Flute and Whistle Tutorials
A Basic Light-hearted Flute Tutorial
OK so you're a whistle player and you want to learn the flute. Armed with your favourite tune, it's up to the lips and away...
If you are blessed with natural ability don't bother reading any further.
If you are struggling to play through the mist of tears, lets see what we can do to help...
Go to the (very) basic flute tutorial here...
A Gentle Whistle Tutorial
If I had a note for every time a would-be whistler asked me for a tutor to go with their newly acquired instrument ‘that starts at the very basics’ I would be the richer by a good length tune indeed.
Many bits and pieces of tunes are stored in your head only requiring the vehicle to set them free. So, in a sense, you don’t need to start at the beginning, you’ve already done that.
When teaching young people I deliberately don’t play for them. In that way they are not impeded by the steep hill of negative thought that goes something like “I’m never going to be able to play like that”; they have nothing to compare their initial efforts with, and progress comes the quicker for it.
For older students it is slightly harder; their interest has probably been awakened by a recording of a professional performer. In this case the first few notes can be unrealistically, but understandably, very disappointing, triggering the same response, “I’m never going to be able to play like that”. Listen, just grab hold of it, shuffle your fingers into the right places (hopefully the diagrams will assist here) and...
...make with Lesson One - be positive.
