This video changed my flute life. My flute life started when I was about 15 hears old, already had decided that I would bevome a professional saxophone player later and thought it would be smart to double on flute for bigband and horn sections.. Somehow I was always struggling on flute but neither I nor the theachers I had throughout the years knew why I was so tensed during playing. Cramps in shouder, neck, arms, breathing problems, while never having problems on saxophone or clarinet. I only could play relaxed when laying on my back. When laying down jutting the jaw is very unnatural. It was was a mystery! Jutting the jaw means pushing the jaw forward, just as you do it (a bit) on saxophone to get the right embouchure on the mouthpiece. Watching this video only 2-3 years ago helped me to become a much better flute player. Thank you Jennifer Cluff for explaining! Read her blog
So the first time we played the music from Royalty For Real wasn't in Amersfoort, the Netherlands, but in Bengaluru and Mumbai, all the way in India in 2023!Here you'll see me play Au Privave, Classy Cats and Royalty For Real, together with Timothy Banchet (piano), Marius Beets (bass) and Sven Rozier (drums).Au Privave is a well-known blues by Charlie Parker which I often like to start with, almost like a soundcheck tune. Although most of the time a soundcheck is done I found out it's a good idea to play a tune everybody of the band knows very well so we all can get used to the sound of the stage, the presence of the audience and it also gives the sound engineer the chance to adjust microphones last minute. During the soundcheck, the sound of the room is significantly different because of the lack of audience. All that flesh and clothes work a little bit like a totally empty room versus a room with furniture and carpets, if you know what I mean :-)Acoustics are so interesting and full of surprises.. Anyways.. hope you like it! - This video changed my flute life. My flute life started when I was about 15 hears old, already had decided that I would bevome a professional saxophone player later and thought it would be smart to double on flute for bigband and horn sections.. Somehow I was always struggling on flute but neither I nor the theachers I had throughout the years knew why I was so tensed during playing. Cramps in shouder, neck, arms, breathing problems, while never having problems on saxophone or clarinet. I only could play relaxed when laying on my back. When laying down jutting the jaw is very unnatural. It was was a mystery! Jutting the jaw means pushing the jaw forward, just as you do it (a bit) on saxophone to get the right embouchure on the mouthpiece. Watching this video only 2-3 years ago helped me to become a much better flute player. Thank you Jennifer Cluff for explaining! Read her blog
