Why learn about naughty flute? Real benefits and challenges
A light, with no rods and with a fine tuning and with a clear face: The naughty flute takes you from the orchestra to the band and to Andean music. We tell you what training and challenges it brings.
It's worth if you're attracted to wear the melody and you have an instrument that you can put in your suitcase. The naughty flute's light, doesn't wear rods, it's tuned in do (what you read is what sounds, as well as piano or voice) and takes place in orchestras, gangs, camera music, and an Andean and Colombian music group and a good share of Latin American music.
Instead, ask patience at first: the sound forms you with your lips and with your air, without a nozzle that will help you. Here we tell you what training, where you can play it in Colombia, who often gets good and what challenges to get to know before we start.
To sum up
- The traverse flute is light and fits into a small box and doesn't have to have rods, so practice and move with it's simple.
- It's tuned with do: you can play song melodies, piano scores and without transport.
- It takes place in orchestras, symphony bands, camera music, Andean and genres as chorro or charanga.
- He trains air management, a very fine ear for tuning and co-ordination between his tongue and his fingers.
- His great challenge is the beginning: to achieve a stable sound requires short, regular and patient practice, and does not force.
What's different with the naughty flute
No cane.
The sound is born when the jet of air that forms with his lips pits onto the edge of his mouth's hole. No rods are spent, broken or have to be put back, as with his clarinet, saxophone or oboe. Daily care is reduced to dry up well after his touch. The slippers (the clapes of his keys) do require a technical review from time to time.
It's tuned at do
The flute isn't a transpository instrument: the note you read is the note that sounds. You can have the tune of a song man, the right hand of a piano score or many parts of violin and play them as they are. If you want to play with friends who have been singing or playing guitar, it's an enormous advantage with respect to instruments that have been forced to transport.
That's right in his suitcase.
It's broken down into three parts (head, body and foot) and goes into a box that fits into a backpack or a purse. Take her to TransMiento, at the school or travel path isn't an issue and you can practice at a park, at the office at lunch or where you're staying.
What training to play naughty flute
- Administering air. It's not about having a lot of air but about dosing it: a long sentence is planned as a words with breathing at the right place.
- A fine ear. The Flautista fixes note-by-note tuning with the angle of the breath and direction of the air. Eventually you learn how to listen if you're going a little high or a little low before the tuning machine says so.
- Coordination between tongue and fingers. The joints, as simple or double-minced, have to fall right with the motion of their fingers and that's built with slow scales.
- A tipple reading with a shortcut. Since the flute plays a lot of melody and a lot of quick passages, we read quite a while and we learn how to read quickly.
- Listen as a group. In an orchestra or a band, the flute rarely goes by itself: you learn how to purify with an oboe, a clarinet or a violins and how to come as a solo and how to come with them.
The flute also forces care for tension: loose shoulders, neck and mandible sound better than tight, and your teacher checks class to class.
Where you can play naughty flute in Colombia
Few instruments have so many open doors at once. That table summarizes the most common formats and what the flute usually does at each:
| Format | What does the flute do? | What's best to work with |
|---|---|---|
| Symphony or youth Orchestra | Melodia, alone and colors, and in the row there are usually two or three flutes and sometimes flautín. | Reading, group tuning and counting silent compasas. |
| Symphony, high or local band | It strengthens melodies at acute registration, attrition and fast passage. | A sound to be heard about the metals and marches and flautín. |
| Students and groups of Andean music | He or she doubles the melody of corridors, bambucas and dances with banners, tiples and guitars. | Andean frying, bambuco accents and ornaments. |
| Latin American music | He's a leading player in Brazil's chorro and the Cuban charanga and appears in Latin jazz and Bossa nova. | Rhythm, improvisation and ear play. |
| Camera music | A quintet of winds, duos with guitar or piano, trios. | Listen fine and dynamic and rehearse without a director. |
| Pop, jazz and his own projects | Melodia, contras and alone, often with a mike. | Improvisation, amplified sound and recording. |
In the Colombian Caribbean, the pomegranates and puras that traditionally play the gaitas or pawns are also well adapted to the traverse flute, and many Flautists include them in their repertoire. If you call them the world of gangs, [tidal bands in Colombia: how to start]](/blog/bandas-de-viento-en-colombia-como-empezar) We'll tell you how they usually work.
To practice in an apartment and with the climate of Bogotá
Compared with a trumpet or a battery, the flute is kindly with its neighbours in their serious and half searches. The acute registration is penetrative, so we should study them at reasonable times and do not stick to the window.
The climate also sounds. As with any wind instrument, the temperature changes the tuning: on a cold morning the flute sounds low till it's heated with your air and hot ground tends to rise. That's why the Flautists heat with long notes before tuning and then they put their heads out or something. A [online tuning]](/herramientas/afinador) It's a reference but fine tuning's been tipped by blowing and listening.
Who's good with the naughty flute?
- That's how you figure out how to play with them and how to play with them.
- You are attracted to play as a group: an orchestra, a band or an ensemble of Colombian music.
- You have patience with slow processes and enjoy polish details, as a more round sound or better tuning note.
- You move a lot and you need an instrument to ride with you.
- You come from the sweet flute of the school and you want to step up with a more powerful instrument.
Instead, if you're looking to join while you're singing, the flute isn't the best choice, because you can't write and play at the same time, and that's what a guitar or piano's best for. And if you have a doubt about flute and clarinet, at [traverse or clarinet flute]](/blog/flauta-traversa-o-clarinete) We compare them point by point.
challenges to be met before we start
- The first sound. Finding the place of the lips and direction of the air takes time. It's normal that at first the sound goes out with a lot of breath and resolves with short and frequent exercises, and doesn't blow more strongly.
- An asymmetric posture. The flute holds to the right with his arms elevated. If his arms are not cared for, his shoulders and his neck have been felt and his pauses and his posture have been reviewed as part of his studio.
- A serious and discreet record. The serious notes sound soft and in a big band they can be lost. Proclaiming them well is a long term job.
- The status of the instrument. A flute with slippers that don't cover well makes some notes come out but practice. Before buying, read how to choose your first naughty flute and consult with your teacher.
Frequently asked questions
Can you learn naughty flute as an adult?
Yes. Adults tend to have a favor to understanding and discipline and the challenge is to find practice time. With short sessions about daily progress is constant. If you are wondering how much it takes, we explain it at how long it takes to learn truthful flute.
What's flaumtin and how soon do you learn?
It's a smaller flute that sounds an octave more acute. It's used in orchestras and especially gangs and marches. It's usually addressed when you have a good sound at the flute, because it requires even more precision of lips. Many flatists play both.
Is the naughty flute made of wood or metal?
Almost all today's studio flutes are metal, for example silver alpaca, but they also exist wood flutes. Still, they belong to the wood family by their way of production and by their history: old flutes were made of wood.