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hi. how do u increase air capacity? no matter how hard i inhale, i still cannot hold notes for long. how do i know if inhaling the "right way"? for vibrato, is it advisable to use both throat and diaphragm to help? my diaphragm is so weak that sometimes i had to use throat to help pushing. does the ...

i have 2 friends who are very interested in learning flute. however they have no music background.. how should i teach?? which are the things that i need to focus on?

i can only hold an octave C note up till 13 seconds, really short breath. any advice to improve on this? i used to have very tight embouchure and locked throat. so my senior advised me to use "poo" syllabus, and let it form its own embouchure. im still working on the opening throat part. however i a...

hi. what kinda warm-up exercises will be good when practising with an ensemble of ten flautists and one piccolo? please advise. thanks

thanks for your advice on embouchure. ok im still quite confused with opening of throat. so i just need to have the feel of yawning when i play the flute and by not pushing down the back of the tongue/ pallate? when i do vibrato, i made used of throat and pushing of diaphragm. do i actually open my ...

i think the most difficult skill to learn is expressing. or maybe it's not even a skill. i've heard many recordings and i do feel a thing for each of them. but when i play it myself, i don't know how to express it... feel myself like a robot. i do practise overtones/harmonics.. but every note sounde...

hi. how do you exactly open your throat? is there an exercise for it? my senior asked me to do this all the time but i seriously have no idea how to. do you actually push down the back of the tongue to open it? and i was thinking of changing my embouchure because i was taught the wrong way in my 1st...

hi i've played flute for almost 7years. my seniors comment that i've a clear and pure tone, maybe the credit goes to the Miyazawa flute which i'm currently using. but i've a very serious problem now, i can't express music well. especially when i'm asked to play very sentimental solos, all i did were...