Student's pipe. Pros and cons of the tool

Svetlana Ponomareva
Learning to play the pipe in kindergarten

Learning to play the pipe in kindergarten

Ponomareva Svetlana Nikolaevna

musical director

DOU TsRR Kindergarten"Happy childhood»

Novousmansky district, Voronezh region

So timidly, ineptly,

But I found a master!

The master gave her a trill,

Turning it into pipe.

(N. Pikuleva).

Pipe- one of the oldest musical instruments, which has remained unchanged to this day. Has many different names in various countries. In Russia it is called "sniffle", but better known as « pipe» . Is national folk instrument in dozens of states. Very common in the Black Sea and Mediterranean countries from Ukraine to Portugal. For thousands of years pipe was an invariable attribute of shepherds. Shepherds and shepherds enchanted with the melodic melodies of their horns and pipes, like Lelya from a fairy tale - a play by Alexander Ostrovsky "Snow Maiden". And they could not only play, but also make your own tools.

Remember:

"I'll go, I'll go for a walk,

I will break a white birch:

I’ll cut three twigs from a birch tree -

I’ll make three beeps out of them...

Now there is no need to break the birch trees - let's better protect our green friends.

"Beeps" - pipes manufactured by the Zavidovo toy factory.

With funnel - bell CLANET

Or without bell PIPE

Known to the world for hundreds of years,

Such pipe in the old days,

Peasant goats from all yards

They drove them into the field for stubble. After all, the lush grass of the meadows

There were only cows for the lords...

During the era of the Roman Empire pipes Together with drums, they were the main instruments of military bands. This combination turned out to be so successful that it is still often used in military marches.

U pipes very characteristic hoarse gentle sound, so it is usually used as a solo instrument. For her in different time they wrote serious musical works.

With all these advantages playing the pipe is simple.

When learning to play pipes I use it with preschoolers pipes, manufactured by the Zavidovo toy factory. It is a tube about 30 cm long with a whistle device on one side and six holes. At the first holes, close with the fingers of the left hand, and from the fourth to the sixth - with the fingers right hand.

Sound production is pronounced with a light singing breath, close to the syllable "HA" or "THAT", and if you blow a little HARDER, the sound will be an OCTAVE HIGHER. Under the lyrics it is marked HOW MANY holes need to be CLOSE for a given syllable.

Va-si-lek, va-si-lek,

I wash - bi - color - current.

As Hamlet said, “... play the pipe very simple... You just need to pinch the holes with your fingers and blow into the end with your mouth pipes and magical music will flow from it..."

It’s not for nothing that they teach on this instrument play children not only in music schools, but even in kindergartens. It is not difficult.

Teaching children preparatory group game on pipes I use the indispensable manual of the teacher - musician Edelvena Yakovlevna Smelova, who is adamant in her desire to revive our roots - pipe and balalaika art, so that millions of Anechek and Vanechek become LELYA again.

Her system of introducing music-making is accessible and democratic, promoting knowledge of the world through the musical creativity of different times and peoples.

This system was successfully used by Smelova in Sri Lanka, a country with an original culture, unique, unlike our writing and notation of music.

Edelvena Smelova is obsessed with the idea of ​​educating EVERYONE! musical notation literacy: “After all, there are only seven notes! – less than numbers and letters, she never tires of proving.”

And with this I agree with her, I fully and completely support her.

Notebook for preschoolers and primary schoolchildren « Playing the pipe, draw and sing" A.I. Konch sets his goal - to teach a child to play music on pipes by numbers(pre-note period) and through instrumental performance develop the coordination of his hearing and voice. This manual is prepared for the program "Succession",

A.I. Konch suggests a sequence of learning.

To play For miracle instruments, it is not necessary to immediately master musical notation, it is enough to learn to count at least to seven.

And no matter who our children become, they should have nimble fingers, a sensitive heart and a kind soul.

Literature:

1. Konch, A. I. Playing the pipe, draw and sing. Notebook for preschoolers and primary schoolchildren. – M.: GNOM i D, 2011. -72 p.

