omg!!! i have been playing flute for 6 years and i have never used my tounge for tounging notes. all through elm. school, the guy never said any thing about tounging, just to blow. and in middle school no one corrected me or said ne thing about it. now my high school band director says i am tounging my notes when i dont even use my tounge. i just use my breath. the tounging especially starts when i hit high notes like two line e and up. some one help me
i wanna do flute for a career, but i have doubts. what are the possibilities that i can do with it? how can i get into it. i have been playing the flute for 6 years and i intend on doing it forever. it is my life. my passion. but i worry that i will be able to survive from it. i mean. how much money would i make? wat could i do? become a teach? a player in the symphonic orchestra? some one who knows what they are doing help me

Well, when it comes to teaching or playing professionally I can tell you that you would have to go to a college or university and major in music to get a degree in musical teaching, preforming or conducting.

1. Music teaching- teach at a middle school, high school or college somewhere I`m not sure on the income maby 30,000 or 40,000?

2. Music Preforming- Ha anywhere but mainly in a professional symphony orchestra somewhere with band, stringed and percussion instruments. Income around $60,000 or up a year

3. Conducting- conductor of a professional symphony orchestra, $600,000 a year. A lot isn`t it! :-)


Oh and I play the cello. Talk directly to your teacher and ask questions that you don`t know.

Oh and I met a lady in the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra who played a cello worth $500,000, so that`s how much the performers get payed to instruments expensive like that. I`m not sure about band instruments but the minimum price of a stringed instrument in the ASO is $86,000. That is because they only have perfect sounding instruments, cheaper priced stringed instruments sound worse and the ASO is very strict on that. Having bad sounding instruments makes a symphony orchestra sound bad which is why they usually have very expensive instruments, but that`s the ASO.

i`m in the band called kennady`s kitchen we get payed 500 bucks an hour

500 split amongst the band, or 500 each?

yea for are flute`s and conserts 500$ an hour then we got new flute`s

As a professional flutist and teacher...I can tell you that unless you WORK HARD, you won`t get far - flute players are a dime a dozen, but GOOD flutists are hard to find.

As far as tonguing goes - if you can say "Dah," then you can tonque. Try it one note at a time - in the middle to lower register first. I call it "soft tonguing" with my students. If you say "Tah" the "t" makes a harsher sound. Imitate the tongue movement on the roof f your mouth - don`t actually make the sound of "Dah." If you have any other questions, you can always ask me directly.

I`m surprised because certainly you were asked to play staccato at some point in your band music. I teach all levels - elementary through college and staccato and harsher tonguing is what bands play mostly - especially marching bands.

Take some private lessons in your area - check the National Flute Association for the local flute club in your area - have your mom call them and get names of local teachers.

Don`t worry - you can do ANYTHING you set your mind to!

And for the person from Atlanta that thinks that Symphony musicians are paid sooooo much to pay for those instruments, think again. Musicians have to have those kinds of instruments to compete, but that does NOT reflect on their income AT ALL. Most live VERY simply, drive older cars and have to teach in addition to playing other gigs too in order to squeak out a living. They also go in to BIG DEBT in order to get those instruments. Really.

I DONT DO THAT WELL WITH ARTICULATIONS JUST USE UR TOUNGE ALOT TRY TOUNGING WITHOUT THE FLUTE PLAY THE MUSIC SLOW AND MARK ARTICULATIONS DONT FORGET TUTUTUTU