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I've started incorporating flute in some of my gigs (folk-rock, with some jazz and blues elements), and it's a big step for me -- harmonica is my primary instrument, and have played that professionally for 20 years. Currently I'm playing flute into a vocal mic, on a stand, with the mic at the headjo...

Harmonica = more than 25 years, semipro (a couple of gigs a week) Flute = About 2 years, taking my time learning it Piano = Pretty much limited to left-hand chord triads and melody/solo line with right hand. I use this more for arranging. Highly recommend all musicians learn at least that much piano...

I'm also 47, and picked up the flute a couple of years ago as a "second instrument" (my main instrument is harmonica, which I've been playing semiprofessionally for 20 years). I've been taking my time with flute, more having fun with it, but the musical background sure helps. Plus, as I get older, I...

Sounds like they're jamming. Most sax players I know would rather jam than eat. But since I'm such a jammin' fool myself, I'd more than likely have a seat with them, take a turn, have a little fun, and show 'em something (maybe an improvisational free-fall?) And if it's the same song they've been no...

One of the albums Ian practically wore out while learning his instrument was "I Talk With The Spirits" by Roland Kirk. In fact, If I remember straight he covered Kirk's "Serenade To A Cuckoo" from that album. Kirk was one of the originals at singing over the mouthpiece. That CD has since been reissu...

Broccoli's great, I love it, but it always gives me bad GAS!! Unless I dress it up with some Beano, I'd feel real bad for the drummer -- he's sitting BEHIND me!!

Full meal? No way. Only time I tried that before a gig (a blues set, playing harmonica) it affected my breathing and it was a battle not to lose said full meal all over the stage. Never again. Wouldn't recommend that for anyone playing a wind instrument or voice. Something light works for me -- like...

Some instruments also can work with a throat
vibrato (best way I can describe it is, think of snoring into the instrument.)
I'm wondering ... would this work on flute too? I'm real curious.

Extending this further, you can take your C major scale (white keys on the piano) and, playing the same notes, get 7 other scales ... the aeolian mode, as mentioned, is one of them. It's the Am scale, pitched around the 6th note (A). You can also get a D dorian mode out of those notes, which is also...

I've been fortunate. From playing harmonica semiprofessionally for nearly 20 years (all genres, especially jazz & blues), I've come to rely on my ear. Here's the hitch, though ... I've been a little slow to improve my sight-reading (which I'm rather halting and sloppy at it). I think unconsciously I...

Getting back to the original subject (heh-heh), I'm 46 and have been fooling around with flute for about a year. Learning at my own pace, self-taught, playing for my own pleasure. Played harmonica semi-professionally for about 15 years (read: paid gigs but working a day job). Always wanted to get in...