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BTW if you want more views, it would not hurt to include your dog.

Your 100% correct on auxiliary instruments.l

Cool!

Trills!!!!!, no pinky, got it. ;)

Also wanted to add to this as a freelancer who plays multiple winds! Even if you don’t have the means to buy an auxiliary instrument, do not hesitate to get in contact with fellow freelancers in the area; see if they have one they’d be willing to loan/rent out to you for the gig! This can also serve as a way to show that you are able to play these instruments/ are willing to play these instruments even if you can’t afford to buy one! Especially with how expensive instruments have gotten in the last few years this is an amazing excuse to get in touch with your fellow freelancers.

I would love the name of the modern flute techniques workshop. What a necessary resource for all of us!

I wanted to say how much I appreciate your videos and valuable information about a freelance career. I am rather late to that game, but until I’m 6 feet under, I’m going for it! I was not a music major in college, but I was heavily involved in various school and community organizations. I moved across the country for grad school in a different field and didn’t pick up my flute for 25 years, until about four years ago. Live with the regret every single day! But now that I am trying to wind down my career and retire early from my day job in hopefully five more years (fingers crossed), music is where I want to focus my remaining viable career years. I do not expect to get an orchestral job by any means, but over the past four years, I have been working to network and get exposure to many different groups in the area in which I live (suburb of a major metropolitan city). I play in a community orchestra, flute choir, a summer band, several musicals a year, and have subbed with several other community groups in my area. My plan for differentiating myself is doubling on multiple instruments. I already play oboe, but I am learning saxophone, and soon clarinet. My favorite type of gig is pit orchestra, I love love love musicals and operas, so I know if I am able to double on multiple instruments, my chances of finding paying gigs are much higher. As well as chances of subbing in more prestigious local or regional orchestras on something other than flute.

Hi from Italy! I just started the piccolo for fun (no teacher) and I love watching your guides. Thanks for all your work❤

Thanks again! My previous professor told me this same exact thing after playing the Tchaik IV from your mug!! ❤ gotta brush up my chops though haha

Hi Julie, great video, am playing pic on Mambo soon. Can I ask your advice re pic solo in the Flying Theme from ET? How can I ensure it is legato without tonguing ?

Thanks for the video! This excerpt is on a competition for NFA 2025 :)

You know, there is something to being asked to be in a community orchestra as a freelancer. The people seem real, they want to be there, and it’s just a good time. While I support being a freelancer and making sure jobs are run well, (really shouldn’t have to hunt down our checks) there’s just a certain amount of “fun” in such groups.

Thank you for this!!

Great advise, thanks!

If you were to do a practice guide for for the piccolo part of flute 3/ picc for the last movement of Mahler 1, I can guarantee it would please at least one subscriber ;o) .

Fantastic ... Shostacovich and the piccolo - a special releationship 🤣- I like the piccolo-part from the 6th Symphonie!

Omg my high G is SO flat too

I used to play guitar live and would naturally get nervous before a show. I read somewhere that bananas could help calm you down because they have natural beta blocker like minerals in them. People called me the banana man cos id throw down about 3 before I'd get on stage. It really did work though. Maybe beta blockers would have been better and more effective though.

Hello! Thank you for the tip. Did you record the video on your phone? I have a question. When recording piccolo, is it best to play in a way that doesn’t make the listener’s ears too uncomfortable? So, is it better to play softer rather than going for the feeling of ff? And in the beginning, should the tonguing also be light?

This is such a great tutorial... really fun. You sound terrific as always.

This is excellent! A Needed dose of reality!

Honestly so awesome, im a clarinet player who doesnt even play piccolo (yet!) and your content is just so interesting

You are AMAZING! SO easy to follow, and your tips are super helpful💪🏼

I always loved hearing Williams' music as a kid... still do! You got your Keefe back! Sounds great as always...

Wow ... thank you! Great performance!

Fantastic! 👊♥️

This has been so, so helpful. I'm playing picc in the Bartok in a concert in a few weeks. Thank you very much🎵🎶🎵

Get a D-flat Piccolo and you can play the band version in G.

This was life changing!! Thank You! My least favorite note on the flute is F Sharp. Any tips?

Amazing!

Would you consider doing one of these for the orchestra version?

Wonderful video, thank you for your work! Would you consider talking about the piccolo final part of this movement too? It's a very tricky spot and it is usually requested in audition here in Europe. Thank you again🙏

My uncle Tony had a Polish Band! He played a lot of gigs in that kind of atmohere! I loved the accordions!

To brzmi jak dobra zabawa! 😂 I'm half Polish! 😊

An aside question..., what earplugs are you using?

I play in a community orchestra, and it's demoralizing when you see full grown adults behave like children. I guess age does not equal emotional maturity

It is crazy that people who have the high level positions have such low maturity/emotional intelligence.

That’s actually a C#. To play a D this is the keys to them LH3, LH4, TH, RH1, and RH2. Or also you can do the same fingerings just without the LH4 fingering. It could be either or.

How things have changed....sad in some ways.

As someone who has sensory issues, I can theoretically understand having a problem with a strong scent BUT I’m not going to do a sniff test on every person to point out the “witch” to be burned 🙄

Omg

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You are the street smart freelance independent musician we all admire.

I agree with you! We called them prima dona!

The story where the musician hijacked the piece by playing the solo ridiculously slow is hilarious 😹

It's always sad and a bit scary when someone is too flaky to be a musician...

Forget the theory’s, how good of a musician was he. You look like you’ve been playing long enough to know that musicians never get along anyway. John Nash was mentally ill but managed to come up with probable gaming theory. George Patton was nutty but was a decent poet and one of the greatest generals of his day. If Bach or Mozart were around today I’m not sure they wouldn’t have been labeled complete nuts. A lot of history is full of conspiracy theorists. Copernicus and his ridicules ideas about the sun being the center of the solar system. Or that Pythagoras guy who started a religion saying that you could talk to god using mathematics. I’d bet you consider yourself to be a non judgmental person. 🙄

That part is insane! Thankfully I'll never have to play it in amateur orchestra.

Fun fact - Louise Di Tullio who has over 1000 film credits as a principal flutist recording session musician in Los Angeles who has played for high-profile film composers including Alfred Newman, Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, Lalo Schifrin and of course John Williams has said that score of Hook, which Louise still mentions as the most challenging music she has ever performed and sight read during her long career a studio musician. “John Williams always pushes the limit of his orchestra with every new score,” said Louise, “keeping his players on the edge while creating a great sense of excitement.”

Never heard of this one, I'll have to look up a performance. I've been curious about this book so I might have to buy it. That sound clip.... lots going on there! Thanks!