Been looking forward to getting a grip on my flute today. And to be fair, I did manage to make a moderately clean sound (once) but there’s no consistency in it.
I seem to sort of have a sort of balance holding the flute, but I get cramp in my forearms so I don’t know if I’m gripping for dear life or if it’s because it feels mega strange to be holding an instrument to the side.
My embouchure is all over the place. I thought, right, I’ll look in the mirror to actually watch what my mouth is doing and just spent ages in hysterics. Oh God! Why did I start this? Let this not be another instrument abandoned before I get anywhere. Actually, I haven’t abandoned instruments, I have a banjo, mandolin and violin all waiting to be learned. You’d think that as I can already play guitar the string instruments would be a piece of piss, nah, not happening!
I was sat at home last night, thinking how exciting this could be, to learn the flute, purely for my own enjoyment. If you think of it, a professional could pick up my flute and play something beautiful. It’s a cheap flute but it was reviewed by professionals who said it has quite good tone. All that is stopping the instrument from playing that beautiful music is ME!
I practised this afternoon and felt that the flute wobbled less today and I did make a note. I guess I’ll have to learn some patience. I should know by now that you don’t just pick up an instrument and play (unless it’s a recorder!!) It just seems that there is so much to learn and that’s waaaaay before I start to learn notes. Onwards and upwards!
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