I'm a grade 6 flautist at the moment n i ve bin wanting to play another instrument for ages but after xmas will b the only time i can really start for another year cos of exams
My flute teacher says tht it wud b best to take up another woodwind instrument if i wanted to start teaching - which i do - but i dont kno which one i wud find easiest to play and b the most useful.
Or wud a different family of instrument help????
thanx
Lucy xxx
ps. i can play with a reed (on ma brothers sax) only i rnt very good at playing it
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I reckon you should go for the piano - if you want to teach you'll have to accompany and play the aural tests at some point. Plus, it gives you a better understanding of how chords and harmony work. But on the other hand doesn't the alto sax have the same fingering as the flute!
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Keyboard skills are very useful to an instrumental teacher but not essential (we could debate this!).Often I do not have a piano available.
If you would like to teach woodwind in schools consider clarinet and saxaphone (which is very popular and loosely takes flute fingering, also it would be easier to learn for you than the clarinet -probably!!))
Also for working in junior schools the recorder is a very useful instrument to play AND you haven't even mentioned it. Many of the recorder players that I teach go on to play woodwind/brass as well but it aint necessarily so!
If you would like to teach woodwind in schools consider clarinet and saxaphone (which is very popular and loosely takes flute fingering, also it would be easier to learn for you than the clarinet -probably!!))
Also for working in junior schools the recorder is a very useful instrument to play AND you haven't even mentioned it. Many of the recorder players that I teach go on to play woodwind/brass as well but it aint necessarily so!
If you want to teach, I'd definitely say that the one to go for would be the piano - it'd be really useful to you.
So many of my piano and recorder pupils who learn an orchestral instrument at school or the music centre complain to me that they hardly ever play those orchestral instruments with an accompanist, and get barely any chance even to hear what their exam accompaniments etc are like unless they buy a CD.
If you can play the piano you will be doing all your future pupils a huge favour!
So many of my piano and recorder pupils who learn an orchestral instrument at school or the music centre complain to me that they hardly ever play those orchestral instruments with an accompanist, and get barely any chance even to hear what their exam accompaniments etc are like unless they buy a CD.
If you can play the piano you will be doing all your future pupils a huge favour!
Piano would be useful for teaching, if you want to teach flute, then consider clarinet (you could teach that to!) because many teachers do them both. Also, saxophone has the same fingering as the flute, and once you can play the clarinet, you can probly play the sax to! and all sax fingerings are the same, so theres another 4/5/6 instruments!
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Similar, not the same. I had to play my son's alto sax yesterday in a spoof item at a party, where everyone had to play an instrument they coudn't play. Middle D and F sharp are definitely different, also C. More like descant recorder fingering, IMO.
Almost the same then
sax is easier than the clarinet, but for technique and easiest in learning in the long run, it would probably better to learn clarinet. I play clarinet and flute, but can play sax if I want to!
If you want to become a really good musician, then it helps a LOT if you can play the piano: this will further your understanding of polyphony and chords, as well as improving co-ordination!
But if you want to just play for fun, in wind bands and the like, I'd say saxophone.
If you want to play for fun but also want to get into an orchestra, I'd say a string instrument, particularly viola/double bass... or, possibly, a brass instrument, but you'll need to consider embouchre factor. (apparently, the only brass instrument that works for flautists is the trombone... can't confirm that though...)
But if you want to just play for fun, in wind bands and the like, I'd say saxophone.
If you want to play for fun but also want to get into an orchestra, I'd say a string instrument, particularly viola/double bass... or, possibly, a brass instrument, but you'll need to consider embouchre factor. (apparently, the only brass instrument that works for flautists is the trombone... can't confirm that though...)
Bassoon!!!
I play the flute but now bassoon's my 1st instrument.
If you're willing to put up with loads of 'jokes' that it's just a farting noise and waste of space.... (hilarious isn't it?!).
It gives you a completly different outlook on an orchestra etc.
i would recommend piano aswell though- it's really important.
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I play the flute but now bassoon's my 1st instrument.
If you're willing to put up with loads of 'jokes' that it's just a farting noise and waste of space.... (hilarious isn't it?!).
It gives you a completly different outlook on an orchestra etc.
i would recommend piano aswell though- it's really important.
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If not Piano then Clarinet. Between Clarinet and Flute you have the basic fingering elements almost every woodwind instrument. 
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| ... or, possibly, a brass instrument, but you'll need to consider embouchre factor. (apparently, the only brass instrument that works for flautists is the trombone... can't confirm that though...) |
Why does people always think that just beacause you play an woodwind instrument, you can't play a brass instrument, and vice versa? It just makes me mad!
