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its kinda something similiar to the weakest link quote but more direct. its something my band director says all the time to the cocky trumpet players when they would brag about how high they can go. what i mean is, if you work out your muscles on your low octaves, it will help with the high octaves ...

this may sound corny...but hear me out sounds to me like your playing notes on the page and not music (to quote Mr. Holland) dont play with your mouth or air or hands...play with your heart...make each note mean everything to you and expose your soul for everyone to hear, dont be so careful, if you ...

its alittle bit of both

just work out your embrouchureand build it up...
do scales that start the lowest note and go the highest note...gradually working up to the super C


you can only go as high as your lowest low

okay, i just started on piccolo but ive progressed pretty well considering i practice in my sleep and all...yea...in one of our pieces were playing for christmas, theres a piccolo/flute section and it consists of Bb twice above the staff....now my question is is there anyway i can make that note com...

okay...thanks for the advice...it really helped alot...but i have another question for you...ive had the piccolo for alittle more than a week...well, ive been having to practice that thing more often than my flute cuz i had to learn three movements for a marching show on it...but i would still play ...

okay, im starting on piccolo for the first time after playing flute for 5 years. i can get some notes out but not enough to know if im playing it correctly. so my questions is......how do i postion my mouth? how are my lips? what are they compaired to a flute embrousure? basically.....how do i play ...

okay, in my bands marching show, theres a flute solo...in the solo there is a 32nd run of the Aflat scale, starting on Eflat in the staff and ending of F above the staff. the tempo is 154. ive found alternate fingerings to "fake" notes and i basically know how to work it out, starting off at a redic...