Any tips for getting the 4th octive D to sound (D7). I have tried all of the alternate fingerings. I've tried rolling in and out. Moving my embouchure around...
Do I need to make a teeny tiny embouchre hole? Possibly smaller than I am capable of at this time?
I have even blown my brains out and managed a squeek once.
For me, it seems to require the perfect angle of air stream, else it won't sound. The most important factor, I think, is the air stream speed. It takes a TREMENDOUS amount of air speed to get those 4th octave notes out, possibly more than you ever thought necessary!
Can you hit a high C#? Try working from b, c, c#, then d...
try to approach the note, never ever roll in and out, won't work and will kill the intonation..approach the note chromatically from below and you will get it..
The C# is easy as pie. I can even get some of the notes above D. I tried the cromatic approach and by doing that and blowing my brains out, I managed to get a squeek. I can hear the overtones when I am not getting the note and just gently blowing air through my flute.
I usually don't ever roll my flute, but one of the alternate fingerings said to roll out and try playing the note. It didn't work. The regular fingering is the only one that I have had minimal success.
I remember many years ago in highschool I was able to get that note. Funny, I think that I had braces.
That note has taken me a very long time to even get (I can play it better now, but still not super consistently)
Just work on longtones chromatically and work on attacks. Go from C# to D C# D back and forth.
I also think that doing harmonics (finger the very lowest B/C/C# and getting 5-6 (7? Up 3 octaves to the note your fingering) notes out. The top ones are REALLY difficult to get out but they really help get your embouchere right, and i bet D will be easier if you can play those even to the one or two below the top one.
I sometimes wonder if it was largely generated from a computer model. A well designed computer program should be able to spit out all potential fingerings for a note, which can then be tried for practical viability.
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