Top C played like a top B, but without the thumb, is effortlessly almost perfectly in tune. I have experimented with other fingerings though. It is not enough yet to bring the C into tune, but it's something I am going to carry on working on - it is definitely better technique. Definitely something learned there, thanks. I don't suffer from smiling syndrome, but my mouth was more rigid than it needed to be. I have found relaxing, as you described, has helped a little (5 cents maybe). Hitting it is easy, it's just far too sharp (nearly 50 cents) - and it's the only note I can't manage to bring more or less into tune with standard fingering (G# forte is another, but it's nowhere near as sharp as C). Let me know if you need help understanding! I went from naturally 15 sharp on bottom c 30 sharp on top and 10 on the middle C's, now if I haven't been playing all day and my flute is properly warmed up (and it still is drastically different without being warmed up) and in tune those C's are pretty much in tune for me. But like I said it'll be a tough route for a bit since you're retraining yourself.Īs far as kicking your bottom jaw out, if you open your mouth more notes will be fuller, lower notes come out easier and it does help with sharps if you can adjust your lips properly.Īll of this will be a harder route to follow because you are retraining yourselr, but it'll help a lot. Relaxing your corners, bringing out the ue lip set, and such should help some. Its gonna seem to do the opposite at first, so if you're practicing with your group or band or preforming before you've master or gotten comfortable with loose mouth, it's okay to use your old embouchure.īasically, if we have smiling syndrome while playing we're going to be 5-20 sharper than the instrument itself is. So when you get to these notes if you push your flute foot out away from you it can help get that C a more natural tone and allow you to reach it easier.īut if reaching it isn't the problem, I think loosening your mouth will help a l o t. The flute, when youre playing your flute is supposed to be 90° to your mouth. Words like dew, chew, but get the u shaper rather than the w. I might have to completely relearn my top register scales!
But the others seem like no brainers - no more complex, just different, and naturally in tune.
The B fingering is probably too nasty to use except for a sustained note where it really matters (add the other trill key and right hand ring finger - awkward, but nicely in tune). I suspect these things are rather instrument/player specific.Īpart from B natural, the alternative fingerings are all pretty easy, and much easier than trying to bend the note down, certainly when playing forte. I don't know if they are even well known, but they work really well on my instrument. I have found alternative fingerings for all the top register notes that tend to be sharp (above D4, they all tend to be sharp on my instrument, except B flat, which is freakishly perfect).įunnily enough, I didn't look at charts for most of them, I just fiddled around. I can get top C by fingering a top B, but without the thumb - is effortlessly almost perfectly in tune.
I have experimented with some alternative fingerings.
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