hey. i havent been on in a LONG time. anywho, this is a question about airiness. when ever i do a series of 16th notes or anything fast, my notes come out airy. it's been doing that alot l8ly and now i have to play BACK IN BLACK by AC-DC which has a whole bunch of them. i have to get it memorized by the first day of school WHICH IS MONDAY BTW!!!! i just started playing 2day because i got it a week ago. also if i try to fix my airiness problem the notes come out squeeky and airy!! HHHHHHHHEEEEEEEEEEEELLLLLLLLLPPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Thanks,
Courtney

You have to think about line, rather than each note individually. Dont think about each of them but blow through until the end and try as an exercise doin all of the notes legato!!! Start on one single note and try and get the focused sound you so desire , then (but it will take time) do scales thinking like this. Its all a mental thing. Just blow through a long line!! You have to come up with your own image but when you do... it will work!!
Coop

also try playing it all pp as that will force you to focus your tone...

usually note just come out skeaky and airy till you find the right embourture, just practise your embouture and notes will star coming out nicer and nicer (take it from me a complete begginer because you will realy notice the differance i have

As usual, nothing but crappy advice here.

What is "skeaky"?

It's a good thing we have the advice we need from the beginners section. Where would we be without it?

Try making a smaller aperture and experimenting with airspeeds. Take a hammer and make a little dent in the head joint. Just keep making it bigger and bigger until the tone focuses.

I haven't done it myself but all of the pros I know seem to have done that. You could also try removing the head joint and blow across the open hole of the body of the flute. When you go back to playing with the head joint, your sound will appear much more "in focus".

Just my $.02 friends.

Unfortunately, Phil's two cents are in a different currency, and are no good here. In case anyone didn't pick up on it, he's being sarcastic. Please do not put a dent in your headjoint, and blowing across the body won't help your tone either.

PHil, you ignorant slut, but you do crack me up, I like the smashing up the tone hole...