Interesting video. I hope you don't mind some ideas from my journey playing simple-system (so called Irish flute). I would suggest ditching 'tab' and sheet music as much as possible. Try to learn everything by ear - having a better ear for melody and harmony feeds into every thing you play. As you're already very experienced in improvisation on the NAF I'm sure you'll pick tunes really quickly on the whistle and be able to improvise around the tune. I really think you should have a go with a non-fipple flute; maybe a keyless Irish flute or a Chinese dizi. You have control over the volume so you can play soft and sweet in the 2nd octave then blast the low notes! You also have control over the tone colour so you can play light and fluffy or hard and dark. The embouchure took me a little while - I got a reasonable sound in a couple of weeks but it's not something I think you ever master - every year I feel I'm getting a better tone, intonation and more control.
Thanks Allen, for your sharing your perspective. I am actually intuitive and improvised the majority of time but I think my message is to encourage everyone that it’s perfectly ‘okay’ to also learn in different ways and with whatever inspires you. With Irish whistle (and it’s scale) there are only a few pieces of written music that inspire me, and I’ve witnessed no improvised playing that does on this instrument. I was talking to a freind and fellow flute player last week who whenever learning any type of new flute, always at least explores sheet music to help him grasp a new scale. That’s more than I do really but I think each to his own. We all have different inspirations, ways of learning, hearing, feeling and expressing so where I myself agree with you mostly, I’m also here to inspire anyone to pick up and get going with any type of flute, however it’s easiest for them. I continue to play with this scale in an improvised way despite finding it not really to be my thing if I’m honest, perhaps that might change. But those few pieces of music really get me going and inspire me to pick the thing up😁 On the subject of end blown flutes, it’s actually the Shakuhachi and Turkish Ney that inspire me most, but I’m still progressing onto Romanian Kaval and Fujara as a priority and so I’ll reserve other flutes for sometime in future. I find that I need to deep dive with just one or two things of genuine inspiration at a time otherwise my focus, progress and then my drive for things is diluted. I’m sure others are able to learn more all at the same time and hats off to them. Thanks again for your comments and engagement
@@Robert-Leons Thanks for taking the time to reply. I know what you mean about needing to focus on a limited number of things - I think there's a balance between exploring new and different things and concentrating on the things that you really want to master (an impossible but worthwhile goal).
@@AllanTheBanjo you’re welcome. I’ll look into your suggestions at some stage. I love how we all resonate with different flutes, and that that can shift and evolve.