It's indeed very much possible to combine a woodwind with a brass instrument, it's just that there are few teachers that really supports such combinations.
My tuba teacher wasn't supportive at all when I told him I was going to start playing the flute as my second instrument, but my flute teacher was really supportive that I shouldn't quit playing the tuba! It was really confusing!
So, don't be afraid to mix! If you really enjoy your combination, then what is there to stop you? Nothing, I tell you!
i'd say the piano. if not then SAXOPHONE its great!
Piano would certainly make sense if you want to teach. If you're considering brass, what about the French Horn? I've never played one but they make a wonderful sound and there's always a demand for horn players in orchestras. Or what about something completely different like a didgeridoo?! They sell them in my local music shop. If I got one too we could start a didgeridoo forum!
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I have a didgeridoo, but cannot play it!
play horn, you know you want to!!!!!!!!!!
actually, i don't think horn goes with other orchestral instruments cos you have to spend a lot of time practicing it, then learn how to transpose and read in bass clef etc.
but hey, its a great instrument!
(completely non-biased view of course!)
hornplayer xx
actually, i don't think horn goes with other orchestral instruments cos you have to spend a lot of time practicing it, then learn how to transpose and read in bass clef etc.
but hey, its a great instrument!
(completely non-biased view of course!)
hornplayer xx
how to play didgeridoo for nicki flute.
That site has lots of info, but some of it makes better sense AFTER you know what to do
The "lip buzz" is definitely a very loose raspberry sound...hold your mouth completely relaxed (but shut) and then start blowing steadily through your closed lips to make a "prprprpr" sound. It actually takes a lot of practice to keep this up for 10-20 minutes in a regular rhythm!
Now the embouchure. You can make a didge out of practically anything, even a vacuum cleaner pipe (wash it first...), but you need to build up the embouchure area. The practice one I saw was made with a beeswax compound - anything will do if you can make it pliable (with heat, kneading etc.) and then set it firm enough that it won't melt from contact with your skin (you're only in loose contact, so beeswax doesn't melt). Try modeling compound etc., as long as it isn't toxic.
Apply your modeling compound or whatever around the top of the pipe, then build up a small "wall" which gradually becomes narrower, leaving quite a big round aperture. You might want one side a bit flatter, just see what suits...at least at the beginning stages, it's by no means crucial to have it "just so". Size...make a ring with your thumb and forefinger and put it right round your mouthso that your fingers are sitting snugly around the sides of your mouth, but there is room above and below your lips - that should be about the right size.
Now get your prprprpr going, and gently bring the embouchure of the didge to your mouth so that the central lip area is within the embouchure circle. At first, you'll probably lose your "buzz" when your lips touch the embouchure, but keep it up...
Once you've got the buzzing going, you can change the tone by using a throat vibrato, or "speaking" into the didge.
Have fun...
That site has lots of info, but some of it makes better sense AFTER you know what to do
The "lip buzz" is definitely a very loose raspberry sound...hold your mouth completely relaxed (but shut) and then start blowing steadily through your closed lips to make a "prprprpr" sound. It actually takes a lot of practice to keep this up for 10-20 minutes in a regular rhythm!
Now the embouchure. You can make a didge out of practically anything, even a vacuum cleaner pipe (wash it first...), but you need to build up the embouchure area. The practice one I saw was made with a beeswax compound - anything will do if you can make it pliable (with heat, kneading etc.) and then set it firm enough that it won't melt from contact with your skin (you're only in loose contact, so beeswax doesn't melt). Try modeling compound etc., as long as it isn't toxic.
Apply your modeling compound or whatever around the top of the pipe, then build up a small "wall" which gradually becomes narrower, leaving quite a big round aperture. You might want one side a bit flatter, just see what suits...at least at the beginning stages, it's by no means crucial to have it "just so". Size...make a ring with your thumb and forefinger and put it right round your mouthso that your fingers are sitting snugly around the sides of your mouth, but there is room above and below your lips - that should be about the right size.
Now get your prprprpr going, and gently bring the embouchure of the didge to your mouth so that the central lip area is within the embouchure circle. At first, you'll probably lose your "buzz" when your lips touch the embouchure, but keep it up...
Once you've got the buzzing going, you can change the tone by using a throat vibrato, or "speaking" into the didge.
Have fun...
ah but nicki, i can play the grand woohoo!!
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me too! lol! my cous bought it for me when she was in aussie
as for the answer to the first post,
you should take up PIANO COZ IT ROCKS! lol
serious!
I think when i took piano, i could *understand* the music more
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