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Alieannie
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Wow, that's great you just started playing! Have fun! What brand of flute did you get?
As far as tone is concerned, give yourself time. Players have taken years and years to improve and nearly perfect their tone. So be easy on yourself and give yourself some time. I think the way most of us improve our tone is simply by listening to everything you play, and make it sound as beautiful as possible. At first that will be difficult, as you are still learning the mechanincs of how to hold the dang thing, fingerings for notes, and that sort of thing. But once that stuff starts to become second nature, you will be able to more easily focus on the tone aspect.
There are specific exercises called "longtones" which are used to improve tone. They are simply that, long tones played so you can really hear how your tone sounds on a sustained note. If your tone sounds beautiful on a long tone, it will sound beautiful on a short note. When listening to yourself play a long tone, you will strive to play the best, most beautiful tone you can make, making minute adjustments once you've found an ideal sound, or experimenting with your embouchere if your sound is a little less than acceptable. Once you have one great solid note, you will play a long, solid note to an adjacent note, striving to blend that great note to all of your notes, one note at a time. Others can probably sum it up better; hope that makes sense.
Books that have printed exercises can be purchased, and these help immensly. For someone newer to the flute, I'd recommend Trevor Wye's practice book #1 tone. And while we're on the subject of Trevor Wye books, there is a complete omnibus edition that has his first 5 books. They cover many aspects of playing such as tone, articulation, technique, intonation, vibrato, breathing and scales. These contain invabuable information and exercises that are a must for improving and sounding great! Might make a great last minute Christmas present.
At this point, having a teacher is indespensable. You will progress that much faster and hopefully not get into poor habits that can affect your playing. I can't stress that enough.
Hope that helps! There are some very knowledgable people on this forum, and we are here to answer your questions. Good luck and keep us posted.
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ure-name-here
(283 points)
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wow thats a long reply, my dad got the flute in england 20 years ago. im not sure wot brand it is. thz 4 the tips
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Exactley, nobody has a great tone on there first day of playing. So just keep on playing llong tones and such
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leighthesim
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like the others have said it takes a while to build up a good tone so0 just keep practicing the excersices and get a good teacher as soon as you can, i you are looking into learning on your own for a little while try the abracadbra book it help you learn fingerings and things like that, but don't learn go too long with out a teacher or you can pick up nasty habits(such as your fingers flying all over the place)
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Kara
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What Ann said. Good post  oh and leigh is our expert on the forum with flute playing since she has been playing a while, so listen to her too.
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