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HunterPony1
(69 points)
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I am learning to play The Flight of the Bumble-Bee. It is super fast. Can anyone give me tips on how to get it up to speed? It is so hard and I have been playing for less than a year.
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flutieplaya1
(50 points)
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I've been playing the flute for three years or so, and what I've found is doing it over and over and over and over helps you get up to finger-speed. Honestly, there's not special trick that I know of.  Sorry, not great advice, but I hope it helps a little.
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kaflute133
(183 points)
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play your chromatic scale as high and as low as you can. go like low C as high as you can play and that piece will be a breeze.
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Account Closed
(3248 points)
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Play is S-L-O-W with a metronome and slowly (very slowly) work it up to speed. Don't bump up the speed until you have all the notes and rhythm under your fingers perfectly.
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leighthesim
(467 points)
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wow, i want tolearn flight of the bumble bee but i can't find it and i can't get it here as i am not a subscriber- oh well, good luck anyway
i find the best way is to start slow, get it perfect and then do it faster.(i did it with an exam peice last summer and got it about right)
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Plekto
(362 points)
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Get some of that Power Putty - the second lightest stuff they make(light blue). Use it to strengthen and make your fingers more flexible. It works better than those guitar type ones with the springs. Try to make rapid squeezing and fingering motions with it. I find that even a few minutes a day makes a noticeable difference after a week or two.
Also consider a thumb wrest for your flute. If you have better leverage/it's easier to hold, then you can get more on top of the keys and that helps, too.
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mormika
(70 points)
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Play it SLOW!!!!! SLOOOOWWWWWWWW... When you make no mistakes, you're comfortable playing it try to increase the speed, with metronome! And the speed comes by itself!!!! It won't be 1-2 day.. it could be 3 months to play it super fast! The secret is slow with metronome but Kara also has had a good teacher like mine. ))Giving very good advices
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Micron
(1759 points)
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SLOOOOOWWWW!!!!
Every time you play it faster and make the slightest mess between notes, or unevenness, all you are doing is practising how to do it messy.
You must be ruthless on yourself.... Listen very, very carefully for messy sounds between notes. Every time you hear one, slow the metronome down a notch.
If you cannot play it through several times without blemish at that speed, slow the metronome another notch, etc.
Speed up the metronome one notch only when you can play it blemish-free several times in a row.
It's a long process. If you are not prepared to go through it, don't even bother starting. You will only be practising how to be a useless flute player.
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flute_n_bassoon
(278 points)
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also, make sure your fingers are close to the keys. If you lift them up too high when you aren't using them to hold keys down when you finger, it can make it much harder to play fast.
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Micron
(1759 points)
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Judging from very fast players I have seen with fingers well above keys, and very fast players of trumpets (which have a very large key travel) and the physics laws of acceleration, impact, etc, and the fact that the brain is quite capable of anticipating when an action needs to be competed by, I suspect that that is a myth, perpetuated by people who really have not given it much thought.
Try tapping your finger as fast as possible on a table as if operating a flute key. Try lifting the finger about 3 mm (typical flute key travel), and then try say 15 mm. Do you tap any faster over the short distance?
Needless to say, 50 mm would be getting ridiculous, because that really does slow down the tapping.
If the finger travels say 15 mm, then it will already be travelling fast when it contacts (i.e. impacts) the key, so the key will travel faster to its closed position than if the finger started in contact with the key, and had to start the closing movement from stopped. That's the laws of physics.
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Plekto
(362 points)
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Hence why getting your fingers off of the body and over the keys is a huge advantage. A thumb rest or similar gizmo improves your leverage so that instead of creeping over the keys with your right hand, you are slightly more forward and on top of them.
Without it, you generally have to grip/press against the body with the upper edge of your palm and that limits travel to a few mm.
It's similar to typing. If you use one of those wrist rests or put your hands too low, yes, you'll get sore. If you come down on them and hold your arms like you play piano, no carpal tunnel or other worries.
Can't hurt - most people say it's the best $5 they've spent on their flute.
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Micron
(1759 points)
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"Without it, you generally have to grip/press against the body with the upper edge of your palm... "
Really? How awkward! I've never seen a flute player do that, unless they are a misguided beginner.
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