2. Smelova, E. Ya. Quarterly children's music magazine"Round dance" M.: Inkotsentr, 2011. – 15 p.

3. Petelin A. S., Gor’kova L. G. Development creativity children through music. – Voronezh, VOIPKRO, 2003.

4. Vetlugina N. A. Musical education V kindergarten. – M.: Enlightenment. 1981.

5. Vetlugina N. A. Children's orchestra. – M.: Enlightenment.

6. Kononova N.G. we teach playing the children's musical instruments. -1990.

7. Radynova O. P. Musical education of preschool children. – M.: Education: Vlados, 1994.

8. Vetlugina N. A. Aesthetic education V kindergarten – M., - 1985.

9. Malakhova L. Musical education of children preschool age. – Rostov – on – Don: Phoenix, 2008. – p. 42.

10. Metlov N. A. Music for children. – M.: Education, 1985.

INTRODUCTION TO MUSIC PLAYING

METHODOLOGICAL GUIDE TO PLAYING THE PIPE

Edelvena Yakovlevna Smelova

The children's musical instrument SVIREL has its predecessors in any culture of the world, among any nationality. Names different nations different: in Ukrainian - sopilka, in Moldavian - fluerash, in Georgian - salamuri, in Cubans - kena...

But the essence is the same: it was a reed or reed tube with holes for fingers, closing and opening which changed the air column, and with it the pitch of the sound.

There are many similar bamboo whistles in Asia. And recently an analogue of this wind instrument made of bone was discovered in a 35,000-year-old excavation in southern Germany.

Having worked as a teacher for almost 30 years in Music school Obninsk, I was looking for ways to make it easier to master musical notation students of the choir department, where parents often brought boys “to protect them from the street.” Most of them did not have musical instruments at home, and in those ancient times one could not even dream of such a toy as Carl Orff’s recorder. I myself learned about this instrument only in the seventies thanks to Estonian colleagues with whom I had close cooperation. To improve students' intonation, a “scale standard” was needed. The short ringing sound of the metallophones was difficult for the boys to register. Rough accordions require an output and an input for sound production, which is in no way suitable for hygienic reasons. By the way, they were also German and quite expensive. I was attracted to plastic pipes - clarinet and pipes, but their incomprehensible mood excluded the possibility of use.

Attempts to dig into the holes led to the transformation of the clarinetist into a ZVUKARIK, and the book “BOOKER-ZVUKARIK” was automatically assembled into a self-instruction book for the musical alphabet.

On the contrary, the PIPEs had to fill some of the holes with nail polish. And since there are only SIX holes, this toy seemed to me suitable for the pre-music period.

Together with my handwritten numbers, the corrected pipes were successfully used by the music workers of our kindergartens. Game form on initial stage learning helped relieve stress by focusing on sound, melody, rhythm.

Both the zvukorik and the flute are intended for choir players, and not for wind players who have completely different sound production techniques and necessarily have their own instruments!!

Sound production on a PIPE is produced by SINGING breathing, which is so necessary not only for choir singers.

The manual for playing the pipe takes only five lines:

Let's count the tubercles with holes on the barrel of the PIPE from the mouthpiece: there are SIX of them.

The FIRST THREE holes are closed with the fingers of the LEFT hand, and from the FOURTH to the SIXTH - with the fingers RIGHT hands. Under the lyrics it is marked HOW MANY holes need to be CLOSE for a given syllable.

Under the numbers - graphic image RHYTHM.

Any child who has learned to read and count can master this. Therefore, I recommend starting classes at 5-6 years old. The role of the teacher as a conductor comes down to organization, and the presence of phonograms enhances the effectiveness of joint creativity.

This technology has been successfully used by many teachers for more than 25 years. What the use of my methodology gives is excellently formulated by methodologist E.A. Rice from NMC St. Petersburg:

“Playing the pipe gives amazing results in the development of musical abilities students: the purity of intonation and the quality of vocal sound improves, musical memory and vocal breathing develop. Playing the pipe as an active breathing exercises helps to improve the health of the child's body. Development fine motor skills and coordination of fingers, massage of their endings leads to improved speech of the child, more fluent reading, improved handwriting, competent writing, and treatment of dysgraphia. Learning to play the pipe according to the method of E.Ya. Smelovagives children the opportunity to play the melodies of songs and chants from the very first lessons without mastering musical notation.After 2-3 months of lessons, the child can play a repertoire of 15-20 melodies. Thus, children become involved in active music-making, play and sing folk and composer music, perform themes from classical works. Children are actively immersed in huge world music, joining the musical culture."

