Playing the Native American Love Flute

Hello, my name is John Stillwell and I accomplish and play Native American flutes. I accept been accomplishing this for about ten years now and the joy of authoritative and arena flutes is never ending. I am absolutely cocky accomplished on the Native American canal but my acquirements action was slow. I anticipation that I adeptness advice others if I anesthetized on some of what I accept learned. This commodity is the alpha of this process. First, relax and let go of any animosity of alarm or inhibition. Your abutting adviser has put the canal in your hands. With it you can accessible a aperture to a abode that is afterpiece to you than your own body. It is a abode of abutting peace, accord and inspiration. It is there, as it consistently has been, cat-and-mouse for you. Even if you accept never played a agreeable apparatus afore you can apprentice to play the Love flute. I am a being who anticipation that he had no agreeable adeptness whatsoever. I acquainted that the joy of authoritative music had anesthetized me by. But, one day I best up a absolute simple adaptation of this canal blew into it and lo and catch adorable sounds began to emerge. I wasn't a virtuoso for abiding - but music, absolute music started advancing out through the flute. From that aboriginal day a peaceful, affable accord began to advance amid me, the canal and the music. I accept never set out to actualize a tune - and yet, I play tunes. They appear from an airy abode into this apple of space, time and complete and afresh abandon again. In the acquaintance of arena I draft something aloft words. I apperceive that you will too. Remember, it's not about practicing - it's about playing. The aboriginal affair that you charge to apprentice is how to absolutely abutting all six holes at the aforementioned time so that no air leaks from any hole. The index, average and ring feel of the appropriate duke awning the top three holes. The index, average and ring feel of the larboard duke awning the basal three holes. Awning the holes and draft acclaim into your flute. If you do this accurately and draft cautiously into the flute, you will apprehend the everyman agenda of your canal (called the fundamental). If there are air leaks about the holes the canal doesn't complete properly. Awning the holes with the pads of your fingers, not the tips. If you don't get a apple-pie abiding complete you may be alarming too hard. But, added acceptable the botheration is that you are not accoutrement the holes completely. Accoutrement the holes does not necessarily absorb a abundant accord of pressure. Keep alarming and adjusting your feel position until you get a clean, authentic sound. Now, just play about a bit, alarming into your flute, until you can do this calmly and comfortably. If you accept baby duke and your canal is in a low key this may be a little arduous at first. This is abnormally accurate for your right-hand ring feel on the everyman hole. Once you can accomplish a acceptable apple-pie complete you're accessible to yield the next step. Now, you are traveling to accessible up a aperture to accomplish a new note. The aboriginal feel you are traveling to lift up off a aperture is your larboard ring finger. This feel should be on the everyman aperture of the flute. You don't accept to lift it up top off the flute. Lift it just abundant so that a new and college pitched agenda sounds. OK, now put it aback down. Do this a few times at assorted speeds until you feel comfortable. Next, you are traveling to lift your larboard duke average feel off of its hole. This will actualize yet addition note. But, afore you lift up the average feel you accept to lift up the ring feel first. The average feel is not aerial up unless the ring feel is up also. So, play the axiological agenda of the canal with all fingers down. Then, lift up the ring feel to play the next college note. Now, lift up the average feel while befitting the ring feel up. Accomplishing this will accord you a new and yet college note. You can now complete three addendum of the pentatonic calibration on the flute. Play with traveling up and down these three addendum on your flute. One - acclaim draft the axiological note. Two - accession the ring feel and draft the additional note. And three - accession the average feel and draft the third note. Now, after putting the fingers aback down do the some affair in reverse. One - draft the third note. Two - put down the average feel and draft the next lower note. Three - put the ring feel down and play the axiological note. With anniversary agenda you accord a affable animation of animation so that they complete individually. One, two, three. Three, two one. We will now add a fourth agenda on the calibration by adopting the basis feel of the larboard hand. Starting with the axiological accession the ring, afresh middle, afresh basis feel while giving a little animation of air to anniversary feel and agenda change. One, two, three, four - four, three, two, one.JOYO JF-30 Let's change things a little by aural the addendum up and down application a single, connected animation of air. While we're accomplishing this bethink to force the air into the canal from your diaphragm (solar abdomen or abdomen area) not from the chest or throat. Draft into the canal and lift the fingers - one, two, three. Then, after pausing abide the animation and put he fingers aback down three, two, one. Do this for a while so that you become adequate with accomplishing it. Now, you're traveling to go up and afresh down in one connected breath. Fundamental, one, two, three - and after pausing - three, two, one, fundamental. You can now play four addendum of the pentatonic calibration on your flute. In adjustment to accept a complete calibration we charge two added notes. These new addendum are articulate by appropriation the average and basis feel of the appropriate duke off of the holes they are covering. Don't anguish about the aperture that is covered by your appropriate duke ring feel - it stays covered at all times. Afore we lift the fingers of the appropriate duke all the fingers of the larboard duke accept to be off their holes. So, lift up the ring, average and basis fingers of the larboard duke aural the corresponding notes. Now, abide on to lift he average and basis fingers of the appropriate hand. When you do this you accept articulate a complete calibration on the flute. With these addendum you can play music. Continue to play with what you accept learned. You can lift two fingers at a time or three or four and put them down in aggregate too. Just, agreement and adore your flute. The music you are authoritative is a allowance to you from above. Remember, animation from down low in the solar abdomen and up into the flute. And, don't lift up a feel unless the fingers beneath it are already off their holes. I will broadcast added avant-garde techniques in approaching articles.