

[@witneyskye5556]

Hello from Ontario, Canada. I am delighted to have access to this world-class flutist, his wisdom, experience and knowledge. Denis, thank you for sharing your many talents as a musician and teacher. Watching and hearing you is an education, in itself. Priceless.

[@AValente159]

Denis Bouriakov's Flute Fundamentals - Practice Tips & Articulation
INDEX
0:01 - Invested Musician presentation
5:28 - Denis Bouriakov intro
6:00 - Practice when there's only 30 minutes
9:27 - Varied practice
Daily practice / Warm up
11:38 - Harmonics
13:06 - Harmonics: Variations
13:38 - Harmonics: Diminuendo
15:27 - Dynamics x air speed
16:48 - "We never sound the same two days in a row"
17:24 - Scales with musicality
18:20 - Taffanel E.J. 4
Etudes
19:31 - Favourite etudes
20:45 - Moyse: 20 exercises & studies (big intervals)
23:50 - Trills
25:16 - Weaker fingers
26:22 - Moyse: Rigoletto étude
27:37 - If you don't have a lot of time...
Tonguing
28:14 - Quality before speed
28:58 - No tongue -- The most important attack
30:22 - Start 'no tongue'from above
32:08 - 'P' articulation
33:15 - 'K' articulation in slow tempo
Andersen op. 15 no. 9
34:00 - With 'T'
35:30 - With 'K'
37:06 - Alternate 'T' & 'K'
39:04 - Staccato, double tonguing: speed x duration
41:36 - No. 9b
Altès 26 études
42:08 - No. 12 F#M (mandoline)
43:22 - No. 3 BbM ('K'in offbeat)
44:32 - No. 7 Fm (2 legato, 1 sttaccato & al.)
Miscellaneous Qs
46:09 - Intonation: air speed + air direction
49:32 - Position of the tongue
50:04 - Fast: tongue floats in air stream
50:58 - Acoustics of practice room
52:10 - Embouchure in high notes (Prokofiev Classical Symphony mov. II)
53:08 - Air forms the embouchure not the other way around (Denis' embouchure)
54:35 - Finishing high notes ppp "When we get nervous"
55:14 - Special fingerings (for intonation, colour, fake harmonics)
56:39 - Coping with failure: "99% of the time" / "Nobody cares, do your thing"
59:05 - Wrapping up

[@PapiBauby]

this man is a good player, good teacher, strange habits, but very good soul and good musician in the end

[@kobtvster]

Great, I like this way of transferring knowledge to others. I’m with you in spite my age 75.

[@VictorLogan-dm6jg]

Hello from Bumbuna, Sierra Leone. Thank you Dennis for sharing your knowledge
with us

[@gennadygefter4011]

Thank you Denis for sharing your wisdom and musichianship. I belive these advises are helpful for most of developing students as well as for us - teachers.

[@Jesuswinsbirdofmichigan]

Cool, thanks.

[@gillesdumouchel9935]

From Canada Very interesting.

[@davmosh]

I am in johannesburg, South Africa 🇿🇦 👋👋👋

[@chrishayward6714]

Like your playing..approach..lip-air rapport..interesting way to describe what's happening..But…not the only way! Which is good..I,ll follow your classes….

[@mauromh]

From 🇨🇴 Colombia, Cali

[@TIMG128]

very strange embouchure! But blimey it sounds great!

[@brianruskin9241]

Hi I am calling in from Chile.

[@annedawson438]

Lake Macquarie, NSW Australia

[@SmartTricksForHome]

India

[@SmartTricksForHome]

I am trying to play Indian ragas on key flute

[@RubesMate]

Brilliant. Dennis are you aiming the air stream higher on the embouchure as you're playing the harmonics and is this possible on a wooden flute

[@ninoding]

By wooden flute do you mean a concert flute made from wood or a baroque or romantic flute?

[@percyvolnar8010]

YES! It is possible on a wooden flute. non-keyed flute or a keyed flute does not matter. :)

[@lenarydgren8447]

Sweden

[@TaunMiner]

San Antonio, Texas

[@adrianaramos4586]

Mexico

[@percyvolnar8010]

29:26 dinged his flute - But it is platinum so it will survive dings like that. :)

[@ab-zg8pt]

Denis has PS and AL models, which are silver, not platinum

[@percyvolnar8010]

@@ab-zg8pt Thanks! But he still dinged the hell out of his flute......

[@chas5131]

@@ab-zg8pt What make?