However, providing the teacher with only a methodology in this case is not enough: the method requires funds, i.e. high-quality instrument made from child-friendly material. Pipes should be purchased in double quantities - one for use in the classroom, the other for practice at home. The self-instruction book contains on each page new information, on which the teacher should focus the attention of students during the lesson in the classroom; pause, reprise, rhythm.The first song includes the theme “direction of movement of the melody: down, up, in place" On the flute, the direction of movement of the fingers and the melody perfectly correspond: the fingers step down the stumps with holes - and the sounds also go down. Here you can touch on the concept tonic.

The training manager must strictly monitor the correct position of the hands: re-teaching is always more difficult than teaching right away. No one will change the valves on a clarinet or saxophone, where left hand always above the right. (And in general, all musicians are “left-handed”).

In the methodology big role plays rhythmic picture, by which one can trace the repetition characteristic of many folk melodies. Using the example of Russian folk song"Canopy" determine the movement of the melody in an abrupt manner.

Concept Lada- cheerful and sad, major and minor - can be illustrated with the songs “Chicken”, “Bear with a Doll”, “Quail” and “Birch”. Here you can remember about tonicand give the concept of stable and unstable steps. It’s not worth overloading yourself with theoretical wisdom at the initial stage of music playing, but it’s better to accumulate a repertoire, developing musical memory. After all, PIPE is a game of music that broadens one’s horizons, just like accumulating a vocabulary before learning to read and write.

For the PIPE, I have already made about a thousand arrangements, including the small editions of “The Pipe Sings the Melodies of Childhood”, “The Pipe Sings the Melodies of Christmas”, “The Pipe Sings Favorite Tunes”. “The flute sings the Melodies of Operas and Symphonies”, “The flute sings 100 melodies of the peoples of the world” is being prepared for publication.

I am immensely grateful to the numerous music teachers who used my method, thereby giving thousands of children the joy of communicating with beautiful world music, the joy of feeling like a creator.

Experience convinces us that musical notation should be taught in selected traditional instrument, then the position of the fingers on it and musical notation on the staff they turn into conditioned reflex. Working in Toronto Cameron Public School , in the second year of study, in the 3rd and 4th grades, I introduced musical notation, returning to A. Ostrovsky’s song “Let there always be sunshine,” to which the “key” is given in the book. Then followed tasks with transcriptions of friends and unfamiliar and unfamiliar melodies from musical notation to digital, and recording of digital music notation.

Hi all!:)
Today there will be an unusual post, not typical for my blog. Nevertheless, it is very necessary for many people, who will certainly find in it the key to solving their problems.

The fact is that a couple of days ago, completely spontaneously and unexpectedly for myself, I bought... a musical instrument from a music store. No, not big and not expensive, but the real one. This musical instrument turned out to be an ordinary recorder.

Block flute

Thus, I just wanted to blow on a big whistle with holes, record its wonderful sounds and even occasionally insert them as samples into my music tracks. So one day, on my way home from work, I pulled into a music shop to buy it. It costs from 176 rubles, but the price of a more or less high-quality model starts only from 500. It is better to take a recorder from the company Yamaha series 2x or 3x, baroque or German system - do not pay serious attention to the slight difference in the fingering of these two systems: it is minimal. Whistle company Hohner It costs more, around 1500-2000 rubles.

In general, take what you like and can afford. In any case, we are Blank sheet, and we will take the rules of any of the recorders for granted. We have nothing to relearn. And the plastic sound, if such a thing occurs, is still present in one way or another in models of the lower price segment. It’s unlikely that anyone will buy expensive wooden models - what if they don’t like studying in general? Or you won't like the instrument. So we take what we like. POSSIBLE inexpensive, possible.

C or F or how I lay down

The only aspect: ask the seller that the recorder is in the key “C major”, or simply WITH. An overwhelming number of textbooks and video lessons have been written for such instruments, including the book presented below, and it also sounds much more pleasant than a recorder in key “FA” (F). I hurried and bought exactly this one - in “fa”. You, of course, can also take any, and when practicing, take notes according to the fingering of your instrument, but personally, to me, the recorder in the key of FA sounds very high. Of course: the lowest sound she can make is F of the second octave. Sopranissimo.
About the system - baroque or German – I’ll repeat again, don’t worry too much. Differences in fingering are minor and are indicated in the instructions for the instrument. Learn as the instrument requires.

