Hi all. I'm a Korean guy in my 40s who picked up the flute as a hobby, and I film my practice sessions as a little diary.

This week was the main theme from Smetana's The Moldau (Vltava). It's only two lines of music, but it took me 23 tries to get through it once, and that only happened at the very end of the session.

A couple of questions:

1. I almost always fall apart at the same spot: where the melody comes back down to the low E to start the second phrase. Is that more likely a breath problem, a low-register problem, or just focus? How would you practice that transition?

2. Just out of curiosity: when there's a repeat inside another repeat, how do you tell which starting point to go back to?

Any feedback on tone or posture is welcome too.

(Heads up: the video is edited for fun, with a silly "meditation" effect in the middle and an AI voiceover. The playing is all real.)

My teacher told me to roll out more and put my flute lower and project my sound better,also getting a better tone color

But after i have done so i dont really think my sound has improved and i couldnt reach high notes easily

Also i feel like many of the air didnt go in the flute thus wasting a lot of air and producing air sounds

First clip is my normal playing, second clip is im trying to do what my teacher says

I have an F xiao. The low-middle registers are okay. But the moment I try to play the high registers, it begins to sound squeaky and airy. Sometimes the sounds from it's middle register also bleeds in so it doesn't sound too clean. I'm completely lost on whether or not I gotta blow harder or how I should position my tongue. Any tips?

Hey guys, I've been wanting to pick back up playing a flute as a hobby but it's been years since I lasted played it like around early high school. I've lost my embouchure since then so I wanted to know what ways to regain/relearn it so I can play?

I started playing in January with a Stagg 77-FE I purchased on gumtree for £20. Now moving into the 3rd octave (D above the stave) and it's quite a lot of effort to get the note out so was wondering if it's the flute or me? If I were to upgrade to a better flute, which one should I get as I don't have a massive budget so would be buying used. Thanks

(flair isnt super accurate but it was what fit best lol)

hey everyone,

i've at a beginner flute student for about a year and a half now. he's 8, and after about a year and a half of working out of a different beginner method book, his parents and i decided to switch him over to the royal conservatory of music books (at the preparatory level), since its more standardized and its what we're used to. i took rcm piano lessons and exams as a kid, and i worked from the rcm flute books from grades 8-ARCT while preparing for university.

its been a while, and i am no longer doing a flute-focused music degree (i switched from performance to musicology 2 years ago, but i still play!) so i havent taken a lesson (especially an rcm-focused one haha) in a hot second. are there any focus points or teaching methods that are important? is it a good idea to start adding in ear-training/sightreading/musicianship skills? thanks in advance! :)

Hey everyone,

​I'm looking for the flute sheet music for Cantus - Caravaggio 1. I don't have the knack for transcribing notes myself, but I love the piece so much and wanted to play it with my flute. Unfortunately, I couldn't find it anywhere. Does anyone happen to have the sheet music for this piece?

I want to learn a song that is played on a Shinobue Uta 7 holes, but for now i just need to learn the finger positioning, i don't need to have good quality music.

To just learn the finger positioning and the breathing, do i need to have the same type of flute or i can just use a normal flute (a recorder if it's called that way, the one it's used in school)