Balancing Your Flute Apple Red Guo Tocco C Flute - FluteTips 175
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- Balance is an issue that can keep you from playing your best. If your hands are incorrectly balanced on the flute, it will hamper your technique and your tone. With a correctly balanced flute, your hands will be free to move as quickly as you want them to.
Join me as I explain some common balance problems and how to fix them. When these areas are addressed, you’ll be amazed at how much better your playing feels.
Balancing Your Flute Apple Red Guo Tocco C Flute - FluteTips 175
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Guo Tocco C-Flute - New composite headjoint and body, closed hole, Low C footjoint. Textured exterior for better grip and wood-like appearance. Apple Red colored tube, white mechanism. Weight: 235g / 8.3oz.
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I remember having a big flute wobble when playing the 2nd C# as a beginner :) All fine now though. I've been playing for 39 years. Yiikes!
Yes that wobble is common! I’m glad you were able to fix it long ago. Congrats on you longevity!
This is really helpful. I just got a flute yesterday and I've been struggling with sore hands. Some of it is just getting used to the positioning, but I'd been relying on my fingers to "squeeze" onto the flute rather than resting on my fingers (especially my left index finger). Thank you!
I am so happy to help. It will be so much more fun to play now!
Its so important to get a correct grip. You need to be able to hold the flute comfortable for a relatively long time.
So true. You won’t play for very long if your hands are not in a natural comfortable position.
@@DoctorFlute especially as we get older too, my hands are not as flexible as they used to be.
❔️Do you hold the flute with the keys straight up, with the thumb keys under the flute, or are they at an angle, with the thumb keys behind the flute? I've tried holding/playing the flute with keys straight up, with thumb under, and I feel so much tension that way (with my thumb directly under) I'm not sure what is proper. Are the keys angled up and away and the thumbdown, but towards your body, or should I hold the flute with the keys facing the ceiling and the thumb facing the floor? I'm trying to focus on not being so tense. My hands feel a little better when the flute is on an angle, but I'm not sure if this is the correct placement.
czcams.com/video/vy3IS4slgvQ/video.html and czcams.com/video/FSbVv4vQsAw/video.html I think these two videos on both hands can answer your questions. Watch them and see if it helps. You definitely do not want the thumb key directly under the flute. The thumb key should be coming from the back of the flute so that your hand is a natural position. Let me know if your issues are answered by watching these two videos.
@@DoctorFlute thank you so much. Your videos and the way you've explained it help a lot. I am legally blind so I always appreciate the detailed description.
I have a 'flute-lump' - a callous on the side of the index finger on my left hand when the hand contacts the body of the flute. It grows continuously. I have to keep hacking it down. Do you know of this phenomenom? I'm wondering what other people do. If I don't trim it down for a week I start getting pins and needles in that finger.
Wow! No I don’t know anyone with that problem. I don’t have a callous just a deep indent. Are you using a lot of pressure pushing that finger against the flute?
@@DoctorFlute I didn't think so?