So, we decided on the choice of tool and bought it. They brought it home. Maybe even got a little crazy. What's next. Now it’s time to present to your consideration one very good tutorial on playing the recorder.

Self-instruction manual for playing the recorder for beginners

This book came into my hands quite recently, when I also decided to master a strange instrument for myself. I searched for a long time, watched some video lessons, watched flutist performances, learned kilometers of some fingerings... In general, everything turned out to be beyond my strength, a mess was forming in my head, and then I became acquainted with this book. It’s called “Without a Musical Book - a self-instruction manual for nets” and is intended for the greenest representatives of the self-taught class - without musical notation, without hearing and any other applications in cool musicians, the author page by page, exercise by exercise, gradually reveals to us the whole world of this wonderful instrument.

Download the book “Without music - a tutorial for nets”

You can download the book from my Yandex.Disk - here.
Print and start learning! By the way, the book is free, so I didn’t steal anything from the author. I just once again expressed my confession to him.

By the way, print out the fingering:

Yamaha recorder fingering in keys "WITH" And "F".
For both systems - baroque(English) and German(German (approx. Cap).

Hang it on the wall and learn. Teach. Teach. Put your fingers up and play “Siskin-fawn”, read a book and play. In a word - get busy. The recorder is an instrument that will repay you in full with its devotion and melodicism, if you treat it with soul, for very, very little cost. Both material and mental :)

That is, you don't need anything else. MORE. NOTHING. NO NEED.
Just the instrument, book and fingering. And perseverance. And patience. And desire. ALL.

Upd.

You need to practice with a metronome! A sense of rhythm, playing in an ensemble, playing with a guitar - all these skills are greatly developed if you study with a metronome. This applies not only to the recorder, but also to any other instrument. So don't neglect it simple solution

, and the efficiency of your classes will be many times higher. .

Download the metronome that I use myself: – This post was part of Alaborn's new project music training

playing instruments, music theory and the basics of harmony, vocal technique. Follow the news on my blog and it will only get better.

Playing the flute. Lesson 1.

• On which (you won’t believe it) you will already be playing the pipe with all your might and for this you will first learn:
• how the modern transverse flute works;
• what and what is called in it;
• rules for handling the flute so as not to damage the instrument;

You will also learn how to properly assemble and disassemble a transverse flute and, finally, do your first playing exercises on the flute.

The lessons in the tutorial are extensive. How long it will take to master the material depends on your preparation. Spend more time practicing. Do not rush to move on to new activities until you have mastered the previous ones. Return to the material you covered over and over again. Videos from educational materials view in full (they are short). Videos with musical works are given for reference; watch them if you wish and have the opportunity to devote time.

The transverse flute consists of three parts: head, body and knee.

Flute head

The top part of the flute is called: flute head(mouthpiece).

Actually playing the flute is producing sound by blowing air through the head.
For this purpose, the flute head has a hole for blowing air - dulce.

Dulce is surrounded sponges- an overlay that allows you to correctly attach the instrument to the flutist’s lips in order to extract (blow) notes.

On the muzzle side, the head of the transverse flute is closed crown(crown) - a threaded plug that closes access to the inside of the head.

Beginning flute players are strictly not recommended to unscrew the crown from the head, because underneath there is tuning plug. If you move the plug, the tuning of the instrument will go wrong and then you will have to contact a tuner, because without experience you will not be able to tune the flute yourself and playing the flute will become ugly.

The tuning plug is the most common plug. In fact, it is a real cork, like the one used to stop bottles. Only she is equipped reflector screw, which is used to move this plug inside the head so that the flute built- the sound of the instrument hit the notes exactly and the playing of the flute was enchanting.

By the way, if you insert a cleaning rod with the opposite end (without a cloth) into the open end of the head and look in the barrel, you can see serif on the ramrod right in the middle of the muzzle. But even the fact that you see this notch will not make you a flute tuner, so remember - do not touch the crown!

Flute body

Second part transverse flute- the longest - called: flute body(frame).

The body contains holes for extracting notes, because the flute is played according to the notes. The valves close and open the holes. Once upon a time, in ancient times, the holes on the flute were closed with fingers. This is how they still play longitudinal flutes - recorders, flutes, tin whistles and other pipes.

On the transverse flute this had to be abandoned. The fact is that if you place the holes on the body of the flute in a way that is convenient for your fingers, this will lead to imperfect tuning of the instrument. In particular, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, due to the discordance of the flute of that time, did not like it. However, this did not stop the genius from composing three wonderful concertos for flute.

To improve the tuning of the flute, through lengthy experiments, it was possible to find the correct dimensions and location of the holes in the instrument body. The flute sounded! However, it turned out that closing the holes with your fingers in this arrangement was not at all convenient and playing the flute became impossible. The craftsmen had to come up with devices to control the holes. The German instrument maker Theobald Böhm was especially good at making such devices.

Theobald Böhm, being the son of a goldsmith, took over his father's knowledge of mechanics and used it to create a mechanism for controlling the holes of a flute. This is what he came up with (disassembled flute):

This design has remained almost unchanged in modern flutes. Therefore, the modern transverse flute is often and deservedly called the Boehm flute.

The flute mechanism uses many cogs, valves, pads, axles, and levers. Look at this fine work. It's exactly the same with your flute. Treat it with care.

The flute mechanism is quite fragile.

Therefore, when handling the flute, follow these simple rules:

• do not place the transverse flute on the valves, always place it on a flat surface with the valves facing up;
• do not apply force when touching the mechanism parts and valves;
• protect the flute from blows;
• Do not place the flute in a place where pets could sit on it or knock it over;
• Until you are a flute repairman, do not twist any screws in the mechanism, otherwise you will move the valves and the flute will turn from a musical instrument into an exhibit.

To tightly close the holes on the body, the valves are equipped with pads. Previously, the pads were made of felt and covered with a “bull bladder”. Now, of course, the materials are modern and durable, but nevertheless, after each game on the flute, take a cloth and a cleaning rod and wipe the flute.

Once again, read slowly and remember: after every flute play take a cloth and cleaning rod and wipe the instrument.

Flute knee

The third part - lower part of the flute just like the body contains holes and valves.

There are two types of knee: do and si.

It determines the lowest note of the transverse flute:

• to the first octave or
• B small octave.

They are easy to distinguish by appearance: the picture above shows the B knee - it has three “rounds”. The picture below shows a knee up - it only has two “rounds”.

When assembling the flute it will be referred to as a "knee valve rod". Find this part now. This is easy to do, because there is only one rod on the knee and all the levers and valves of this part of the flute are attached to it.

We have figured out the structure of the flute and now:

Let's try to make the first sounds on the flute. Yes, yes, right now, without assembling the instrument, let’s start blowing. To do this, we take the head of the flute with both hands - the crown is on the left, the barrel is up.

Holding the head horizontally, bring the muzzle to your mouth. We place the lips of the flute under the lower lip so that they are easily pressed against the flesh of the lower lip. The dulce is located exactly in the middle of the sound gap in the center of the lips.

Some beginning flutists use this technique: they turn the muzzle towards themselves, cover it with two lips, then turn the muzzle away from themselves and upward and at the same time stretch their lips.

In any case, it is better to go to the mirror and move the barrel so that it is exactly in its place as in the picture:

Of course, it is not at all necessary to grow a mustache to play the flute, but please note again that the barrel of the flute must be positioned exactly as shown in the picture: strictly in the middle of the lips. There may be individual differences, which are described below on this page.

The lower lip partially covers the muzzle. If you are not at the mirror yet, then right now go to the mirror and put the flute (only the flute head for now) to your mouth to remember and train the correct position. Remove the muzzle from your lips and attach it again. And again to test the skill.

Happened? It needs to happen “automatically”.

Another picture with the correct position of the flute barrel near the flutist’s lips:

Now let's try to blow.

You should blow so that the entire stream of air hits the muzzle and, hitting its edge, resonates. If you don’t understand what we’re talking about, it doesn’t matter. Read on.

Do a preparatory exercise. Place your palm like the picture and blow lightly on it:

Pay attention to the position of the lips in the picture. Accept the same. Practice in the mirror. For some people, the air gap is not located in the middle of the mouth. This is their specialty. They should not relearn how to blow differently. Such people also place the muzzle in the middle of the air gap, even if not in the middle of the mouth.

You can also practice on bottles. This is quite serious! You need to blow into the bottle so that the air stream resonates. Just fill the bottle (not completely) with water - otherwise you and especially the child may not have enough strength to “inflate” the empty bottle to resonance.

Don't think this is a joke. Here's how the guys play the bottles:

Your task is to catch the position of the lips and the blown stream on the head of the flute or on the bottle so that the sound is produced. This may take some time. But it will still work. The main thing is persistence and perseverance.

And we return to our transverse flute and master the technique of extracting sound from the head.

Assistive exercises

Do long, even exhalations for 10 - 15 seconds every exhale. At the beginning of each exhalation, help yourself with your tongue - pronounce the syllable tu (“t” is pronounced without a sound, in one tongue). You will get an additional attack at the beginning of the exhalation. A game with such an attack is called detail. We will begin training with this method of play.

Remember that the task of blowing on the head is to find a stable, correct position of the lips and adapt to the muzzle.

During the first days, you can only blow the head without assembling the whole flute, and be sure to do training exercises to blow fluff from the palm of your hand - 20 - 30 “blows” per exercise. In the palm of your hand you are easy understand where the air stream is directed and learn to adjust its direction with your lips.

In addition, you should do lip exercises daily:

• stretch the ends of the lips;
• retract the upper and then the lower lip several times alternately (we help with the jaws);
• then we retract both lips and compress them.

Good news

You can play not one, but four sounds on the flute head! Learn to do it.

Cover the right end of the head with your palm. The pitch will change depending on the rate of exhalation. Exhale less when playing low notes, and more when playing high notes. Blow calmly - the sound is low (1 octave), sharply increase the speed of the air stream - the sound will become much higher (3 octaves). Here's how it will be:

Release the right head hole. Direct the air stream approximately to the middle of the muzzle - the sound is lower (2 octaves). Change the direction of the stream forward and further away from you - the sound will increase (4 octaves)

You can practice and play a simple melody only on the head:

Flute assembly

It's time to assemble the flute.
We take the instrument out of the case and prepare for assembly. First of all, we inspect the joints and remove any possible contamination from them. The cleaner they are, the easier it will be to assemble the flute and, what’s especially nice, the easier it will be to disassemble it after playing. It is recommended to periodically lubricate the joints.

The flute parts are assembled effortlessly. They should be connected with light rotational (back and forth) movements. The fact is that the metal from which the flute is made is quite soft and, in addition, also thin. Therefore, we do not apply any effort when assembling and disassembling the flute. Special attention pay attention to careful attitude to valve mechanism parts.

We install the flute head so that the barrel is in line with the body valves. This is easy to check if you look at the flute from the knee side.

The manufacturer sometimes puts marks (markers) on the body and head of the flute, which make it easier to find the correct position of the head. If there are no such marks on your instrument, then no one forbids you to apply them yourself. Just don't scratch the tool. It is better to apply such marks, for example, with small strokes of nail polish.

We also attach the lower knee to the body carefully. The position of the knee is such that the valve stem on the knee is in the middle of the valve closest to the valve body.

If you still don’t understand what to align by what, look at how it should be:

The transverse flute is assembled and ready to play.

To play notes, you need to know how to properly close/open the valves on the flute to play notes. The order of arrangement and alternation of fingers on musical instrument called fingering. The “Svirelka” training program will help you learn the fingering of the transverse flute, which will show the fingering for each note of the melody in real time.

You can get acquainted with Svirelka completely free of charge by filling out the form.

For beginners, the flute may seem like some kind of magical instrument that can only be played special people. Everything is much simpler. Playing the flute is just a skill. But people who play the flute are truly special because they have applied themselves and become musicians. We continue learning to play the flute for beginners.

Lesson 3. Flute for beginners. Let's start with the B note of the first octave.

Playing the flute with your left hand

The B note of the first octave is the simplest note:

• the left thumb presses the B key (1), forefinger presses the valve to (2) ;

Hold the flute with both hands, as you did in the second lesson. Close valves C and B with the fingers of your left hand, and press lever 10 with your right little finger.

Try to play the B note of the first octave. Blow the note detaile - with an attack of the tongue (pronounce a silent “tu”). As a rule, this note is obtained immediately. You have already practiced enough in the first and second lessons to extract sound from the flute. Therefore, now the note B will turn out quite quickly and easily.

Now you need to pay attention for sound purity.

The note should be clean and beautiful. To obtain a beautiful timbre, follow these recommendations:

• Do not strain your lips too much. Of course, to control the air stream, your lips must be held in a certain shape, but this should be a natural tension. The lips should be alive and tense just enough for a stream of air to blow out the sound. Don’t make your lips “wooden” - you won’t get a sound and won’t be able to play for a long time;
• The stretch of the lips should also be just sufficient. Excessive stretching is not required. The game should be fun, so get rid of stiffness right away;
• the same applies to the fingers. Keep your fingers free. Apply only enough force to close the play valves. Do not push the valves as hard as you can. There's no point in this. Just waste your energy and you can damage the tool;
• the stream of blown air should be smooth and directed exactly into the hole of the flute barrel. At the same time, in order to get this “exact” thing, you need to adjust the barrel to the stream. That is, standing in front of a mirror and blowing a note, your lips should still be in a comfortable position and, if necessary, you can move the flute to the right/left to find the correct position of the instrument for a clear, beautiful sound. Catching beauty by changing the shape of an air stream with your lips is a mistake, because you will be tired of catching it. Therefore, find the correct position of the muzzle at the lips and always hold the flute in this position.

Will you try playing the first melody? Just one note!
Here you go, the chorus “Andrey the Sparrow, don’t chase the pigeons!”

This is what it sounds like:

To the fingers pressed for the note B, press the middle finger of the left hand on the A valve (3):

• The left thumb presses the B key (1), the index finger presses the C valve (2), middle finger presses the A valve (3);
• the little finger of the right hand presses lever 10;
• the remaining fingers are on their valves and do NOT press them - the valves remain open.

We blow out the note detaile - with an attack of the tongue (pronounce “tu”). The note A is not much more difficult than the previous note B, so now you will succeed.

Don't tense your lips or fingers. Long notes are not required now. Learn to produce a pure, beautiful timbre and get rid of fears and unnecessary tension in the body. Stand straight, slightly leaning forward, your throat is free (do not tilt or throw back your head).

Everything that was said for the note B about the tension and stretching of the lips, the condition of the fingers, the air flow, apply to the note A.

Play a two-note melody (flute for beginners):

The melody “Oh, spring-spring” sounds on the flute like this:

This is another note on the game similar to the previous ones.

To the fingers pressed for the note A, press the ring finger of the left hand on the G valve (4):

• The left thumb presses the B key (1), the index finger presses the C valve (2), the middle finger presses the A valve (3), the ring finger presses the G valve (4);
• the little finger of the right hand presses lever 10;
• the remaining fingers are on their valves and do NOT press them - the valves remain open.

And the position of the fingers on the note G, and everything else is similar to the previous notes. We still blow out the note G using the detail technique - with an attack of the tongue (pronounce “tu”). And we are still learning to play the flute without tension and stupor in the body. The note salt can be obtained just as easily as B and A.

Congratulations! You have learned to play the flute with your left hand.

This is enough to play the first preparatory exercise from N. Platonov’s School of Flute Playing. It seems this best school, which is now taught in music institutions.

If you don’t have time (after all, this is flute for beginners), you can slow down the pace of the game on the training Svirelka so that you feel comfortable.

Bonus. We play a note on the flute up to the second octave.

At the end of lesson 3, we will learn one more note for the left hand. Note to the second octave. This will significantly expand your repertoire :)

So, take the flute as for the B note of the first octave and release the B valve (1), that is, press the valve more thumb left hand. Leave everything else pressed:

• the index finger of the left hand presses the valve to (2);
• the little finger of the right hand presses lever 10;
• the remaining fingers are on their valves and do NOT press them - the valves remain open.

Let's play in detail! Each note is separated by an attack of the tongue. A note up to the second octave sounds like this:

And now you can play preparatory exercise No. 2 School of Flute Playing by N. Platonov:

As you can see flute for beginners It’s a completely accessible instrument, and if you continue to practice just as persistently, you’ll soon be able to play fluently and confidently.

To check how well you have mastered the material in Lesson 3, try playing these notes yourself:

it should look like this:

This exercise will help you feel the movement of the fingers of your left hand.